JUST when the Sangguniang Panlungsod finally adopted Supplemental AIP 1, the majority members again tried to play the same card to delay the passage of the resubmitted 2023 in plenary session on first reading. But the effort to refer the resubmitted P1.3 billion budget again to the committee, headed by…
TWO ACTING GUVS, VICE GUVS UNKNOWN to many, the provincial government had two acting governors, two acting vice governors over a week’s period after Governor Ramon Guico III filed a leave of absence starting Monday, June 26. Vice Governor Mark Lambino was acting governor till after the regular weekly session…
AFTER weeks of delay, the committee on dangerous drugs in the Sangguniang Panlungsod finally endorsed the ordinance proposed by the minority bloc establishing and adopting the Balay Silangan Reformation Center (BSRC) in the city of Dagupan in accordance with the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) regulations. The ordinance was proposed by…
A GIANT step towards accessible free college education is expected to be realized in the next school year 2023-2024 following the passage of an ordinance on Monday establishing the Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) in the province. The ordinance cited the PPC’s advocacy to supplement the existing traditional educational institutes of…
THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) – Dagupan has started investigation of the discovered more than hundred names of flying voters to purge the list of voters before the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). Atty. Michael Franks Sarmiento, City Election Officer, said the Election Registration Board (ERB) has begun canceling…
TREES FOR DAANG KALIKASAN — Members of the Pangasinan Native Trees Enthusiasts, mostly teachers from Urbiztondo National HS, and government employees planted different native tree seedlings around Daang Kalikasan’s 20 hectares arboretum of native trees on June 25, 2023, Arbor Day, in Mangatarem. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
CITY Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia denied that he and the six other members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod intentionally planned on not showing up at their scheduled meeting last June 23, 2 p.m. with Mayor Belen Fernandez at city hall. In his privilege speech on June 26, Erfe-Mejia…
FUND-RAISING FOR TERMINALLY ILL PERSONNEL, DAY CARE THE ‘Cong. Sandro Marcos Cup Pangasinan’, a two-day shootfest held in Lingayen by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office at the PPPO shooting range in Lingayen town on June 24 and 25 raised funds for the care of terminally ill personnel and the construction…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez is on a learning trip to Thailand on the invitation of the Kasersart University in Bangkok, the largest agricultural science higher learning institution in that country. Along with City Legal Officer Aurora Valle and her chief of staff Luz de Guzman, Mayor Fernandez will study product branding,…
THE worsening daily traffic situation along AB Fernandez East Avenue in Dagupan City is taking its toll on patience and frustrations of commuters and motorists because of the gridlock caused by the ongoing construction of the city’s drainage canal system along the city’s Traffic Post number one, commonly known as…
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