MAGSAYSAY PARK BID TWO weeks after the resolution was passed by the city council authorizing the project, Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez has exposed more loopholes in the controversial bidding for the development of a tourism building at the former Magsaysay Park to indicate a failed bidding. But this will still…
SAN FERNANDO CITY–The police have started its campaign against the resurgence of politicians’ private armies. Four persons, one of them a wanted man, were recently arrested and several high-powered firearms and ammunitions were seized in Pangasinan in connection with the preemptive moves against the emergence of private armed groups in…
DRIVERS and operators of public utility jeepneys in Pangasinan, who claimed to have been deprived of their income for years on account of the enforcement of traffic ordinances enacted in 2005 and 2002, have filed a civil case against Mayor Benjamin Lim and members of the city council. The case…
BAUTISTA–Three political bigwigs are expected to contest the gubernatorial seat in the May 14 elections, making it one of the hottest political battles to watch. Those who signified intent to run as Pangasinan governor include Second district Rep. Amado Espino Jr, Vice Governor Oscar Lambino, and Dr. Jamie Eloise Agbayani…
‘TIS now the time for political manifestos to serve political agendas. The first such manifesto was signed by twenty-five barangay chairmen of Dagupan City seeking a status quo for Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., Mayor Benjamin Lim and Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez in a bid “to preserve political unity” in…
DOMALANDAN BRIDGE INAUGURATION—President Gloria Arroyo waves to the crowd as she is driven through the newly-opened 600-meter long Domalandan Bridge in Lingayen, along with Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., Governor Victor Agbayani, Congressman Amado Espino Jr. and Lingayen Mayor Ernesto Castañeda. – (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
STATUS QUO IN 4TH DISTRICT? —Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. meets Dagupan City barangay chairmen led by Guillermo Vallejos who handed him a resolution calling for a status quo among the Speaker, Mayor Benjamin Lim and Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez. Listening in is Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. – (Punchphoto…
ELECTION PERIOD KICKS OFF JAN. 14 THREE towns and one city in Pangasinan have been tagged by the Provincial Elections Office this early as possible hot spots in the May national and local elections with the possibility that one of those towns could be placed under Commission on Elections (Comelec)…
VICE Mayor Alvin Fernandez still insists that a re-bidding be conducted on the Magsaysay Park project to clear all questions surrounding the earlier bidding and erase all doubts over the legality and qualification of the winning bidder. He made the call anew in his website posted on Friday even if…
A government employee who invoked a bureaucratic administrative policy before doing his job has found himself charged instead with insubordination. Dr. Benjamin Marcial Bautista, a rural health physician and a medico-legal has been slapped with an administrative case of insubordination after he refused to conduct an autopsy on the three…
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