By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
An official of Urdaneta City said that despite the “Bagsakan” Market in Villasis that competes with the entrepot of the former, the one in Villasis has still a long way to go.
An official of Urdaneta City said that despite the “Bagsakan” Market in Villasis that competes with the entrepot of the former, the one in Villasis has still a long way to go.
“Their vegetables there are expensive compared to us,” he stressed.
He said that buyers still mass in the Carabao City because of countless of options the city offers.
He explained that in case the Tarlac-Pangasinan Express Way (TPLEX) becomes operational; vehicles would by-pass Villasis that would seal the end of the “Bagsakan” there.
He said Urdaneta City will burgeon as the city hosts the access road of TPLEX where he singled out that commuters from Eastern and Central Pangasinan who use the Bayambang and Camiling roads would shun them and use the more accessible and faster path of the TPLEX through Urdaneta in going to Manila.
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Somebody told me that a member of the House of Representatives succeeded in stopping the illegal numbers game jueteng in a certain town for several months.
But the lawmaker did not stop it because the game is illegal.
The Representative stopped it as a quid pro quo (“What for what” in Latin) for the mayor there to give the former P300 thousand a month.
“The solon gets P1.5 million a month in the district during the lawmaker’s 1st term as member of the House”.
Jueteng in the town is now sluggish after two maintainers run the number game.
The other one, according to my source, did not share a percentage to the mayor everyday.
“Masyadong malakas sa Region ang maintainer!” my source quipped.
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Dagupan City administrator Vlad Mata agreed to my previous column “Poor Dagupan, Laoag and Urdaneta have left her” (You can access it at http://northwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/ortigoza-poor-dagupan-laoag-and-urdaneta-have-left-her/).
He cited the following reasons why the two cities left Dagupan holding the proverbial empty “bayong” (bag).
Firstly, Dagupan should amend her Revenue Code (RC) every three (3) years. He explained that the last time the Bangus City “touched” the Code was in 2004.
He said the three years amendatory period is not only listed on the RC but is included on the memorandum of the Bureau of Local Government Finance of the Department of Budget & Management “that S.P (Sangguniang Panglungsod) approves the Revenue Code”.