FULFILLING A PROMISE—Sen Alan Peter Cayetano gestures as he engages members of the Lucao Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association, led by Panting Busel, in a dialogue on how their daily earnings can increase with the group’s own micro-financing project. The senator, who was in Dagupan during the 2013 campaign, turned over a P100,000 check as seed money for the association’s lending activity, a major component  of  the senator’s Presyo-Trabaho-Kita-Kaayusan Program, in an effort to wean them from the old practice of 5-6 lending. The dialogue was attended by City Administrator Farah Decano, representing Mayor Belen Fernandez. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)

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