THE Dagupan City government has began its search for a new alternative to help solve the worsening garbage disposal in the city after Sure Global backed out from the Waste to Energy project that was supposed to build a 15-million dollar facility that can convert garbage into diesel fuel and gas…
TRAFFIC enforcers of the Dagupan City Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) have been ordered not to greet motorists with usual Christmas and New Year greetings openly lest their gestures are interpreted to mean they are soliciting cash gifts. Arvin Decano, POSO Dagupan chief said the order was issued to…
AS the world mulls, prays and celebrates Christmas, what should Christmas mean to families and to their governments amid wars and economic crisis? During the Christmas season, the image of a baby born in a manger in Bethlehem is what Catholics and Christians all over the world remember as a…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. What’s the worst Christmas thought for Dagupeños? It is knowing that another protracted word war is in the offing after Dagupan’s 7 epaLiFes (aka councilors in the majority) boycotted the SP’s regular and special sessions, and particularly, after Mayor Belen Fernandez signed the memorandum of…
SP BYPASSED FOR DELAYING TACTICS DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez and the Department of Health decided to bypass the authority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod and signed the memorandum of agreement for the construction of a P150 million Mother and Child Hospital in Dagupan to beat the December 31 2023 deadline…
MOA FOR MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL — Mayor Belen Fernandez (right) signs the Memorandum of Agreement for the construction of the P150 million Mother and Child Hospital with DOH Regional Director Paula Paz Sydiongco at the Dagupan City Hall on December 20 to beat the December 31,2023 deadline. (Punchphoto by…
PLANS to pursue the establishment of a Tri-City Ferry System (TCFS) that seeks to revive a sea-based transport connecting the cities of Alaminos, Dagupan and San Fernando suffered a snag because the Dagupan City government has not complied with the requirement to adopt and submit a resolution asking the Department…
2024 SUPPLEMENTAL ANNUAL INVESTMENT, BUDGET THE Local Development Council (LDC) headed by Mayor Belen Fernandez endorsed the Proposed Supplemental Annual Investment Program of P36.096,000, and Proposed Supplemental Budget No. 2 with the same amount for approval by the Sangguniang Panlungsod in its next regular session. The Proposed SAIP was passed on…
“LET us end our 2023 feeling grateful and thankful,” Governor Ramon Guico III told provincial department heads and employees last December 18 when he led the last flag-raising ceremony for the year at the Capitol grounds. In his message, he expressed his gratitude to all department heads and the thousands…
BLESSING SAME-SEX COUPLES LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the Fiducia Supplicans approved by Pope Francis on Dec. 18 is clearly an indication that the Catholic Church is open to “blessing couples in irregular situations and same sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial…
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