By Vice Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, Dagupan City (Following is the full text statement of Vice Mayor Fernandez over the budget issue in Dagupan City.) Nakakasakit po ng damdamin ang ginagawa ni Brian Lim na isang miyembro ng Sangguniang Panlungsod. Ang ibinabato niya ay we did not pass the budget…
Where’s the “shared responsibility”?
LIVING TESTIMONY TO MACARTHUR’S WORDS–Former Pangasinan Governor Conrado F. Estrella (before podium) shares General Douglas MacArthur’s reply to his query about his first landing site in Pangasinan when he returned to liberate Luzon from the Japanese occupation forces during World War II. Estrella, now 93, was the guest of honor and…
LIVING TESTIMONY TO MACARTHUR’S WORDS
ESTRELLA ENDS DEBATE LINGAYEN–The contentious debate over the actual site where General Douglas MacArthur first set foot in Pangasinan when he returned to liberate Luzon during the World War II is finally over. The general waded ashore for the first time in Lingayen, not in Dagupan.
MacArthur landed in Lingayen!
THE VETERAN’S SALUTE –Retired US Army Sgt. 1st Class Glicerio V. Valdez, Sr. from Alcala, honored as the oldest living World War II veteran in Pangasinan at 100 years old, executes a snappy salute as the national colors pass by, held aloft by a corpsman of the Philippine Army during…
THE VETERAN’S SALUTE
VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), reiterated her call anew to Mayor Benjamin Lim to allow department heads to attend the hearings for Dagupan’s 2011 proposed budget and defend their respective budgets.
VM Fernandez: SP wants the truth from dep’t heads
NO TO HEALTH BUDGET CUT– Dagupan Councilor Jesus Canto takes the podium during the January 3 session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod to register his protest over the reduction in the allocation for health services in the proposed 2011 budget of Dagupan. Also in photo are Councilors Jeslito Seen, Alvin Coquia, Red Erfe Mejia and…
NO TO HEALTH BUDGET CUT
“OBVIOUS political reasons”. This, according to Dagupan Councilor Marc Brian Lim, minority floor leader, is the reason why the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has been “dragging its feet” on the city’s proposed budget for 2011.
Politics behind budget delay — Councilor Lim
POSTHUMOUS AWARD–Sixth District Rep. Marlyn Agabas pins the Kagitingan Medal of the Philippine National Police on Mrs. Cristina Ballesca, widow of SPO2 Roderick Ballesca who died January 8 in an encounter with suspected guns-for-hire in Barangay San Mariano, Santa Maria town. With Agabas are Police Regional Director Franklin Bucayu, Police Provincial…
POSTHUMOUS AWARD
LINGAYEN–The implementation of the ‘two-strike’ policy of the Pangasinan police which seeks the relief of police chiefs whose areas of jurisdiction registered at least two unsolved shooting incidents within a month period, gets the nod of the regional headquarters in La Union.
