CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY THE Dagupan City government earned its second Seal of Child-Friendly Local Governance Award for the second consecutive year. The Council for the Welfare of Children’s (CWC), award was received by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez from Jean P. Dawis, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Cluster Leader in…
MORE MALE RELATIVES TAGGED AS SUSPECTS LINGAYEN—More children were raped in 2015 than in 2014. The data released by the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office showed 251 rape cases of children were reported in 2015 compared to only 184 in 2014, or 67 more last year. P/Superintendent Ferdinand de Asis, head…
AFTER arresting 323 drug pushers and peddlers and confiscating Php3.7 million worth of illegal drugs in 208 operations in 2015, the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) again waxed hot at the start of 2016 with series of operations against illegal drugs in a bid to outdo its own performance last year….
MANUAL LABOR —The undermanned and ill-equipped Task Force Bantay Ilog goes about dismantling the huge illegal structures of fish pens with their bare hands after the last grace period lapsed. So far, four were removed, 300 more pens to dismantle and the costs of which will be borne by the…
DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL FISH PENS THE Dagupan City government is having its hands full in dismantling over 300 illegal fish pens that mushroomed in the city’s river tributaries that their owners refused or failed to dismantle in accordance with the agreement they reached with the former to remove the pens…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez has reconstituted the city’s Task Force Bantay Ilog in a bid to finally do away with illegal fish pens in all the waters of Dagupan City pursuant to an amended ordinance banning all illegal fish pens in the city. City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina who was retained to…
DISTRICT JAIL BY THE BEACH THE city environment and natural resources office (CENRO) here gave recommendations to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) for the pollution of the beach and the air pollution being suffered daily by the community it causes. Edward Vergara, senior environmental specialist, said based…
LINGAYEN–Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. committed P10 million purposely to mitigate the effects of El Niño phenomenon now threatening the entire province. Mr. Espino said he will seek the approval of a supplemental budget by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) as soon as possible for the purchase and installation of water…
THEY FINALLY VOTED ‘YES’ — The members of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) raise their hands to vote “Yes” for the adoption of the ordinance approving the annual budget of Dagupan City for 2016 in the amount of P768 million as proposed by the Committee on Finance. Councilor Jeslito Seen (in foreground),…
AFTER THREE-WEEK DELAY DAGUPAN’S Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP) finally passed the city’s P768 million annual budget during its regular session last January 12, ending the month-long standoff between the legislative and executive branches. The approved budget is only 11% higher than the P691 million budget in 2015. After four city councilors…
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