WHOEVER asked for the DPWH projects is immaterial. What matters most is, it is during my incumbency that the national government finally acted the flooding problem of Dagupan. This was the sentiment expressed by Mayor Belen Fernandez as she vowed not to stop the ongoing projects of DPWH— the elevation of…
SUSPECTED CORRUPTION DURING LIM’S TERM MAYOR Belen Fernandez finds reason to call out City Auditor Michael Basa for the Commission on Audit’s (COA) delayed publication of updated reports on some suspected corruption-ridden projects of the previous city administration. According to Mayor Fernandez, she continues to wait for the updated Audit…
CONTROVERSIAL LANDFILL PROJECT IN BRGY AWAI THE Dagupan City government can only claim to own five hectares out of the 29 hectares in Barangays Awai and Bolo in San Jacinto town that the city government bought in 2002 for P16 million. A report from the Department of Agrarian Reform provincial…
SEAWALL STOPS FISHERMEN’S LIVELIHOOD – Different fisherfolk groups are protesting the ongoing construction of steel seawall in front of their communities because it will prevent them from doing their usual fishing activity using the beach seine (kalokor). (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN has enough rice buffer stocks for the next 30-60 days according to an official of the National Food Authority (NFA)-Pangasinan. Frederick Dulay, NFA assistant manager, said , “We have enough buffer stocks,” but declined to reveal the volume available at the warehouse. “Sapat na sapat,” he said, adding that…
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)–Pangasinan has seen an increase in compliance rate among rice retailers in the implementation of Executive Order No. 39, or a 90 to 95-percent increase from last week’s 80-percent. This was bared by Guillermo Avelino Jr., chief of the Consumer Protection Division of DTI-Pangasinan…
SHELLFISH from the coastal waters of Western Pangasinan are safe to consume. In its September 8 Shellfish Bulletin No. 21, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said mariculture areas in Infanta, coastal waters of Bolinao, Anda, Alaminos, Sual, and Wawa, Bani in Pangasinan, including mariculture areas in Rosario,…
SANS ECC AND MASTER PLAN GOV. Ramon Guico III questioned the Department of Public Works and Highways’ (DPWH) construction of a seawall without an Environmental Compliance Certificate in an environmentally protected area in Lingayen-Binmaley coastline covered by a presidential proclamation. Presidential Decree 156 series of 1993 signed by then President…
QUESTION HOUR ON SEAWALL PROJECT — Gov. Ramon Guico III gestures as he asks representatives of the DPWH to explain how the ongoing seawall construction project was started without the required Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC). Beside him is Vice Governor Mark Lambino, presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
STILL NO 2023 ANNUAL BUDGET FOR DAGUPAN THE League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) joined the Dagupan City government in seeking a solution to the impasse over the passage of the latter’s 2023 annual budget, making it the only LGU in the country today still without an approved 2023…
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