Mayor Addresses Growing Controversy Over Online Allegations

Social‑media allegations are stirring fresh tension on San Pedro, prompting the mayor to push back and characterize the claims as an effort to undermine the council’s work. He says the accusations, from business dealings to questions about employees holding second jobs, are not only misleading but aimed at distracting from what he insists is ongoing progress at the municipality. Today, he addressed the controversy head‑on.

 

Wally Nunez, San Pedro Mayor

“There have been some allegations, but I believe that this has been like a sabotage to my integrity, from the UDP’s standpoint. All of these things have been said on Facebook, on their page. It is all false allegations, so I don’t know where they’re coming from but I know that they are trying to attack me personally, than trying to figure out what is happening in the town council, because in the town council, as every the people can see, we have been working very hard throughout the two terms. We continue the work and we will continue work for the people of San Pedro.”

 

Isani Cayetano

“Mayor, if I could look at a few of the things that are being said against you by the opposition, there’s one with Nupalm and something that has to do with another bar and people working overtime who are employed by the town council. Can you speak to that?

 

Wally Nunez

“Definitely. Nupalm is a company where I am just a shareholder. Nupalm has been operating as a lounge, it is not necessarily a nightclub. But the lounge has a different license which is actually a members club. That club has been operating ever since, before I was mayor and it had to go through a lot of different things to meet the requirement, especially when it comes to soundproofing, when it comes to double doors and how we gte people in and out of that establishment. We have different exit points. But there are allegations that there have been workers from the town council working there. There are a lot of workers at the council that work in different other businesses. They do have other jobs. As long as they come in and they clock in at the council, they get paid for what they work at the council and there are a lot of workers that do have second jobs and they go in different other places to work. So I don’t see any issue with that.”

 

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