“A TRIUMPH in the fight against jueteng.” This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, chair of the Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng (People’s Crusade Against Jueteng), described the plunder conviction of former President Joseph Estrada. “(The guilty sentence) is an omen that jueteng is a curse Jueteng undermines not…
LINGAYEN–Team Sual Corporation finally settled its overdue taxes due the provincial government amounting to P160.8 million for the real estate taxes owed by the Sual Coal Fired Power Thermal Plant’s (SCFPTP) for the period January 1, 2006 to December, 2007. Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and Team Sual Corporation president Federico…
THE city government believes it has scored two successive rounds of victories in the civil case filed by MetroState Realty Corporation against City Engineer Virginia Rosario, although a crucial third round is still ahead. “You’ve heard it. The lawyer for the plaintiff withdrew the application for injunction,” said City Legal…
SAN FERNANDO CITY–Various hotel, resort and restaurant associations in the Ilocos region have asked newly appointed Land Transportation Office (LTO) director-general Arturo Lomibao to help make tourism a top industry of the country. The group’s spokesman, Bert Bautista, president of the La Union Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Association (LUHRRA), said…
MOA FOR MORE SECURITY—Governor Amado Espino Jr. (center), P/Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil, Ilocos Region Police Director (2nd from left) and Army Major General Juanito Gomez, commanding general of the 7th Infantry Division (2nd from right), sign a memorandum of agreement to intensify internal security operations in the province. Also in…
FORMER CITY ADMINISTRATION’S SNAFU Late archbishop filed adverse claims in 1981 P50 MILLION of city funds for nothing? The city government is now facing legal hurdles for the titling and use of the former MC Adore Hotel, which the Lim administration purchased from the Privatization Management Office (PMO) for P50…
BINALONAN–The mayors’ house is divided. Half of the 1,500 municipal mayors in the country favor pushing through with the scheduled Oct. 29 barangay election, according to the president of League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP). This town’s mayor, Ramon Guico, Jr., president of the influential LMP, said those who…
The University of Pangasinan (UPang) has sustained its record as the top producer of nurses in northern Luzon with 299 passers in the latest Licensure Board Examinations for Nurses. A jubilant Dr. Catalino Rivera Jr., UPANG president, said “it is on record that UPang produces the biggest number of nurses…
SAN CARLOS CITY–They lost miserably the first time around and now they want to salvage whatever was left of their tattered reputation inside the basketball court, that is. The city officials, headed by Mayor Julier Resuello and his younger brother, Vice Mayor Joseres Resuello, are calling for a rematch this…
URBIZTONDO–Political harassment is behind the accusations of malversation against her, said Loida Cancino, municipal treasurer of this town for 11 years. “I am ready to face any investigation to clear my name because I know I am not guilty,” a tearful Cancino told The PUNCH in an interview. Cancino also…
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