ALL TERMINATED BY 7 CITY COUNCILORS –The Monday flag ceremony is besieged by more than 700 city hall employees not terminated with cause but by the annual budget approved by the 7 councilors in the majority that deleted their salaries and allowances effective April 1. (CIO photo by Dave Paragas)
“IPAGLALABAN natin ang ating budget, ipaglalaban natin ang budget ng bawat departamento, ipaglalaban natin na maibalik kayo sa serbisyo.” This was the assurance of the defiant Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez when she spoke before the lightning indignation rally led by the more than 700 laid off workers and personnel…
FOR rejecting the Annual Investment Program (AIP) submitted by the city executive, the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan City committed a serious violation of the law and for ignorance of the law. This was underscored by City Legal Officer Aurora Valle who said the AIP is a plan of the city executive or…
THE seven councilors that comprise the majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod and voted to pass the P864.91 million as annual budget for the city government committed flagrant violation of the Constitution when it withdrew P660,000 fund earmarked for the Commission on Audit (COA) office stationed in the city. Luz de Guzman,…
By Leonardo Micua THE seven-man Sanggunian Panlungsod majority assumed the rule of an executioner by chopping off the heads of over 700 job order employees and denied hundreds of frontliners of their monthly allowances, and literally grounding the public service in the city of Dagupan to a halt. For…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IS there life after death? Some believe that after death, the essential part of an individual’s stream of consciousness or identity continues to live, a belief that derives itself from various religions, esotericism and metaphysics. What lives after the physical body expires depends on which belief…
By Farah G. Decano WHO is Claudia Procula? What was her participation in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? Claudia was the stepdaughter of Emperor Tiberius, and her hand was given in marriage by the latter to the very ambitious Pontius Pilate. Although their marital union was merely arranged, Claudia,…
By Eva C. Visperas YES, don’t be surprised if you see an all-white exterior of Capitol Building in Lingayen, the seat of provincial government power, in your next visit. As of this writing, its repainting is almost done. Truth is, before Gov. Monmon Guico delivered his State of the…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M making this piece prematurely, April 4, because of the seven-day (April 2-9) Lenten season break. So, I believe that you, my co-basketball aficionados had already watched on TV the April 9 (Easter Sunday) first game of the best-of-seven series of this year PBA’s Governors’…
INDIGNATION RALLY VS. ANTI-POOR BUDGET WHAT was supposed to be a simple flag-raising ceremony last April 3 turned out to an indignation rally led by many of the more than 700 job order employees who were laid off because the seven majority councilors in the Sanggunian Panlungsod did not provide…
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