THE head of the city’s budget office expressed serious doubts that the planned reorganization of the city government can be implemented this year. City Budget Officer Ildelfonso Calimlim told the PUNCH that to date, the city has only P50 million left in the city coffer allocated for other purposes and…

MANGALDAN – Will Citizen Arturo Lomibao run for governor in 2007 elections? This rumored scenario suddenly became a distinct possibility after the former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General discussed his future with members of local media. What he quickly denied was the rumor that he is being groomed…

Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim may face administrative sanctions from the Department of Interior and Local Government for failing to perform his mandated duties as city mayor as provided in the Local Government Code.   Mayor Lim has failed to submit his legislative agenda at the beginning of each year, the…

URDANETA CITY – The first phase of “Oplan Green Philippine Highways” of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has been launched. For region 1, the program launched last Thursday will seek to green the sides of about 411 kilometers of paved roads passing through the four provinces in…

FEATHERS IN THE CAP Lyceum Northwestern too has 3 in ‘Top Ten’ The University of Pangasinan did it, and so did the Lyceum Northwestern University!!   UPANG nursing graduate, Gringo de Guzman San Diego topped the Nursing Licensure examination given last June while his classmate Felipe Sotelo took the 8th place…

MANGALDAN– “I can’t really explain how I feel. I’m really happy,” exclaimed 20-year old Gringo de Guzman Sandiego of barangay Amansabina this town upon learning he topped the recent Nursing board examination with 83.2 percent rating. Sandiego, a cum laude graduate of the University of Pangasinan in Dagupan City, said…

LABRADOR – Unsuspecting Dagupan residents in some barangays can fall victims to ground electrocution if the theft of electric cables is not stopped. Consequently, the Dagupan Electric Corporation has frantically sought the help of authorities in all its areas of coverage to arrest the continuing rampant theft of its ground…

WORKERS in the Ilocos region will receive adjustments in basic pay level and a P3-13 increase in daily wage, or a total of P25 increase effectively. Wage Order No. 11 issued by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board for Region I last July 14 will increase basic pay level…

TAYUG – After being sanctioned for the clandestine operation of a dumpsite, the municipal government has initiated a move to construct a common sanitary landfill to serve Tayug and the neighboring towns of San Nicolas and Natividad. Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili said he already proposed two possible sites for the…

16 YEARS AFTER 1990 QUAKE DAGUPAN City, devastated by a strong 7.7 magnitude in Richter scale earthquake in 1990, appears to be “one of the most prepared among the most disaster-prone cities of Pangasinan”. This was the observation of the assistant regional director of the Office of Civil Defense, Melchito…