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                    [Title] => Ex-DPWH chief faces graft raps
                    [Summary] => Former Department of Public Works and Highways officer-in-charge Florante Soriquez and two other officials were accused yesterday of graft before the Office of the Ombudsman for "wasting" P9 billion earmarked for the construction of bridges nationwide. 


Charged with Soriquez were Emil Sadain, Philippine Bridge Program executive director, and Kagim Jajurie, Tulay ng Pangulo sa SZOPAD (Special Zone for Peace and Development) Mindanao project director.


Several other unidentified persons have been charged with them.


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                    [Title] => Dagupan City government bought landfill lot without dads’ okay?
                    [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — The city government purchased a controversial 30-hectare land in San Jacinto town which it plans to develop into a sanitary landfill, last April 12, allegedly without any authority and appropriation from the city council, a local paper said.


The Sunday Punch, published by Ermin Garcia Jr., said it got a photocopy of the disbursement voucher from the city treasurer’s office which showed that the amount of P11,780,441.28 was released to Jose Mariano Cuña, owner of the property in Barangay Awai, San Jacinto.


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                    [Title] => Another ‘stinking deal’ in Dagupan?
                    [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — A local newspaper publisher exposed what it claimed was another "stinking deal" of the city government involving a P2.5-million garbage collection contract. The mayor, however, said there was "nothing anomalous" in the deal.


Ermin Garcia Jr., publisher of The Sunday Punch, said the city council unanimously ratified last Monday the contract which Mayor Benjamin Lim entered into with I-Clean, owned by one Charlie Go, for the collection of garbage in 11 barangays, instead of 16, for a period of three months, instead of five.


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                    [Title] => Pangasinan town thumbs down Dagupan landfill plan
                    [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Earlier exposed as a "stinking deal," this city’s landfill plan now appears headed to the garbage.


This, after the municipal council of San Jacinto, where the city government intended to purchase a property for the landfill, passed a resolution last Monday rejecting the project.


The San Jacinto council backed the opposition of residents of Barangay Awai, where the property is located, to the proposed landfill.


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                    [Title] => Dagupan mayor suspends negotiations for landfill site
                    [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Mayor Benjamin Lim announced yesterday that he was suspending the negotiations for the controversial purchase of a property in nearby San Jacinto town for a planned landfill.
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                    [Title] => De Venecia to run anew for Congress
                    [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Former House Speaker Jose de Venecia is staging a comeback this May when he runs anew for congressman of Pangasinan’s fourth district.


And he vows to get the country’s fourth highest post — the House speakership — back.


De Venecia told reporters here that he has informed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of his plans.


"Our agreement from the very beginning is that I will run for Congress and then I will run for Speaker again," he said.


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                    [Title] => Ex-Manila Times publisher to run for Dagupan mayor
                    [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Former Manila Times  publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. confirmed reports about his desire to seek this city’s mayoralty post in the May 2001 elections.


Garcia is the son of slain newsman Ermin Garcia Sr., publisher of the local weekly paper The Sunday Punch. When his father was shot dead inside his office on AB Fernandez Avenue here in 1965 after he exposed payroll padding in the provincial government, the young Ermin, then only 20, took over the newspaper as publisher, a position he holds until now.


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ERMIN GARCIA JR.

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Charged with Soriquez were Emil Sadain, Philippine Bridge Program executive director, and Kagim Jajurie, Tulay ng Pangulo sa SZOPAD (Special Zone for Peace and Development) Mindanao project director.


Several other unidentified persons have been charged with them.


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The Sunday Punch, published by Ermin Garcia Jr., said it got a photocopy of the disbursement voucher from the city treasurer’s office which showed that the amount of P11,780,441.28 was released to Jose Mariano Cuña, owner of the property in Barangay Awai, San Jacinto.


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Ermin Garcia Jr., publisher of The Sunday Punch, said the city council unanimously ratified last Monday the contract which Mayor Benjamin Lim entered into with I-Clean, owned by one Charlie Go, for the collection of garbage in 11 barangays, instead of 16, for a period of three months, instead of five.


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This, after the municipal council of San Jacinto, where the city government intended to purchase a property for the landfill, passed a resolution last Monday rejecting the project.


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And he vows to get the country’s fourth highest post — the House speakership — back.


De Venecia told reporters here that he has informed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of his plans.


"Our agreement from the very beginning is that I will run for Congress and then I will run for Speaker again," he said.


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Garcia is the son of slain newsman Ermin Garcia Sr., publisher of the local weekly paper The Sunday Punch. When his father was shot dead inside his office on AB Fernandez Avenue here in 1965 after he exposed payroll padding in the provincial government, the young Ermin, then only 20, took over the newspaper as publisher, a position he holds until now.


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