THE hearing on the 2012 budget at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was stalled anew as City Administrator Vladimir Mata again failed to attend upon the council’s invitation. Only the other three members of the Local Finance Committee (LFC) – City Treasurer Romelita Alcantara, City Budget Officer Ildefonso Calimlim and City…
SIX TREES A MONTH PER COP COMMUNITY relations officers of the 44 municipal and four city police stations in the province met in Lingayen last Monday to plan for their contribution to the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) ‘Sampung Milyong Puno, Pamana sa Kalikasan’ project. PNP Provincial Spokesperson P/Supt. Benjamin Ocumen…
PREPARATIONS for the Bangus Festival in April kicked off last week with the initial meeting of the event’s executive committee presided over by Councilor Brian Lim, this year’s hermano mayor. The first activity in the month-long celebration will be the opening of the food strip and tiangge on April 9. Formal…
REACHING OUT TO INDIGENTS—Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and members of the Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan 2000 distribute free medicines and milk to members of indigent families of Sitio Sabangan in Barangay Bonuan Gueset during the medical and dental mission held there last February 21. (Photo by MitzCresencio) Back to Homepage
URDANETA CITY— It appears policemen are now on the menu of possible targets of motorcycle-riding-in-tandem hitmen (MRTH) in addition to barangay officials and businessmen. On Feb. 23, another policeman in the city was marked for liquidation but fortunately survived the attack. PO3 Christopher Corpuz, 35, detailed with…
THE Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in Dagupan City has been granted the “special bond of spiritual affinity” by the Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Wall in Rome. Fr. Roberto Mejia, a member of Team Ministry of the St. John Cathedral, explained that the “bond” means…
CALASIAO—Residents of Barangay Talibaew here recently completed their “WASH (Water and Sanitation Hygiene) in Emergency” Program conducted by the Philippine Red Cross Pangasinan Chapter in cooperation with the International Federation of Red Cross and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid. Under the program, 425 beneficiaries from the community were given training…
PUBLIC and private vehicles are now diverted to other routes as the Villamil Bridge in Calasiao is now closed to all transportation with reconstruction work in full swing. Light vehicles coming from San Carlos City and Malasiqui going to Dagupan can take the route going to Lasip Road, San Vicente…
WITH neap tide expected on February 26-28 – aggravated by the current presence of the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB), commonly known as red tide – in some parts of western Pangasinan, the fishing communities here are in danger of suffering another fishkill. At risk are the coastal towns Bani and…
THE Dagupan government signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with salt-manufacturing giant Salinas Foods Incorporated on Tuesday for the city’s Community Health Team (CHT) project. Mayor Benjamin Lim and Johnny Khonghun, president of Salinas Foods Inc. , signed the partnership agreement to support of the city’s CHT initiative that will…
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