P15K PENALTY PLUS IMPOUNDING OF UNITS THE regional office of the Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board confirmed that only 1,500 public utility vehicles in Region I secured copies of the updated fare matrix that give them authority to implement the fare hike starting October 3. According to Atty. Anabel…

DAGUPAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND MESS FIFTEEN ‘flying’ or non-resident scholars and eight ‘ghost’ scholars of the past Lim administration were initially discovered by the new Dagupan City Scholarship Committee chaired by Mayor Belen Fernandez in its investigation of unqualified scholars so far from 14 of the 31 barangays of Dagupan City…

ONLY 5 HECTARES CAN BE RETAINED IN AWAI LAND ONLY five hectares of the more than 29 hectare property located in Barangays Awai and Labney (Bolo), San Jacinto, bought by Dagupan City in April 2002 for P16 million will  be retained by the city, with the rest of the property…

DAGUPAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM THE registration of scholars who are not residents in the city and “ghost scholars” with fake names by the past Dagupan City administration cost the city government an estimated P8 million which otherwise could have been granted to bona fide scholars from Dagupan. This was revealed by…

PERMITS ISSUED BY LIM ADMINISTRATION THE huge illegal fish pens that were removed and demolished painstakingly over a four- year period by then Mayor Belen Fernandez before 2019 were restored during the Brian Lim administration and fully operating in violation of the city’s fishery code that allows only fish cages,…

DISCOVERY OF P2.5-B WORTH OF SHABU THE police and the barangays should work more closely to prevent another operation of the P2.5 billion worth of shabu weighing 360 kilograms being distributed by a drug  syndicate in Pangasinan. The raid and seizure in Pozorrubio was a lesson learned, said P/Colonel Jeff…

CITY WANTS CUNA TO RETURN P16-M PAYMENT THE Dagupan City government has lost all its claims to the 29,892-hectare landholding in Barangay Awai in San Jacinto town despite its payment of P16,120,000 to seller Jose Mariano Cuna on April 11, 2002, ostensibly for the construction of a sanitary landfill for…

THE Office of the Provincial Prosecutors filed charges against four suspects arrested in the P2.5 billion drug buy-bust in Pozorrubio town on August 12 before the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 46 in Urdaneta City, in a sworn complaint filed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Violations of Sections…

BIGGEST DRUG HAUL IN REGION 1 SOME P2.5 billion pesos worth of suspected shabu were seized in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pozorrubio on Friday, August 12, where four persons, one of them a Chinese national, were arrested. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva,…

ONE OF PHILIPPINES’ BEST THE national flag in all government offices and schools in Pangasinan were flown at half-mast as a sign of mourning for the demise of former President Fidel V. Ramos. Governor Ramon Guico III issued Executive Order (EO) No. 0109 on July 31 mandating the Philippine flag to…