NFA RICE STILL P32 THE end for the period of spiraling prices of rice is here. Households in Pangasinan can begin to expect price of commercial rice to lower in the weeks ahead because the harvest season has started and the imported rice ordered by government will start arriving in…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), in a special session Wednesday afternoon, passed a resolution declaring a new a State of Calamity in Dagupan City. Resolution No. R-5683, authored by Majority Floor Leader Maybelyn Fernandez, was passed after lifting a prior declaration issued two months on July 18, 2018 when the city…
SP declares 2nd State of Calamity for Dagupan
AN ordinance passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod regulating the conduct of backfilling of lots as a result of reclassification supposedly under the city’s zoning ordinance passed sometime in 2016 was vetoed by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Vetoed was Ordinance No. 2147-2018 authored by Councilor Nicanor Aquino, chairman on the committee…
Mayor Fernandez vetoes anti-backfilling ordinance
USUAL LAST MINUTE REGISTRATION – As expected, hundreds of Dagupan voters queue at the Dagupan Comelec office to register for the 2019 election, one day before September 29 deadline. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
USUAL LAST MINUTE REGISTRATION
DON’T be surprised if more senatorial wannabes begin to frequent Pangasainan starting next month. Reason? Pangasinan registered 108,633 new voters as of last September 27, making the province still one with the most number of voters in the country. Atty. Marino Salas, provincial election officer of Pangasinan said the number is…
Pangasinan expects 1.8-M voters for 2019 election
IF prices of commodities in Manila are high owing to reported shortage, that is not the case in the region. There are enough supply of fish and vegetables in the region and can be bought at lower prices except for a few items . This was determined by Department of…
Food shortage in NCR, not in Pangasinan – BFAR
LINGAYEN–Five more drug pushers were arrested by the police in separate drug buy-bust operations in seven towns in Pangasinan last week, the Police Provincial Police Office (PPPO) reported. In Bayambang, Philip Iglesias, 42, a tricycle driver and a former drug surrenderer, fell in a buy-bust operation conducted by the police, in coordination…
10 drug pushers fall in buy-bust operations
AND THERE THEY GO! — Residents brave boarding the unsafe kuligligs that have taken over the streets in Dagupan City, being the only available and dry-proof transport around the flooded city. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
AND THERE THEY GO!
OMPONG WREAKS HAVOC LINGAYEN— Super Typhoon “Ompong” wreaked havoc the most on the lives of farmers and fishermen in Pangasinan when initial estimate of damage to agriculture reached more than P1 billion as of 9 A.M. of September 21. A Situational Report of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management…
Farmers, fisherfolk suffer P1-B in losses
AN ordinance in Dagupan City that requires motorcycle riders to remove their helmets upon entering and while within the city limits of Dagupan in order to be identified and submit to a reasonable search by the police was declared null and void by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Dagupan City. Declared as…




