P1.385-B PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AFTER boycotting the March 12 session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, the seven opposition councilors finally endorsed the passage of the 2024 Annual City Budget in the amount of P1.385 billion, surprising the minority councilors and Mayor Belen Fernandez. Arriving at the session hall together in time for…

PASSAGE OF DAGUPAN 2023 BUDGET DELAYED AGAIN THE members of the majority-opposition did not only make good on its assurance that the committee on finance, budget and appropriations that submit its report on the 2024 annual city budget to the plenary session on March 12 but worse, they decided to…

REDUCED BUDGET EXPECTED ANEW MANY in the Dagupan City government are no longer optimistic about passage of the 2024 annual budget this month despite indications by the opposition that it will submit its final decision on the budget. Given statements issued by some members of the majority, the opposition will…

FLOOD MITIGATION PROJECTS THUS was the appeal Mayor Belen Fernandez she left with members of the majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod who man the committee on finance when the elevation of roads during their committee hearing on the 2024 annual budget of Dagupan last February 27 at the conference room…

ERFE-MEJIA, FERNANDEZ, LIM-ACOSTA THREE opposition councilors in Dagupan City were indicted criminally in a resolution of the City Prosecution Service of Dagupan in connection with the affidavit-complaint for illegal detention, slander and disrupting a meeting filed last year by Vice Mayor Dean Bryan Kua and five councilors of the minority…

GUICO ADMIN LANDMARK PROJECT THE Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) Center for Lifelong Learning (CeLL) was officially opened simultaneously with the signing of the memorandum of understanding with the Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) last February 14 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center Complex. PPC is a landmark project…

REFLECTING POOL-INTERACTIVE FOUNTAIN AMID questions about the priority that the Guico administration is placing on its plan to build the Reflecting Pool and Interactive Fountain that required the cutting of trees in the Capitol grounds,  Gov. Ramon Guico III remains firm in his decision to build it. The governor stressed…

VIOLATION OF LGC CONTINUES THE minority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was again denied a chance to speak out in its regular session when the opposition that comprised the majority moved for the early adjournment of the session after submitting its written manifestation. Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia of the majority bloc,…

2024 ANNUAL DAGUPAN BUDGET THE political opposition that comprise the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to be defiant and ignores Mayor Belen Fernandez’s January 17, 2024 directive to the legislative to fast track the enactment of the Proposed Annual Investment Plan and Annual Budget for 2024 it being…

FROM EAST ZAMBALES FAULT A senior official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs) warned officials of the provincial government, and of towns and cities of a “Big One” that can hit any part of Pangasinan and must prepare for it. Dr. Leonila Bautista, a senior scientist of…