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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By VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
PIA-Dagupan Infocenter
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue in Region I is the nationwide topnotcher in collection, percentage- wise, a top BIR official revealed.
A total collection of P5,054,409,851.41 from the region’s six revenue district offices as of September 29, 2006 surpassed its P4 billion collection goal—or an equivalent of 50,12% increase. It was enough to land the region in first place in collection of performance.
BIR Regional Director Alfredo Balicanta, speaking at the weekly Patrima Kapihan held at the Philippine Information Agency office last Thursday and aired over DZMQ Radyo ng Bayan Dagupan, was overjoyed with the feat and attributes the success to all the taxpayers in the region.
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BEFORE it becomes another big national issue swept under the rug, the criminal offense of those who leaked the Nursing board exam questions must be met with an equal, if not higher resolve, by government to punish the guilty.
By guilty, we mean not the thousands of examinees who may or may not have used and benefited from the leakage but the very authorities, in or out of government, who first passed or kicked the dirty ball down the line.
The past weeks when concerned agencies including the Senate began investigating the examination scandal, with a star witness confronting the head of a review center supposedly involved in the leakage and vice versa, televiewers were treated to the spectacle of arrogance and mocking stance –pouting mouth, smirks, wry smiles and all — coming from the fingered review center official.
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By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
EASILY the most interesting congressional district political fight, and you can ask any hard-nosed media practitioners about this, is the third district derby amongst the heir-hopefuls of “graduating” Rep. Gener Tulagan.
Already, guts-and-glitter personalities like Rachel Arenas, daughter of ultra-popular socialite Rosemarie ‘Baby” Arenas; top Customs official and scion of a great political clan in San Carlos, Gallant D. Soriano; veteran local government executive Leo “Boy’de Vera; Gener’s own son, Jun Tulagan and retired police general Rey Velasco are kicking up their own political dust with each day that passes.
With the protagonists all known allies, friends or supporters of Undersecretary Antonio “Bebot” Villar, Jr., founder (chairman-emeritus?) of the newest local political party, Biskeg-Pangasinan, it’s anybody guess whose coin the Sto. Tomas fountain will eventually bless.
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