DESPITE CALLS FROM 31 BARANGAYS MAYOR Belen Fernandez again entered the lions’ lair, the Sangguniang Panlungsod, on Tuesday (May 28) to appeal to the opposition comprising the majority to act on the long overdue Supplemental Budget No. 2-2024 amounting to P557 million, needed to implement the programs for 31 barangays….

ANOTHER ‘NO -SHOW’ BY OPPOSITION COUNCILORS ALL seven members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) were again a no-show during the city council’s May 21, 2024 regular session, and promptingvv Vice Mayor and SP Presiding  Officer Bryan Kua to adjourn the session after three roll calls. Only…

SECOND S.B. FOR 2024 DAGUPAN City’s Local Development Council approved a proposed Supplemental Budget No. 2-2024 signed by Mayor Belen Fernandez appropriating P557,276,800  representing the remaining balance of Supplemental Budget No. 1-2004 passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod two weeks ago that allotted only P43 million for benefits of employees and…

ONLY 7% APPROVED BY OPPOSITION AFTER the majority seven in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod reduced the city hall’s proposed Supplemental Budget from P599 million to just P42 million, in another move to sabotage her administration, Mayor Belen Fernandez said she will sign and approve the ordinance implementing the same once…

ONLY 37 BACKED OUT OF MODERNIZATION PLAN WHEN the April 30 extended deadline for the consolidation lapsed, there were only 37 jeepney owners in Pangasinan who did not comply with the PUV modernization program. This translates, however, to 99 percent of jeepney owners who managed to consolidate, according to Bernard…

BOAT SUPPLIER PAID WITHOUT DELIVERY AN incumbent official and a former official of the past Lim administration filed a complaint on April 19, 2024 before the Ombudsman for Northern Luzon  accusing former Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim, two other past officials, and an official of a supplier for alleged misappropriation…

PASSAGE OF 2023 ANNUAL BUDGET IS LEGAL THE opposition, which comprises the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod, suffered another setback when Branch 76 of the Regional Trial Court in Dagupan City denied their prayer for preliminary injunction during a court hearing on April 18. Denied by RTC Judge Michael…

10 A.M. TO 3 P.M. SUN EXPOSURE NOT SAFE NOWADAYS, it’s not just about bangus that Dagupan City is known for but for its continuously reaching dangerous levels of heat indices in the past days. According to PAGASA, Dagupan City continuously reached high heat index levels since Saturday, April 6,…

IN THE NAME OF POLITICS THE opposition comprising the majority bloc of the Dagupan Sanggunian Panlungsod again turned back on its word indicated in last week’s regular session that it would support the implementation of the P150-million Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) when it  resisted anew to pass the resolution…

P4-M WORTH SEIZED, 2 MINORS NABBED JOINT anti-narcotics and police operatives eradicated almost P4-million worth of ready-to-harvest marijuana in a plantation in Barangay Mapita, Aguilar town on March 26 and arrested two minors cultivating the plants. In a report, the pieces of drug evidence were seized in three areas with…