APPARENTLY feeling the case against illegal squatters and claimants of foreshorelands in Bonuan are now sufficiently documented by the sangguniang panlungsod, City Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez has chosen to confront the main agency where the problem had started – the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Fernandez late last week asked DENR regional, provincial and city offices to cancel all the certificates they issued to numerous persons and entities attesting that certain portions of land near the Lingayen Gulf were “alienable” and “disposable”.
Thru a letter, the vice mayor took to task the DENR for unlawfully issuing thru its regional and field offices such certificates to persons or entities who used the same in securing Tax Declaration Certificates (TDC) from the City Assessors Office here.
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By LIWAY M. YPARRAGUIRRE
P/Star Associate Editor
LINGAYEN –Pangasinan Governor Victor E. Agbayani delivered last Friday his ninth state of the province address, his last report to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan before bowing out by June, this year on his final term..
“It has been a remarkable journey, an extraordinary time of challenge and victory, a God-given opportunity to serve our fellowmen,” Agbayani described his full-term service to the province.
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By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
HIS white hair and small frame notwithstanding, Ruel C. Camba, provincial information officer, was a picture of confidence facing his colleagues in media and acquitting himself well as de facto spokesman-defender of the Agbayanis (at least, Governor Victor and wife Jamie) during last Thursday’s Patrima Kapihan at Masarap grill at Magiclub on Guilig Street.
His long years of service under Victor Agbayani’s wings (and despite controversies he’s found himself in during his early PIO stints) has apparently honed him into the creditable answering machine of the Agbayani administration, next perhaps in wit and coolness to Boy Solis himself, the provincial administrator – and after the par excellence performance of former Provincial Legal Counsel Dindin Baniqued (who’s now Mayor BSL’s legal beagle) when she was still Urduja’s most visible functionary years back).
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By ;LIWAY C. MANANTAN-YPARRAGUIRRE
POLICE Regional Director, Chief Supt. Leopoldo N. Bataoil announced in an interview last Friday that Police Regional Office 1 (PRO-1) was adjudged as the best police regional office nationwide.
Bataoil attended the State of the Province Address of Gov. Victor E. Agbayani.
“I’d like to make it clear that it was a product of dedication, sacrifice and outstanding performance of our policemen on the ground. We, officers, just highlighted their accomplishments, ipinaramdam namin sa national headquarters that our officers and men on the ground deserved to be recognized.” Read the rest of this entry »
By DANNY O. SAGUN
A NEW City Hall employee reported for work the first time last Wednesday. He is Mark Brian, the son of Mayor Benjie S. Lim, who is appointed his chief of staff. For what specific purpose, we really do not know. He does not need a job like that in government. The family runs an enterprise where the young Lim can better hone his managerial or entrepreneurial skills.
There must be reason why he was suddenly placed there. Perhaps, he is being readied to take over his father in case the latter seeks another position. Yes, it has been floated lately that Brian would run for mayor since the father is seeking to return to his old position as congressman instead.
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HOUSE Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. is seeking approval of a historic bill that will grant State subsidy to existing political parties as a means of substantially reducing and eventually eliminating corruption in the country’s political system.
Talking to local reporters at his residence in the city, de Venecia said the Political Party Reform Bill that he filed seeks to modernize the Philippine political system by getting government to subsidize existing political parties for the first time.
De Venecia said that the proposed measure, also called Campaign Finance Reform Bill, aims to reduce, among others money politics in the Philippines and the intervention of undesirable elements, such as gambling lords and drug lords, in national politics. Read the rest of this entry »
THE leader of a notorious kidnap-for-ransom (KFR) gang operating in Metro Manila, Cebu and Mindanao with a P300,000 prize on his head, dead or alive, was arrested on Wednesday at a beach resort in Bolinao town while on a picnic with members of his family and friends.
The suspect, identified as Jessie Pepino, alias “James Villacorta” was tagged as the leader and negotiator of the Pepino Kidnap-for-Ransom (KFR) Gang based in Metro Manila
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ALAMINOS CITY – City Mayor Hernani Braganza called the dramatic suicide by an arrested pedophile suspect, a German national, in his jail cell at the National Bureau of Investigation, an act of conscience.
Uwe Krause, 54, a retired construction foreman in Germany who stayed in this city in western Pangasinan secretly doing his illegal and lewd activity, was apparently bothered by his conscience, Braganza said.
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HOUSE Speaker Jose C. de Venecia, Jr. said his proposal for Global Debt- for-Equity program, approved by theGeneral Assembly of the United Nations and the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Cebu, will have a big impact on the Philippines and 101 other countries of the world.
De Venecia said here Saturday that under the proposal, 50 per cent of the total debts of the Philippines and those of other heavily indebted countries totaling US 2.3 trillion dollars would be converted into equity in mass housing, food production, reforestation, irrigation, clean water, education , anti-AIDS, health care, and others.
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