BINIBINING SILKA – Beauteous participants gamely do a number during the Binibining Silka 2023 North Luzon during the pageant held at CSI The City Mall in Dagupan on August 12. The crown was won by Nichole Morgan, a second year Nursing student at Saint Louis University. First runner-up was Francine Atasha Mesa…
THE Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP)-Pangasinan chapter held its annual tree planting activity, followed by delivery of free dental and medical services to residents of Balungao town. The activities dubbed “Oplan BroadcasTreeing” and “Oplan KBP – Kapwa, Bayanihan, Pagdadamayan Dental and Medical Mission” was held last Saturday, August…
THE recent severe flooding experience by almost all the barangays in Dagupan City became a fodder for all types of critical commentary by opposing political groups in social media. The groups opposed to the Fernandez administration blame Mayor Belen for aggravating the flood situation by allowing the DPWH to construct…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. LAST week, the sun was out. The city streets were dry. Stores were open. Cars, jeepneys, tricycles and motorcycles were back with a vengeance hugging the city streets. Vendors occupied dry sidewalks. Most everyone resumed their daily routines in Dagupan City. Worse, images of the…
RENIER Ranges, an incoming grade 12 student at the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF), brought home one gold and a silver medal when he represented Region 1 in the track events in the just concluded Palarong Pambansa, held in Marikina from July 30 to August 5. Ranges clinched a gold…
DAGUPAN’S BUDDY BACK FOR RELIEF OPERATIONS – Senator Imee Marcos, accompanied by Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez, gives children affected by the severe flooding toys and nutribuns to be brought home. (Punchphoto by Leonardo Micua)
SENATOR Imee Marcos, elder sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., expressed dismay on learning that action on the 2023 annual budget of Dagupan is still pending and the city is still operating on a reenacted budget. “Nabalitaan ko nga yong mga maanghang na batuhan sa Facebook”, Senator Marcos said laughing,…
A TOTAL of 2,500 tricycle drivers and operators of Dagupan benefitted from the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the efforts of Senator Imee Marcos who came to the city on August 5. Mayor Belen Fernandez said when all…
FLOODS have already subsided in all of Dagupan City except in certain areas in Barangays Lasip Chico and Malued. This was reported by Roland de Guzman, head of the technical working group of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) in an interview over IFM Radio Dagupan on…
THE committee on infrastructure of Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod headed by Councilor Alvin Coquia will resume its public hearing on the ongoing construction of elevated drainage system of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) along Arellano Street and A.B. Fernandez Avenue East on Tuesday (August 15). Coquia, a member…
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