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Pinablin Ama na Dagupan: Mayor Al If one would talk about one iconic politician in the history of Dagupan City, the name Alipio Fernandez Jr. would easily come to mind. His entry into politics in his early youth was immediately welcomed by Dagupeños in 1971 as a councilor. Blessed with a charismatic yet easy-mannered personality, […]
HIGH TIDE STRIKES AGAIN
HIGH TIDE STRIKES AGAIN — Mothers carefully lead their children to wooden planks to get to the West Central School to get past the flooding caused by the morning high tide. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
Six police chiefs sacked for poor performance
REGIONAL PNP EVALUATION LINGAYEN—A week after 13 police chiefs in Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte and La Union were sacked from their posts due to poor performance, six more from Pangasinan municipal police stations were also relieved on August 8. P/Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula, police regional director, ordered the relief of police chiefs in the municipal […]
Mayor Al leaves legacy on good governance
DAGUPAN City lost a father and a statesman when former Mayor Alipio F. Fernandez Jr. died early morning of August 9 after a lingering illness. He was 75. Fernandez, who served as mayor of Dagupan City for 12 long years, from 1992 to 2001 and from 2007 to 2010, succumbed to complications at his residence in […]
City to create Anti-Flooding Task force
TO STUDY, RECOMMEND SOLUTIONS THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod agreed in principle to create a special Anti-Flooding Task Force that will study the causes of the recurring flood in Dagupan and recommend short and long term solutions to the problem. The creation of the task force was proposed by Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo during a committee […]
EMB asked to check backfilling activities in Dagupan
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is poised to ask the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) to check if individuals or corporations in Dagupan that received Environmental Compliance Certificates (ECCs) are strictly following the conditions attached to their certificates. This was sought by Councilor Nicanor Aquino, chair of the committee on land use, noting a lot of backfilling […]
SP vows vigilance in monitoring STL operations
LINGAYEN—The members of Sangguniang Panlalawigan vowed to continue to investigate, in aid of legislation, the operations of Small Town Lottery (STL) in the province. This after they grilled Editha Romero, OIC branch manager, PCSO in Urdaneta City, the only resource person who appeared for the Question Hour (QH) on Aug. 6. The deliberation was cut […]