By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE epaLiFes, the 7-majority in the Dagupan sanggunian, are already frantically grasping at straws on how to evade responsibility over their plot to reject the proposed 2023 annual budget of Dagupan City and compel the reenactment of the 2022 budget in the next 12 months….
CITY LEGAL OFFICE ORDERED MAYOR Belen Fernandez has given the go-signal to City Legal Officer Aurora Valle to file charges against former city officials involved in the scholarship program of the past administration in her first meeting for the new year with the Local Development Council (LDC) on January 16,…
MBTF: Charge ex-city officials involved in scholarship fund mess
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COLORS FOR LUNAR YEAR – Four performers wearing colorful head icons symbolizing spring season for good harvest, for summer and excitement, for autumn, winter and sole empire, march ahead of the Lunar Year ahead of the Dancing Dragon. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
COLORS FOR LUNAR YEAR
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A TESDA training assessor of Pangasinan was murdered by a still unidentified suspect inside her house in Brgy. Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City on January 11. The victim, identified as Lizandra Mamaril, 57 years old, was alone in her house when her husband Eusebio Mamaril, 60, found her naked, her face covered by a pillow and her head…
Husband finds wife murdered inside their house
A REFORMATION facility for drug offenders called ‘Balay Silangan’ will soon rise in Dagupan following an inspection conducted by Mayor Belen Fernandez last January 12, 2023 located on A.B. Fernandez West, Poblacion Oeste. The Balay Silangan is seen as an alternative approach to address illegal drug use and help drug…
Dagupan’s Balay Silangan opens soon for drug offenders
TWO former members of the “militia ng bayan” of the Sigmaru Unit Command of the Kilusang Larangang Gerilya Caraballo of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to police and military authorities on January 14. The surrenderers, a couple, were identified as Tomas Cabonitalla, alias “Ka Tomas”, 59; and Felicidad Cabonitalla,…
Two ex-communist militiamen surrender
A VISITING woman from Pampanga lost the sacks of onions and 5 bags of eggplants she bought at the Urdaneta City Agri-Trading Post that she was about to transport, to an unidentified tricycle driver. A closed circuit television camera recorded the theft past 2:10 pm on Lachica St., beside the People’s Park and…
Tricycle driver runs off with 2 sacks of onion, 5 bags of eggplants
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RETURN OF THE TALONG FESTIVAL – The performers dance heartily to deliver the message that fun and excitement in Villasis town are back at the Talong Festival. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
RETURN OF THE TALONG FESTIVAL
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution congratulating and commending Dr. Ellen Poyaoan-Santos for winning the title Elite Mrs. Universe 2022 in the recently concluded Mrs. Universe Pageant held in Sydney, Australia on December 4, 2022. Resolution No. 968, authored by Third District Board Member Vici Ventanilla cited that Dr. Poyaoan-Santos,…