NIGHT club and bar owners in Dagupan need not worry about the newly-passed city council ordinance authored by Councilor Farah Decano if they are not peddling sex. Councilor Decano clarified that Ordinance No. 0032, which provides supplementary measures against flesh trade in the city, strictly punishes only those who are…

THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has turned down the request of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that it be allowed to title the land that its office buildings are occupying at Tondaligan Park under its name. Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez said although the letter from the BSP was endorsed by…

The official pressure is on. Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) presiding officer Alvin Fernandez said the city council has already received a letter from the Office of the City Mayor demanding for the passage of the resolution authorizing Mayor Benjamin Lim to enter into a contract with MetroState Realty…

LINGAYEN– Provincial Administrator Virgilio  Solis has stressed that the relief of Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima is not politically motivated and is simply part of the Philippine National Philippine’s (PNP) policy of limiting police officers’ term of service in one area to just two years.        Meanwhile, Purisima…

ALAMINOS CITY—Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero, a member of the senatorial ticket under the United Opposition, played ninong (godfather) to 160 couples who tied the knot on Valentine’s Day in a mass civil wedding ceremony in Lucap, the jump off point to the Hundred Islands. Mayor Hernani Braganza, who invited Escudero,…

A total of P662.7 million worth of infrastructure projects were built in the 4th congressional district of Pangasinan from 2001 to 2006 thru the initiative of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. A report released by Engr. Rodolfo Dion of the Second Highway Engineering District showed   that Dagupan City got…

ALAMINOS MAYOR NO LONGER SEEKING RE-ELECTION Frustrated over state of national affairs ALAMINOS CITY–“Wala na (no more). I’m done.” Thus said a visibly frustrated Mayor Hernani Braganza, who has been in politics for 25 years, over what he describes as the “terrible” state of political affairs in the country. Braganza…

WHERE is the contract that gives JDL Motor Service of barangay Sta. Maria, San Jacinto the right to tow vehicles violating the “no parking zone” in Dagupan City? This question cropped up after senior officials of the city government, in separate talks before the city council, revealed they have never…

THANKS but no thanks. This was the response of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, a son of Dagupan City, to reports that he is being considered as one of the top choices for the administration’s senatorial line up in the coming May elections. “I really have no desire to run…