EIGHT CHARGES FILED BEFORE OMBUDSMAN URDANETA City Mayor Julio Parayno III is fighting back against his political opponents and filed criminal and administrative complaints against Gov. Ramon Guico III before the Office of the Ombudsman for Luzon, as a result of his 90-day suspension in August last year that stemmed…

DANGER FROM MANILA TRENCH ALL of Dagupan, not just its coastal areas, will be affected in the event of a tsunami triggered by an 8.2 magnitude earthquake coming from the potentially active Manila Trench, according to Meliquin Bauzon, chief of the Public Alert Response and Monitoring Center (PARMC). In a…

AFTER PASSAGE OF 150 ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS MAYOR Belen Fernandez sees a more progressive year for Dagupan in 2025 as it will no longer operate on a reenacted budget, unlike in 2023 and 2024, which she described as “excruciating years” for the city and people. The mayor told the city hall…

DURING MINORITY’S BOYCOTT THE Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan ended 2024 by passing one more ordinance and 15 resolutions during a special session on December 27, its last working day for the year. Called by Mayor Belen Fernandez, the special session tackled other pending measures she deemed important and urgent. The…

UNDER NEW DAGUPAN SP MAJORITY IN less than two months, from November 5 to December 23, the new majority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) recorded an unprecedented accomplishment of passing 26 ordinances and more than 100 resolutions, during six regular sessions and one special session. City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo…

A BIG BOON TO DAGUPAN ALMOST 90 years after the Franklin Bridge was washed out by a big flood in 1935, a new bridge will soon cross the Calmay River in Dagupan City. Groundbreaking rites for the new Calmay Bridge were held in the morning of December 20 in Barangay Calmay, led by Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Christopher…

DESPITE OPPOSITION WALKOUT DAGUPAN’S Sangguniang Panlungsod passed 14 ordinances and 10 resolutions during a special session that ran for less than five hours on December 12, a record accomplishment for the city’s lawmaking body, despite another walkout by four opposition councilors. Among the measures passed were ordinances: 1. Establishing the…

AFTER WALKING OUT OF 3 PREVIOUS SESSIONS OPPOSITION councilors who now compose the new minority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) did not attend the December 3 session in an apparent boycott that forced an adjournment and further delays in pending ordinances and resolutions. The four councilors staged walkouts in the…

ANOTHER DAGUPAN OPPOSITION SETBACK APPROPRIATION ordinances submitted by local government units (LGU) to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for review — bearing the official LGU seal, signatures of the Secretary and the Presiding Officer of the local council as well as the approval of the mayor — are…

MBTF ADMINISTRATION VINDICATED A Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Dagupan has denied the third case filed by the city’ opposition councilors against what they claimed to be the illegal passage of the 2023 budget by the five-member minority bloc on September 26, 2023, for lack of merit. In a 13-page…