WHILE Mayor Belen Fernandez expressed her gratitude to the city councilors for their support for eventually approving the P768 million annual city budget of Dagupan, she took exception to the “baseless accusations, allegations and, suspicions” aired by four councilors in their respective privilege speeches. In an interview, Fernandez said while…

THE Dagupan City Police has set its eyes on making 6 barangays (or 20 percent of the 31 barangays) finally drug-free in 2016. The new goal was bared by P/Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, chief of police of Dagupan, as he affirmed that his station managed to double its efforts in the…

MAYOR Belen Fernandez will personally lead the Task Force Bantay Ilog to see to the demolition of illegal fish pens whose owners ignored her ultimatum last year, effectively rebuking her City Agricultural Officer for deciding to suspend the dismantling of illegal fish pens operating in the city’s tributaries. The mayor…

LINGAYEN—Last week, Pangasinan received the assignment and designation of another Officer-in-Charge, provincial director at the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO), the 8th since 2012. It was in the morning of January 8 when the PPPO received an order from the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) relieving P/Senior Superintendent Rolie Saltat as…

SUAL—The town’s mayor protested the construction of  “grab type” coal ship unloader by the 1, 218 megawatt Sual coal-fired power plant in Barangay Pangascasan here, in violation of an agreement and he expressed alarm over the impact of its use on the town’s environment. Mayor Roberto Arcinue, citing a resolution passed…

BAYAMBANG—The local government will have to operate under a reenacted budget until the office of the municipal mayor satisfactorily explains the questionable items in the proposed budget, among them a budget item for a project that was completed in 2013. The councilors refused to approve the town’s proposed 2016 P220…

BUDGET STALEMATE OVER THE people of Dagupan City can now heave a sigh of relief. There will be no further delay in the implementation of projects in the city. City Mayor Belen Fernandez, in a phone call to The PUNCH last Friday before its deadline, said the stalemate over the…

OVER COMELEC RULING ON CITIZENSHIP BASISTA—Residents here formed a human barricade at the town hall starting at 5:30 a.m. on January 6 to press the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to issue a writ of execution after the Supreme Court affirmed the poll body’s decision for the ouster of the mayor…

THE Dagupan City Agriculture Office’s (CAO) “Bantay Ilog” task force has no plans of dismantling the illegal fish pens until it has completed the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of City Ordinance no. 2048-2015, prohibiting the establishment of fish pens. Emma Molina, city agriculture officer, said the IRR draft is…