STRIKE ONE FOR 2024 THE majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod flatly rejected the submitted supplemental budget granting P20,000 Special Recognition Incentive to regular employees and P5,000 one-time gratuity pay to job order and contractual employees of the city government. The reason? Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia of the majority bloc, claimed…

SP BYPASSED FOR DELAYING TACTICS DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez and the Department of Health decided to bypass the authority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod and signed the memorandum of agreement for the construction of a P150 million Mother and Child Hospital in Dagupan to beat the December 31 2023 deadline…

DOUBLE WHAMMY FROM MAJORITY BLOC THE majority councilors again blocked the move to construct the P150 million Mother and Child Hospital project of the Department of Health, this time by rejecting the inclusion of the same resolution they voted down last November 23, in the December 19 agenda. This after…

3 COMPONENT CITIES, 24 TOWNS MAKE IT FOR the first time since 2015, the Pangasinan provincial government failed to earn the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) award this year although three of its component cities and 24 of its component municipalities bagged the prestigious Department of the Interior and…

ANOTHER FEATHER ON THE CAP THE Dagupan City government received another feather on its cap when it was presented the Anti-Drug Abuse Council Performance Award by the regional office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). The award, signed on November 24, 2023 by DILG Regional Director…

ANOTHER GOOD PROJECT DUMPED THE committee on health and sanitation of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, manned by the majority bloc, rejected a draft resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to enter into a memorandum of agreement on behalf of the city with Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 for the construction…

611 SUCCESSFUL ANTI-DRUG OPERATIONS PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 1 said the recent arrests of 43 targeted drug personalities and 13 drug den maintainers were among the 721 persons arrested over the past 10-month period, highlighting its accomplishment from  January to October 2023. Those arrested, according to PDEA…

VM KUA TO SEEK COURT RELIEF, INJUNCTION THE minority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod manifested its own strong objection to a fresh  manifestation of the majority for the new set of substantial amendments of the SP’s Internal Rules and Procedures of the SP, which was officially submitted during the November 7…

ALSO IN TWO ‘ORANGE’ BARANGAYS THE October 30 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections in Pangasinan were characterized as generally peaceful and orderly, with no major disruptions reported. Both Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas and PNP Provincial Director P/Colonel Jeff Fanged, extended their appreciation in a joint statement to the people of Pangasinan for contributing…

3 SUSPECTS CHARGED FOR MURDER THE alleged mastermind and other suspects the killing of aspiring barangay chairman Arnel Adolfo Flor Mata in Aguilar town are already in the custody of the police after their arrest  last Thursday, October 26. P/Colonel Jeff Fanged, provincial director of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office…