HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JANUARY 22 – (Dagupan City) Luzviminda Fernandez; (Manaoag) Jan Vincent Quines JANUARY 23- (Dagupan City) Ma. Flordeliza Sta. Maria; (Calasiao) Arthuro De Vera; (Manaoag) Zamheartcloe De Vera JANUARY 24- (Dagupan City) Annaliza Servito; (Mangaldan) Armina De Guzman; (Mapandan) Ma. Ariana Sandoval JANUARY 25- (Calasiao) Jasmine Mendoza Happy Birthday!…
By Rex Catubig “INTSIK tsonga”, “Tsikwa”– are just two of the monikers they are condescendingly called, implying disdain in the way they are regarded. Which reveals our bias and cultural ignorance. My father was privileged to enjoy a close association with the Chinese in the lumber business. I grew…
IT is both disconcerting and worrisome to see the provincial government, seemingly helpless about the series of agriculture crisis, i.e., shortage of supply and runaway prices of rice and sugar today, and soon salt, hitting the country. Perhaps, Pangasinan may not be considered a major factor in resolving the issues…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE 7 epaLiFes at the Dagupan sanggunian, they who believe they are invincible by simply being in the majority, are finally slowly digging their own political graves. They are finally told in their faces by DILG that it is their job to pass the annual…
ONLY LGU IN REGION WITHOUT ANNUAL BUDGET A RANKING Department of the Interior and Local Government official confirmed that Dagupan City is the only local government unit in Region 1 that failed to adopt and pass its 2023 annual budget on deadline. Provincial DILG Director Virgilio Sison confirmed the status…
SET FOR DEMOLITION – An illegal fish pen in Dagupan City set for demolition is marked with red paint by the Task Force Bantay Ilog, to indicate that due process with owner has been completed. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
DAGUPAN COUNCILORS REMINDED THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod was directed to submit a report under oath to the provincial office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, to explain why it failed to act on the budget last December 31, 2022 despite repeated reminders. This was stressed by DILG…
SUBMITTED SINCE OCT 12, 2022 THE proposed annual budget of Dagupan for fiscal year 2023 including all its integral plans, had long been on the table of the seven-man majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) since October 12, 2022, the day when it was submitted for the consideration by the…
COMMEMORATING MACARTHUR LANDING – The erecting of the Philippine flag by a laborer in front of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s photo before the start of the 78th commemorative program in Dagupan City is reminiscent of victorious collaboration between Pangasinan guerillas and the American liberation forces’ landing in the beaches of Lingayen Gulf on January 9,…
FOR BLOCKING URGENT MEASURES A DILG legal opinion in 2019 states that if the Sanggunian committed inaction that is intentional and without valid and justifiable grounds on matters certified as urgent by the Local Chief Executive (LCE), thereby showing no consideration on the priorities of the administration, “the members, thereof, are…
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