THE move of the Alaminos City government to pass and enforce its “Discipline Zone’ ordinance is not only timely but provides a direction that the Sangguniang Panlalawigan should consider adopting as a provincial ordinance to be passed and enforced in all towns and cities. The ordinance hits the core of…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. PANGASINENSES will finally see their non-working governor at work with the expected windfall of infrastructure projects that will be funded by the P6,000,000,000. loan with Land Bank! Guv Mon-Mon Guico will no longer be seen only signing memorandums of agreements but physically inspecting the 1)…
By Leonardo Micua ON February 14, members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panglungsod, except one, wore red in tune with the spirit of Valentine’s Day. That would have been just fine as many others wore red that day. Many thought with red as the dominant color of…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I NORMALLY prefer the silence of the morning to inspire myself to write. Debussy competes with the silence at times, but not often. This morning I spontaneously played Debussy’s Clair de Lune, one of my favorites among his compositions. It is probably an impulse, or…
By Farah G. Decano IT is still February, albeit post Valentine, and I was inspired by my former law professor, Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, now touted as the love guru in the twitter world, to come up with snippets of post breakup advice culled from the many…
By Eva Visperas YES, mga Marites. The chismis is true. I’m back to where my heart is. Thanks again to Sir Ermin for this space in our beloved Sunday Punch. As soon as I had my much-needed brief vacay from a short local government work stint, his timely offer…
TO ASH THOU SHALT RETURN — Rev. Fidelis Layog, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, marks ash on the foreheads of provincial government employees and police officers during the Holy Mass at the Provincial Training and Development Center II (PTDC2) at the Capitol Compound in Lingayen in observance of Ash…
THE Dagupan City government is reactivating its past Privately Hosted Evacuation Center (PHEC) program as one of its preparations and responses to a possible 7.8 magnitude earthquake that may hit the country and could result in a tsunami that might affect Dagupan City. This was decided during Mayor Belen Fernandez’s…
THE city of Dagupan, along the coast of the Lingayen Gulf, is increasingly vulnerable to perennial flooding, water security issues and extreme weather events which negatively impact on its coastal and marine ecosystem and the health of its over 171,000 population. This was bared in the Climate and Ocean Risk…
THE minority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) agreed with the manifestation of the majority to end its committee hearings on the 2023 proposed annual budget on March 14 even with no certainty that the annual budget will be approved. Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, chairman of the committee on finance budget and…
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