AFTER DEFERMENT MOVE FAILED THE seven-man majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod introduced substantial amendments to the council’s Internal Rules of Procedures (IRP), in response to Vice Mayor Bryan Kua’s role in the 2023 budget dispute. Among the amendments to the IRP include provisions for virtual attendance at council sessions…

LEGAL BATTLE INSIDE DAGUPAN SP THREE members of the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) are facing criminal complaints for illegal detention, oppression, and slander in connection with an incident that occurred during the October 10 SP session. Vice Mayor Bryan Kua, along with minority bloc councilors Michael Fernandez,…

AFTER DELAYED APPROVAL OF 2023 APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE MAYOR Belen Fernandez is set to recommend a P1.385 billion budget for the city government for the year 2024. The mayor made the announcement after the Dagupan’s Local Development Council (LDC) approved the mayor’s presentation of the proposed annual budget of Dagupan for…

WITH ONLY 4 MAJORITY MEMBERS PRESENT   IN a strategic move, the minority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod took advantage of the absence of three majority councilors, who were on personal leave, and finally passed the shelved P1.3 billion annual budget of Dagupan for 2023. With five members from the…

FUTURE OF ‘AGUILA’ ALLIANCE DOUBTED THE political alliance that brought together Guico-Lambino-Cojuangco in 2022 is showing signs of strain after Governor Ramon Guico III raised concerns about the 10-kilometer Lingayen Beach Seawall initiated by Second District Representative Mark Cojuangco and implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)….

SANS ECC AND MASTER PLAN GOV. Ramon Guico III questioned the Department of Public Works and Highways’ (DPWH) construction of a seawall without an Environmental Compliance Certificate in an environmentally protected area in Lingayen-Binmaley coastline covered by a presidential proclamation. Presidential Decree 156 series of 1993 signed by then President…

AFTER ONE WEEK BASED on the latest inspection and price monitoring operation conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for rice retailers in Pangasinan, at least 80 percent of rice retailers in Pangasinan have since started to comply with Executive Order (EO) No. 39, that President Ferdinand Marcos,…

AFTER concluding the committee hearings, the seven-man majority in the Dagupan  Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution during the August 29 SP regular session, asking Mayor Belen Fernandez to stop the ongoing elevation and construction of drainage canals in Dagupan City. The measure was, however, strongly opposed by the five-man…

CALLS FOR CONSTRUCTION TO STOP THE five-man minority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod abstained from voting when the majority passed a resolution echoing the “sentiments” of residents, students and traders affected by the elevation of roads and drainage system on Arellano Street and A. B. Fernandez Avenue East. Councilor Michael Fernandez,…

A BIG BOON TO THE CITY CONSULTATION was conducted last August 8 in Barangay Bonuan Gueset to gauge the reaction of fishermen regarding the proposed river restoration project by dredging along heavily silted river channels. A project of the national government, the activity was also part of the application process…