PRE-NEW YEAR REVERLY DAYS before the end of 2022, the Department of Health – Center for Health Development in Region 1 (DOH-CHD1) already recorded seven cases of firecracker-related injuries despite the authorities’ continuous advice and warning against the use of pyrotechnic and banned firecrackers. DOH-CHD 1 reported that five of…
THREE species of owl were rescued recently by the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO) after they were caught in the backyards of two houses in Bayambang. The birds were surrendered to barangay officials who in turn delivered these to MENRO for their proper care. It was learned that…
HERE we are again – most everyone is contemplating what happened to all their past New Year resolutions, particularly the broken ones, and how to frame the new ones cautiously without much optimism given how one’s past resolutions fared in the past. We in The Sunday PUNCH can only look…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. CHEERS TO SUCCESSFUL ANTI-COVID CAMPAIGN. Pangasinenses have a reason to feel blessed as a people. It can be said that we survived the pandemic in 2022 with minimal casualties compared to other populated provinces in the country. And we must give credit to where it…
DECEMBER 31, 2022 DEADLINE AS expected, Dagupan’s Sangguniang Panlungsod failed to meet the deadline for the passage of the city’s 2023 annual budget because the majority members never scheduled public hearings on the proposed 2023 budget submitted by the Fernandez administration last September 14, 2022. The majority members of the…
EXPRESS DELIVERY TO ILLEGAL FISH PENS – A boatman gingerly balances the load of sacks of commercial fish feeds before rushing to unload these to more than 1,000 illegal fish pens that continue to operate in Dagupan’s island barangays. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
NOTHING FOR THE PEOPLE – Supplemental Budget No. 1and its concurrent Supplemental Annual Investment Program No. 1 are dead in the water after the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod rejected their inclusion in the agenda of a special session called by Mayor Belen Fernandez on December 29. Th inclusion was flatly…
NOTHING FOR CITY PROGRAMS, JUST FOR CITY HALL EMPLOYEES THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed the Supplemental Budget No. 2 of Calendar Year 2022 and a separate resolution approving the proposed Supplemental Annual Investment Plan for the same year, certified urgent by the Office of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. The…
THE Liga ng Barangay (LnB) in Dagupan City manifested its dismay and exasperation on seeing the plans and programs of the city government for the barangays completely derailed by the majority members of the SP who succeeded in blocking the Supplemental Budget No. 1 up to the last day. The…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office led all four police provincial offices in accomplishments at the Police Region Office 1 Office, from December 19 to 25. This was gleaned from the weekly report of PRO 1 released by P/Brigadier General John Chua, police regional director. The report showed the Pangasinan PPO…
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