Gilon-gilon Street Dancing and Kalutan ed Dalan are big hits

Posted on May 5, 2013 - Filed Under News, People & Events | Leave a Comment

2013 BANGUS FESTIVAL APRIL 30 was a day of fun and merriment in Dagupan City with over one million guests and Dagupeños filling the streets of the downtown area to take part in the Kalutan ed Dalan, the culmination and signature event of the Bangus Festival. More than 800 grills lined the AB Fernandez Avenue [...]

2010-2012 Bangus Festival funds still unliquidated

Posted on April 15, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

BESIDES REFUSING TO REMIT PROCEEDS CITY Hall is bannering that all is set for the 2013 Bangus Festival but funds spent for the past two years are still unaccounted for. The Dagupan City Accounting Office has admitted to The PUNCH that while there were financial reports submitted by past Bangus Festival Executive committees, these were [...]

Punchline

Posted on February 25, 2013 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Comments Off

No clarificatory order needed By Ermin Garcia Jr. IN case you haven’t noticed, we are finally seeing glowing reports of successful and seemingly determined efforts to finally clean and clear in Dagupan City of shabu trading. No thanks to Mayor Benjie Lim who tolerated the illegal trading for the longest time to a point where [...]

ABF Avenue rehab starts this month

Posted on February 24, 2013 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Comments Off

  OFFICIALS of Dagupan City, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and business owners have agreed in a meeting last February 19 to commence the rehabilitation of the Angel B. Fernandez Avenue not later than March 2. The first phase of the project covers the construction of two lanes extending from the City [...]

Libunao: What San Fabian-Dagupan merger?

Posted on February 10, 2013 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Comments Off

LINGAYEN—Fourth District Board Member Mojamito Libunao believes the proposal of Mayor Benjamin Lim to merge Dagupan and San Fabian is too vague and consequently too complicated to pursue. Libunao pointed out that “Dagupan City is a creation of Congress through Republic Act 147 while San Fabian is a creation of a body under the Autonomy Code [...]

Lim faces contempt

Posted on February 3, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off

OVER MC ADORE SALE  IT MAY still be premature for Mayor Benjamin Lim to rejoice over the controversial sale of MC Adore and the reported full payment by the buyer last January 28. Lawyer Borromeo Bustamante, representing his client Ryan Ravanzo, secretary of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, has filed a motion on the same day to [...]

Who says MC Adore is only P119 million?

Posted on February 3, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off

DOCUMENTS obtained by The PUNCH show that market value of the MC Adore real properties is much higher than what the Lim administration established as minimum bid price if the price of a lot not too far from the MC Adore Hotel is owned and sold by Mayor Benjamin Lim and his wife Celia were [...]

City assures new transfer site for MC Adore vendors

Posted on January 27, 2013 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Comments Off

EVEN as the legality of the MC Adore sale has yet to be decided with finality by the court, the administration of Mayor Benjamin Lim is already assuring vendors in the area of a relocation site for their businesses. City Administrator Vlad Mata announced that on or before February 7, the date for the supposed [...]

MC Adore court case far from over

Posted on January 20, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off

WHO says that the case filed against city officials led by Mayor Benjamin Lim on the sale of the MC Adore property is over and that the subsequent bidding and selling is legal and binding? Not Regional Trial Court Judge Emma Torio, acting judge of Branch 42. Proving that nothing is over, Torio held a [...]

RTC denies city hall’s motion

Posted on January 20, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off

LNU’S TAX EXEMPTION THE LIM administration suffered a new legal setback when its motion for reconsideration on the decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in favor of Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU), under petitioner Educational and Medical Development Corporation, over business taxes being collected from the latter was denied by the court. In a resolution [...]

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