LINGAYEN – The dreaded dengue hemorrhagic fever has already claimed nine lives in different towns and cities in this province since July to date. Records of the Provincial Health Office showed there were three fatalities, one each in the towns of Basista, Sison and Alaminos City in the month of…
When it rains, it certainly pours for the Dagupan City government. THE cash-strapped city government has had to shelve its reorganization plan owing to lack of funds but its problems are still far from over because its employees are now requesting the payment of their additional compensation (adcom) allowance due…
WHO KNOWS BETTER? – Ramon Versa (right), chief of operations and control of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), maintains previous statement before the Sangguning Panlungsod of Dagupan that 20 per cent of the water being released downstream of the Agno river from the dam’s spillways goes out through a…
Is it possible that officials of the San Roque Power Corporation that manages the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project don’t really know much about its operations? This became evident when two of its key officials issued contradicting statements about the direction of water spilled downstream from the dam when the latter’s…
THE police and the barangay captains in Dagupan City vehemently denied that jueteng has resumed operations in the city just like the rest of Pangasinan. Supt. Edgar Basbas, police chief here, branded as ridiculous the accusation leveled against his office that it is tolerating jueteng operation and maintained that there…
By Analiza Q. Leyba FOR TAX ASSESSMENT ON POLES City brass say: “We will win” THE Dagupan Electric Corporation has filed a civil case against the Dagupan city government protesting the latter’s demand for P4.5 million in assessed real property taxes for its 6,417 electric posts all over the city….
THE cash-strapped Dagupan City government is poised to avail of another P25 million loan from the Land Bank of the Philippines chargeable to its Internal Revenue Allotment from 2000 to 2001 due from the national government. This was gleaned from a resolution passed by the city council during its special…
TEMPORARY TRUCE FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION – Gov. Victor Agbayani (third from right) and Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. (extreme right) goad Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim to shake hands when the two met during the groundbreaking rite for the new Pantal bridge with Japanese…
IS reconciliation now in the offing for House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and Mayor Benjamin Lim of Dagupan City? This possibility arose when both politicians finally came face-to-face Wednesday during the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Pantal bridge presided over by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The crowd at the ceremony…
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led dignitaries and local officials last Wednesday at the groundbreaking ceremony for the P903 million Pantal bridge and thanked the Japanese government for making the project possible by bankrolling it. The President was joined by Japanese Ambassador Ryuchiro Yamazaki, Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and Public Works…
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