WHY DID ONION FARMER DIE? INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos ordered DILG Pangasinan provincial director Virgilio Sison to ‘take a leave’ for failing to report alleged harassment of the wife of an onion farmer in Bayambang town. Abalos, in a statement, Tuesday, January 24, said Sison did not…
LAST TWO DAYS FOR B&SK ELECTIONS WITH only two days left before the end of the voter registration for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections this October 2023, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Dagupan City decided to end it in a mall at the City Mall in Barangay Mayombo. Atty….
COMELEC voter registration in Dagupan only at City Mall
8TH YEAR COMMEMORATING FALLEN 44 RESIDENTS of San Nicolas town commemorated the heroism of their PO2 Ephraim Mejia, one of the fatalities in the heroic sacrifice of SAF 44, on Wednesday, January 25, eight years after the ambush in Maguindanao. Town mayor Alice Primicias-Enriquez, along with Pangasinan Police Provincial Office…
San Nicolas residents laud local SAF hero
DAGUPAN IS COVID-FREE WITH only 14 active cases recorded by the Provincial Health Office as of January 22, 2023, Pangasinan remains under Alert Level 1 quarantine classification. And if the trend continues, provincial health officials are optimistic that Pangasinan may be declared COVID-free. This was gleaned during the Question Hour…
PHO: Only 14 active cases remaining in Pangasinan
TOBACCO IS GOLD – A tobacco grower tirelessly hangs tobacco leaves to dry in a barn in Barangay Amamperez in Villasis town. The town is one of the top producers of quality tobacco leaves in the region. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TOBACCO IS GOLD
MAYOR Belen T. Fernandez has called on members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod to observe proper protocol by addressing all their invitations to officials of the executive branch to their sessions to her as head of the local government unit, to ensure smooth flow of communication. In her letter to Vice…
Mayor Belen tells Erfe-Mejia: Observe basic protocol
PNP INVESTIGATION RESULT THE police investigation of the alleged harassment of the family of a woman who testified in a hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Agriculture who claimed her husband committed suicide because he lost heavily in onion farming, has been terminated with two findings – Suicide two years…
Onion farmer’s suicide not due to losses in farming
IMPLEMENTING SCHOLARSHP FUND THE Local Development Council (LDC) passed a resolution recommending the direct disbursement of tuition fees of scholars under the Comprehensive Scholarship and Educational Assistance Program of the Dagupan City government to colleges and universities where they enrolled. LDC Resolution No. 3 was passed during the first meeting…
LDC wants tuition fees paid direct to colleges, universities
VICE Mayor Kevin Roy Macanlalay was sworn in as the new mayor of Calasiao following the demise of Mayor Mamilyn “Maya” Caramat early this month. Also sworn in as new vice mayor was Nestor Gabrillo who garnered the highest number of votes among all eight municipal councilors in the last May 9, 2022…
Calasiao’s new mayor, vice mayor take their oaths
(From 104.7 IFM Dagupan) Fishermen’s harassment at Ayungin shoal slammed THE continued harassment of Filipino fishermen by the Chinese Coast Guard preventing them from fishing at the Ayungin Shoal was condemned by the Pamalaka Pilipinas. In an interview by IFM Dagupan the group’s national chairman Fernando Hicap said the recent incident…