THE Pangasinan team returned home from in the six-day Batang Pinoy 2022 National Championship held in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur with 15 gold, 13 silver and 14 bronze medals under its belt. The national sports event that reeled off December 17 to 21 under the auspices of the Philippine Sports…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! DECEMBER 25 – (Dagupan City) Christian M. Gonzales; (Virginia Beach, U.S.A) Fe Nicole Bernadette R. Laguerta DECEMBER 26 – (Dagupan City) Ramoncito delos Santos; (Calasiao) Armando de Vera, Reynante de Vera; (Mangaldan) Rowena Joy Arboleda, Nicole Simon DECEMBER 27 – (Dagupan City) Rowena Santiago; (Calasiao) Agustin Morillo; (Mangaldan)…
TELLING SANTA CLAUS STORY WTH CALASIAO PUTO – A mother explains to her kids how Santa Claus travels to homes of behaved children at the Puto Construction and Design Contest, one of the events of the 20th edition of Puto Festival held at the Calasiao Sports Complex. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
MORE IRREGULARITIES TO AUDIT DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez asked the Commission on Audit (COA) anew to conduct special audits on five activities and initiatives of the past Lim administration, among these, the deletion of files on cash collections. The mayor submitted her fourth request in her December 14, 2022 letter…
A resolution sponsored by members of the majority of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) calling on accountability over the use of the SP over the broadcast of its session on Facebook, was opposed by all members of the minority. The resolution, proposed by Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, was seconded by Councilors…
THREE congress representatives rated highly in a nation-wide survey for all members of the House of Representatives based on their overall performance for 2022 conducted by the RP-Mission and Development Foundation Inc. (RPMD). One of the leading performers is 4th District Representative Christopher ‘Toff’ de Venecia, who raked an 89-percent…
AS Dagupeños mark and celebrate their city’s 75th year of cityhood, today’s generation must recall and teach how Dagupan came about first as a community, as a town and finally as a city. Below are excerpts from the “History of Dagupan” written by Restituto Basa, the acknowledged city’s historian. The…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHEN church bells toll on Christmas Eve, I pray that the Dagupan City SP’s 7 epaLiFes – Councilors Red Posadas Erfe-Mejia, Dada Manoais-Reyna Macalanda, Celia Chua Lim, Irene Chua Lim, Alvin Tolentino Coquia, Alfie David Fernandez and Malou Sampaga Fernandez will have the moral courage…
By Leonardo Micua I was taken aback and offended when I heard City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo, whom I bumped into at the River Grove on JdV Expressway, Wednesday night, tell other local media that I was already banned from attending and covering (via zoom) all proceedings in the Sangguniang Panlungsod. But when I called up Ryan Friday morning before I could…
TRANSACTIONS OVER UNDELIVERED MOTORBOATS TWO officials of the past Dagupan City administration claim their signatures on the documents covering the purchase of two wooden motorboats and paid in full in 2020 by the Dagupan City government were forged. The two former officials are Bernard Cabison, Waste Management Division (WMD) head,…
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