WITH its annual debt service reaching P60 million a year, Dagupan will seek to restructure its more than P300 million loan with the Land Bank of the Philippines this year. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said a restructuring will enable the city to pay its obligations without compromising its services to…
The Dagupan City council approved in its special session on Monday a P427.5 million budget for Dagupan in 2008. The approved budget is P52 million higher than the P375 million budget last year. Stressing that the budget is realizable, Councilor Danilo Torio, chair of the committee on finance and appropriations,…
TO the relief of city workers, the owners of the remaining old and unsightly picnic sheds at Tondaligan Park in Bonuan Gueset offered no resistance when the deadline for their demolition lapsed. Councilmen Eddie de Vera and Roger Ceralde said owners of the sheds voluntarily tore down their sheds and…
VILLASIS–Talong (eggplant), the main produce of this town known as the Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan, takes center stage on January 18, the annual fiesta celebration highlighted by the Talong Festival. Mayor Nonato Abrenica said the people in their town will once again take the streets for the street dancing, cookfest,…
BEACH LAND NOT FOR SALE — Members of the Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement install a billboard warning the public that the beach land is neither for sale, rent, and lease nor for settlement. The move is part of the city government’s bid to stop the reported…
THE VETERANS’ ANGEL —Governor Amado Espino Jr. presents a plaque of recognition to Ms. Alma Quintans Kern, chairman of the Federation of Filipino-American Associations, for her efforts in the U.S. to promote the interests of Filipino veterans while former President Fidel Ramos offers his congratulations. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TEXT MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG ARREST SAN CARLOS CITY– The mayor of this city branded as “malicious and vicious intrigues”the text messages that circulated in the city and among local newsmen that he was allegedly intercepted and arrested in Baguio City on Dec. 31 for illegal drugs. Their intrigues against me…
THE city government has finally acquired clean titles covering the lots on which the former MC Adore Hotel stands. According to City Legal Officer George Mejia. all the four titles of the lots in question have already been registered in the name of Dagupan City before the city’s Register of…
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union–Despite the still unsolved gunslaying of two mayors and one vice mayor in the Ilocos Region in 2007, the regional police still considers last year as one of its shining moments. Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil, police regional director of Region 1, told local newsmen that despite the…
ALAMINOS CITY–Taking the ferry service plan a step further, a technical working group has been formed to look into the implementation of the public water transport system between this city, Dagupan and San Fernando City in La Union. Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza said he and the mayors of Dagupan and…
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