Dads staying away from possible suit

THE city engineer of Dagupan City has laid it out plain and simple: It is illegal. But the public wonders why the construction continues unhampered.

The construction work at the former Magsaysay Park for a tourism park complex has been going on for about 60 days now without the required building permit and is, therefore, in violation of the National Building Code, City Engineer Virginia Rosario told The PUNCH.

Rosario said the MetroState Realty Corporation, the supposed winning bidder for the project, still has to comply with the requirement to submit the necessary documents despite repeated reminders from her office, to complete the processing of the company’s application for a building permit.
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LINGAYEN–Pangasinan’s new governor-elect Amado Espino Jr. considers his victory, which ended the 27-year rule of the Agbayani family, as “very sweet”.

“This is a very sweet victory for me. Together, we did what many thought was an impossible mission,” Espino told The PUNCH.

He expressed elation that the electorate supported his battlecry to have a real Pangasinense lead the province.

Espino, currently the congressional representative for the 3rd district, could have easily clinched a re-election bid for his third and final term but he chose to present himself as an alternative to the Agbayanis.
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Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., who was reelected as congressman for the Fourth District, is confident that the speakership of the House of Representatives is again in the bag for him.

In a phone interview on Thursday, De Venecia, who was in Manila, said he has received assurance from all political parties that coalesced with the administration of their overwhelming support for his fifth unprecedented term as Speaker when the 14th Congress opens in July.
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SAN CARLOS CITY—Thousands of people joined a two-kilometer long caravan that brought Mayor Julian Resuello to his final resting place on May 20 at his family-owned Holy Garden Memorial Park in barangay Agdao here.

The interment of the 54-year old Resuello patriarch was held after a holy mass at the St. Dominic Church, exactly three weeks after he succumbed to assassins’ bullets. His civilian security Eulogio Martinez was also killed.
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PROVINCE’S  FIRST  CONGRESSWOMAN

LINGAYEN–It was a close contest but the more aggressive and determined candidate eventually emerged victorious.

And that was Rachel Arenas, whose campaign in the third district of the province made her presence more felt and her more visible than all her three male opponents.

Arenas, who has become the first woman member of Congress from Pangasinan, was proclaimed by the Provincial Board of Canvassers on the night of May 19 despite a last-ditch effort by the camp of Gallant Soriano to stop it.
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ARENAS PROCLAIMED–Harvard-educated Rachel Arenas (center) is proclaimed by Provincial Elections Supervisor Reddy Balarbar and Schools Division Superintendent Armando Aquino while Provincial Prosecutor Segundino Ferrer smiles in approval. Also in photo is Rachel’s mother Rosemary ‘Baby Arenas. (Punchphoto by CSR)

PANGASINAN’s new 17 mayors will formally assume their posts on July 1 while 31 re-elected mayors are expected to continue what they started. 

In the First District, the new mayors are: Arthur Cabantac (Agno town), Marcelo Navarro Jr. (Bani), Noel Nacar (Dasol) and Carlitos Reyes (Mabini). Re-elected mayors are: Mayors Hernani Braganza (Alaminos City), Nestor Pulido (Anda), Alfonso Celeste (Bolinao), Domingo Doctor Jr. (Burgos), Ruperto Martinez (Infanta) and John Rodney Arcinue (Sual).
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PRIESTS should not turn into politicians.

This is the view of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, a former president of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, when asked to comment on the election of Fr. Ed Panlilio as governor of Pampanga.

Panlilio, running as an independent bet, trounced veteran politicians Lilia Pineda of Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino and incumbent Governor Mark Lapid of Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats.
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SAN CARLOS CITY—A priest from the St. Dominic Church here refers to the new mayor of San Carlos City as “Spiderman” a.k.a. Peter Parker, who, he said, inherited his web from his dead father.

Fr. Jaime Catungal said in his homily during a Holy Mass for the slain Mayor Julian Resuello that the dead Mayor is one of the heroes of San Carlos City.
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SAN CARLOS CITY–The campaign and the elections are over but the black propaganda lingers.

A defeated vice mayoralty candidate here has deplored the circulation of duplicated copies of  a propaganda material that was spread before the elections purportedly quoting him as saying that the ones who masterminded the slaying of Mayor Julian Resuello were Governor  Victor Agbayani and brothers Douglas and Gallant Soriano.
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