MAYOR Belen Fernandez is already shopping for a possible site for a new Dagupan City hall and a fishport. In addition to the prospect of rehabilitating MC Adore Hotel as the city hall, the mayor expressed the urgency for having another site for a new city hall since the pre-war…
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS—Rep. Gina de Venecia (center, front), together with the four mayors in the 4th District, try out a boat for size that she plans to commission for each of the five local governments in her district, specifically to support the disaster preparedness programs of Dagupan City and the towns of…
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
AS expected, the members of the new majority in Dagupan’s Sangguniang Panlungsod who ran along with Mayor Belen Fernandez seized the major committees, leaving only minor committees to the members of the minority Councilor Maybelyn Fernandez is back at the helm as majority floor leader during the opening session of…
Maybelyn back as majority leader
FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2013 LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) is not taking the recorded 126 shooting incidents from January to June this year lightly. It held a command conference last week to evaluate its operations particularly in the cities of Urdaneta and San Carlos and the towns of Bayambang,…
PNP alarmed by 126 shooting incidents
ALAMINOS CITY AND BANI ALAMINOS City and the municipality of Bani are among the two places in the province with new mayors who will be serving a fresh three-year term and have laid out plans during their oath-taking. In Alaminos, home of the Hundred Islands National Park, Mayor Arthur Celeste…
New mayors lay out plans, focus on tourism development
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Dagupan is holding a voter’s registration on July 22- 31 in preparation for the October 28 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. City Election Officer Ericson Oganiza said the venue will be announced later since it has yet to find a spacious venue in anticipation of…
Voter registration days in city set July 22-31
LINGAYEN–No case of chikungunya fever has so far been recorded in Pangasinan but the provincial health office (PHO) has issued an alert on the viral disease. Dr. Anna Theresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, said the health facilities around the province have been given guidelines on the case description of…
No case of chikungunya fever here, but alert up
MORE than 20 local government units (LGUs) have partnered with the Region One Medical Center (R1MC) to promote and expand voluntary blood donation in the province. The signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) last July 1, made in conjunction with the observance of the National Blood Donors Month, aims…
MOUs signed to promote blood donation
FOOD PRODUCTION—Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez hands out vegetable seeds to barangay chairmen to launch a renewed food production program on during a ceremony at the city plaza that kicked off the Nutrition Month observance. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
FOOD PRODUCTION
MAYOR Belen Fernandez has called on members of the local consignacion and fishpond owners to close ranks and study the feasibility of selling the homegrown Dagupan bangus four days a week and the other three days for the local bangus mixed with those coming from other towns of Pangasinan. She…