VIOLATION OF LGC CONTINUES THE minority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was again denied a chance to speak out in its regular session when the opposition that comprised the majority moved for the early adjournment of the session after submitting its written manifestation. Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia of the majority bloc,…

2024 ANNUAL DAGUPAN BUDGET THE political opposition that comprise the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to be defiant and ignores Mayor Belen Fernandez’s January 17, 2024 directive to the legislative to fast track the enactment of the Proposed Annual Investment Plan and Annual Budget for 2024 it being…

FROM EAST ZAMBALES FAULT A senior official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs) warned officials of the provincial government, and of towns and cities of a “Big One” that can hit any part of Pangasinan and must prepare for it. Dr. Leonila Bautista, a senior scientist of…

CITY GOVERNMENT WARNS CONTRACTORS THE construction of new drainage system and elevation of the road in Arellano Street is targeted for completion on March 30 or at the end of the first quarter this year, while the shorter project on A.B. Fernandez Avenue from the street junction with Arellano Street…

OPLAN IWAS PAPUTOK A GOOD TRY FIREWORKS-related injuries (FWRI) in Pangasinan recorded from Dec. 21, 2023 to Jan. 2, 2024 are 33% higher than last year’s data covering the same period. According to the Provincial Health Office, there were 93 cases in 2023 compared to 70 in 2022 and the…

STRIKE ONE FOR 2024 THE majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod flatly rejected the submitted supplemental budget granting P20,000 Special Recognition Incentive to regular employees and P5,000 one-time gratuity pay to job order and contractual employees of the city government. The reason? Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia of the majority bloc, claimed…

SP BYPASSED FOR DELAYING TACTICS DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez and the Department of Health decided to bypass the authority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod and signed the memorandum of agreement for the construction of a P150 million Mother and Child Hospital in Dagupan to beat the December 31 2023 deadline…

DOUBLE WHAMMY FROM MAJORITY BLOC THE majority councilors again blocked the move to construct the P150 million Mother and Child Hospital project of the Department of Health, this time by rejecting the inclusion of the same resolution they voted down last November 23, in the December 19 agenda. This after…

3 COMPONENT CITIES, 24 TOWNS MAKE IT FOR the first time since 2015, the Pangasinan provincial government failed to earn the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) award this year although three of its component cities and 24 of its component municipalities bagged the prestigious Department of the Interior and…

ANOTHER FEATHER ON THE CAP THE Dagupan City government received another feather on its cap when it was presented the Anti-Drug Abuse Council Performance Award by the regional office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). The award, signed on November 24, 2023 by DILG Regional Director…