Checking on a new flood-control project — Second District Rep. Mark Cojuangco conducts a brief site inspection at the Aplaya Floodgate in Sitio Aplaya, Barangay Pangapisan North, Lingayen, to ensure safety before the project is officially opened and utilized. The project is designed to manage water discharge from heavy rains….
THE approval of the minutes of a past council session can only be done by those who attended that session, based on an earlier legal opinion of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). This was the ruling of Vice Mayor Bryan Kua when all seven members of…
VM Kua: Opposition can’t stop approval of minutes
AFTER OBJECTING TO SRI TWO opposition councilors secretly received their respective Special Recognition Allowance (SRI) of P20,000 each, like the rest of regular employees of the Dagupan City government as provided for in an appropriation ordinance (AO) passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod at the time three of their colleagues were…
2 opposition councilors get their respective SRIs
THE Guico provincial administration aims to improve the presentation of the role of Lingayen Gulf landings and the importance of war veterans through changes at the new Capitol Complex Plan (CCP) after it sought the approval of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) to relocate World War II…
Veterans’ Park to be improved as a landmark of patriotism
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) PDEA declares 34 Pangasinan towns and cities as drug-cleared THIRTY-FOUR of the 47 cities and municipalities in Pangasinan — with the exception of Sto. Tomas, which remained drug-unaffected — have been cleared of illegal drugs as of the end of 2024, according to the…
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GREETING A SURVIVOR FROM DAGUPAN — Governor Ramon Guico III bends to acknowledge the presence of Raymundo Manaois Cabrera, 100, of Dagupan City during the 80th Lingayen Gulf Landings Anniversary and 18th Pangasinan Veterans Day Celebration held at Capitol Beach Park in Lingayen on January 9. Cabrera is one of the 950…
GREETING A SURVIVOR FROM DAGUPAN
PARAYNOS SUSPENDED BY PALACE URDANETA City Councilor Franco del Prado, who topped the election for councilors in 2022, will serve as acting mayor, while second ranking councilor Warren Andrada will serve as acting vice mayor following the suspension of Mayor Julio ‘Rammy’ Parayno III, and his cousin, Vice Mayor Jimmy…
Urdaneta now under ‘acting mayor, VM’
FOLLOWING the return of three Dagupan councilors from their 60-day preventive suspension, allowing their group to wrest back the majority, the Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution by a vote of 7-5 asking the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) regional office to act on the alleged irregular passage of appropriation ordinances…
Returning majority dads want supplemental, annual budgets nixed
THE gun ban and other restrictions to ensure a safe and orderly midterm elections in May takes effect on January 12, Sunday, and will last until June 11. In a recent press briefing, Atty. Nathaniel Siaden, Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Officer IV of COMELEC Urdaneta City, underscored the restrictions of…
Gun ban for May election starts this week
THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has classified two cities and five towns in Pangasinan as Yellow Election Areas of Concern, which means it will be given closer watch based on election-related incidents in previous polls and additional security forces may be deployed in those localities. These are: the cities of…