WAR ON DRUGS LINGAYEN–Barangay chairmen who did not form their respective Barangay Anti-Drug-Abuse Council (BADAC) three months after assumption of office will be charged administratively. The warning came from Interior and Local Government Undersecretary for Barangay Affairs Martin Diño when he addressed barangay captains during the Anti-Drug and Peace and…
DAGUPAN City was picked as one of five towns/cities awardees of the 2017 PresidentialAward for Child-Friendly Municipalities and Cities (PACFMC) at the Heroes Hallin Malacañang Palace on December 5, 2018. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte led the awarding ceremonies for PACFMC under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)– Council…
PASKUHAN ED KAPITOLYO — Lights, sounds and dances entertain Lingayen residents and visitors during the annual and traditional lighting of giant Christmas tree art the Capitol Plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
OVER LOST LANDFILL SITE THE anomalous sale of a 30-hectare land in Barangays Awai and Bolo in San Jacinto to the Dagupan City government in 2002 during the term of then Mayor Benjamin Lim continues to hound those involved in the questionable transaction 16 years hence. The Dagupan City government…
ILLEGAL TABON ON LIM’S PREMISES IF Vice Mayor Brian Lim is finding fault in the backfilling (tabon) of fishponds as the cause of flooding in the city, then he should look no further. Mayor Belen Fernandez turned the table on Vice Mayor Brian Lim who earlier charged that flooding in Dagupan…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved the P1.480,448,000 Annual Investment Plan (AIP) of the city, including its supporting plans for Fiscal Year 2019 last week. According to Councilor Jeslito Seen, chairman on finance, the AIP is essential to the formulation of objectives, targets, budget policies and strategies for the budget year…
BAYAMBANG—A suspect in the gun slay of a former municipal councilor here last Nov. 16 was arrested by combined elements of a special investigation task group (SITG) investigating the murder. P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, Pangasinan police spokesman who is part of the SITG probing the killing of Levin Uy, said…
LINGAYEN – The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) passed a resolution urging the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to look into the propriety of the passage of resolution reappointing Dr. Dexter R. Buted as the Pangasinan State University (PSU) president despite his being declared “persona non grata” by the provincial board. During…
MANGALDAN officially joined the list of towns and cities in Pangasinan declared as drug-free by a regional Oversight Committee of the Philippine Enforcement Agency (PDEA) during a ceremony in the municipal hall on November 26. PDEA provincial head Dexter Asayto read the certification signed by PDEA Regional Director Bryan Babang, officially declaring Mangaldan as…
P2.5-B OPERATIONS SEIZED BUGALLON—An estimated P2.5-billion worth of fake cigarettes and machines were seized and 28 persons were arrested in a raid conducted by joint elements of the National Bureau of Investigation Intellectual Property Rights Division (NBI IPRD) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in a factory in Barangay…
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