AFTER the three successive attempts to suspend Urdaneta City Mayor Julio Parayno over the flimsiest complaint on governance, it has become much too obvious to Urdanetans that both Governor Ramon Guico III and Vice Governor Mark Lambino are conspiring to serve the city’s mayoralty post to the governor’s wife, Maan…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. NOVEMBER 1 is a date that has become sacred to our family. It is the date when our youngest sibling, Karina, died. She drowned off the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan on November 1, 1963. Know that as our mother, Paulita, revealed she overheard Karina telling…
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – A vulnerable portion of the Tondaligan Baywalk in Bonuan Binloc is severely damaged by the storm surge. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE minority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod called out the majority bloc anew for sitting on a draft resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a Memorandum of Agreement on behalf of the city with the Department of Human Settlement and Urban Development (DHSUD) for the implementation of the Pabahay…
IT’S for the people to assess and judge whether the provincial capitol compound and its beachfront is cleaner and more beautiful now than three years ago, said former Gov. Amado Espino III who is running in May 2025 to reclaim the province’s top seat. Speaking over Aksyon Radyo Dagupan on October…
BINMALEY Vice Mayor Simplicio Rosario, who is running for mayor in the May 2025 elections, has reiterated his challenge to his opponent, re-electionist Mayor Pedro Merrera, for a public debate on various issues concerning the town. He repeated his call during an interview with Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan on Friday, October…
Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News Palay price in Pangasinan drops to P21/k THE buying price of palay in Pangasinan dropped to P21 per kilo from P25/k last week on account of simultaneous harvests by farmers, resulting in big volume of palay up for sale. The Samahan ng Industriya ng Agrikultura…
SURPRISE VISITOR — A woman casually walks by the MV Xavier I vessel bound for Sual that ran aground at the beach in Binmaley town during the storm surge triggered by severe tropical storm Kristine Wednesday night. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
A CASE FOR OMBUDSMAN, NOT CAPITOL THE new order of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) suspending Urdaneta Mayor Julio Parayno III for another one year — which supposedly took effect on October 14, before his 90-day preventive suspension was to expire — was considered null and void based on the October…
A day after Typhoon Kristine swept through Dagupan City on October 24, Mayor Belen Fernandez said she may call for a special session to ask the Sangguniang Panlungsod to pass a resolution placing the city under a state of calamity in view of the damage and impact on residents. As…
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