STA. MARIA – an extortionist posing as a member of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed during a shootout in an entrapment set by policemen here Thursday night.
The dead man was identified through a card found in his wallet as Melchor Pagco, 25, purportedly a native of barangay Bayaoas, Urdaneta City. A verification with the Urdaneta City police on Friday however showed that name is non-existent.
Senior Inspector Arthur Amin, Sta. Maria chief of police, said the suspect together with his cohorts on a van and four motorcycles, were to pick up P100,000 which they demanded as alleged revolutionary tax from one Rodolfo Calpo,owner of Carruar gasoline station in Sta. Maria.
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UNWRAPPING a little silver lining in its reported tight fiscal position as reported the past month, the city government announced that collection from various taxes and fees increased by 8% for the period of January to August, this year, compared with the same period last year.
Based on the comparative revenues and receipts report from the city treasurer’s office, the accumulated collection so far this year amounts to P260,321,580 compared with last year’s P241,711,256 or an increase of P18,610,323.
This already includes the city’s share in the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) which amounts to P111,853,192.
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FIVE pedestrian overpasses will be up in Dagupan City to ensure safety of people crossing the streets and help ease the flow of vehicular traffic along various highways here, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways District Engineer Rodolfo Dion.
All these projects will be funded from the countrywide development fund of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., congressman of the Fourth District of Pangasinan.
Dion said his office already received as initial P3 million from the Department of Budget and Management to finance the construction of the first of these overpasses located near the Dagupan City National High School along the busy Dagupan-Binmaley-Lingayen road.
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HOUSE Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. has announced that the new 600-meter long Domalandan bridge is now nearing completion and hopefully, to be inaugurated by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the town fiesta of Lingayen January 9 next year.
The Domalandan bridge spans the Limahong channel in Lingayen that empties into the Lingayen Gulf and is a vital link between the central and western parts of the province as it cuts travel time by about 30 minutes, compared to the old road via Bugallon.
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THE first Medical Herbal Garden in northern Luzon, if not in the entire country, is now rising on a three-hectare lot in barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.
Dr. Jesus Canto chief of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC), said the herbal garden is located in the long abandoned Teodora Manaois Hospital, a former extension hospital of R1MC, which was previously known as the Gov. Teofilo Sison Provincial Hospital (GTSPH).
The lot was once reoccupied when the main building of GTSPH on Arellano street here was devastated by a 7.6 earthquake that rocked northern Luzon on July 16,1990.
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REPORTING of fire incidents and inquiry about fire incidents in Dagupan City are now just a text message away with the recent launching of the program, “Text Fire Dagupan”.
/Insp. Armando Fernandez said that the program is an initiative of the PANDA volunteer fire brigade in the Philippines in coordination with Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) national office.
Fernandez said that Dagupan was lucky to have been chosen one of the five areas that can access this kind of service. Other areas are Metro Manila, Davao, Cebu and Iloilo. Read the rest of this entry »
LINGAYEN – A new commercial center was created for businessmen to take advantage of with the concreting by the Department of Public Works and Highways of a five-kilometer diversion road from Binmaley to Lingayen at Barangay Matalava.
The bonanza will be a boon to Lingayen andBinmaley which share the diversion road, half of which has already been concreted, said DPWH District Engineer Rodolfo Dion.
Dion said, half of the entire stretch belonging to the town of Lingayen, was already completed at a cost of P16 million while the other half, located in Binmaley, is awaiting a budget of P15 million.
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