THE Red flag is up! The 2025 Midterm elections is not going to be just like any other in the past. What it is, and how it will end will be a test of our individual and community moral character. It will not be a mere election of another set…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. A thought deemed most unlikely to happen, happened at the highest national political level last week. Sen. Imee Marcos, elder sister of PBBM, bolted her brother’s political party with an unprecedented twist. She decided to politically distance herself from her brother’s politics upon getting her…
COMELEC RULE VIOLATED – Personnel of the Dagupan City Comelec Office are back on the city’s highway and streets for a day for its token implementation of illegally mounted campaign posters around the city. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Regional Trial Court in Urdaneta denied the temporary restraining order petition filed by the mayor and vice mayor of the city as their one-year suspension was already been put into effect, but noted that there was no proper service of the decision in accordance with the Rules of Court,…
THE seven-member majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod brushed aside accusations that they were to blame for the canceled implementation of the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH), since they passed the needed resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of the project with the…
URDNAETA City Mayor Julio Parayno III, despite being barred from entering the city hall with the implementation of his one-year preventive suspension, issued a memorandum from his home on March 26 suspending face-to-face classes for public primary and secondary schools from March 26 to 28 due to extreme heat that…
APRIL 5 will be a special non-working holiday for the celebration of Agew na Pangasinan, with an official declaration issued last week by Malacañang. Proclamation No. 848, s. 2025, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin by authority of the President, acknowledges the significance of the occasion and ensures that the…
PIA TELLS STUDENTS, GO AFTER YOUR DREAMS — Senator Pia Cayetano addresses senior high school and college students from the different secondary schools as well as some college graduates at the Lingayen Civic Center last March 25 during her career talk las week on the theme: “Success Starts Now: How to Transition…
LOCAL councils are prohibited from discussing any other matter until the annual budget for the succeeding year is passed, based on Section 323 of the Local Government Code — and this contributed to the delay in the passage of just a simple resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a…
MAJORITY BLOC QUESTIONS LIMITATIONS DAGUPAN City Legal Officer Aurora Valle maintains that in all cases of preventive suspension, the suspended official is barred from performing the functions of his or her office and does not receive salary although not vacating and losing the title to the office. In a letter to…
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