UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen Fernandez conducted an early morning surprise inspection at the De Venecia Road Ext. in preparation for the BIDA Fun Run in Dagupan City on April 30. She is accompanied by City Engineer Josephine Corpuz, Faivo Bartolome (Technical Committee), Tiffany Juan (Sales Exec-Nestle Philippines Inc.) and Rod Coquia…
MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY, PRESS COUNCIL – The Philippine Press Institute (PPI), also known as the national association of newspapers, recently conducted an orientation and workshop on “Media Accountability and the Press Council” in Angeles City, Pampanga, a prelude to the creation of Media-Citizen Councils nationwide. The first of a series for…
TODAY’S Catholic laity are of the belief that celebrating Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, is the most significant religious observance. We have 15-45 days season of celebration marked by colorful lights, gift-giving topped off by unrivalled commercialism in all malls, restaurants and stores immortalized by the image of a…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WITHOUT any doubt in my mind, the mangled P864.91-M annual budget awarded by the 7 epaLiFes to the Dagupan City government has changed some lives in the city for good. The unprecedented reckless imprudence in legislation and ignorance of the law demonstrated by the arrogant…
ALL TERMINATED BY 7 CITY COUNCILORS –The Monday flag ceremony is besieged by more than 700 city hall employees not terminated with cause but by the annual budget approved by the 7 councilors in the majority that deleted their salaries and allowances effective April 1. (CIO photo by Dave Paragas)
“IPAGLALABAN natin ang ating budget, ipaglalaban natin ang budget ng bawat departamento, ipaglalaban natin na maibalik kayo sa serbisyo.” This was the assurance of the defiant Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez when she spoke before the lightning indignation rally led by the more than 700 laid off workers and personnel…
FOR rejecting the Annual Investment Program (AIP) submitted by the city executive, the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan City committed a serious violation of the law and for ignorance of the law. This was underscored by City Legal Officer Aurora Valle who said the AIP is a plan of the city executive or…
THE seven councilors that comprise the majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod and voted to pass the P864.91 million as annual budget for the city government committed flagrant violation of the Constitution when it withdrew P660,000 fund earmarked for the Commission on Audit (COA) office stationed in the city. Luz de Guzman,…
By Leonardo Micua THE seven-man Sanggunian Panlungsod majority assumed the rule of an executioner by chopping off the heads of over 700 job order employees and denied hundreds of frontliners of their monthly allowances, and literally grounding the public service in the city of Dagupan to a halt. For…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IS there life after death? Some believe that after death, the essential part of an individual’s stream of consciousness or identity continues to live, a belief that derives itself from various religions, esotericism and metaphysics. What lives after the physical body expires depends on which belief…
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