ANOTHER FIRST FOR DAGUPAN AFTER the stringent austerity measures adopted by the Fernandez administration in 2013 to cover budget deficit left by the Lim administration, the Dagupan City government finally reported an unprecedented P53 million-budget surplus in 2014. According to City Budget Officer Luz De Guzman, the surplus was made…

K to 12’s SHS IMPLEMENTATION “NEVER fear” was the message of Department of Education Secretaty Armin Luistro to participants that attended the National Senior High School (SHS) Summit sponsored by the Department of Education and the Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID) at Diamond Hotel in Manila last week. Imelda Gonzales,…

LINGAYEN— What is it about schools that prompted a series of burglary in 23 schools this year alone? The cases of robberies victimizing public schools so alarmed the province’s police director that he directed the police chiefs in the province to solve the cases. P/Sr. Supt. Reynaldo Biay, officer-in-charge at…

CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY DAGUPAN CITY was adjudged among the top 3 national finalists for the 2014 Presidential Award for Most Child-Friendly Cities under the independent component city category. Other contenders were Santiago City and Cotabato City. Santiago City won the award.

OVER TOBACCO EXCISE TAX USE ALCALA— A non-government organization based in this town filed a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman against 18 former and incumbent municipal officials for alleged misappropriation of the town’s share in the tobacco excise tax. Save Pangasinan Movement, Inc. (SPM) led by its chairman,…

BOLINAO—The fisherfolk of Anda and Bolinao towns rejoiced over the declaration of their coasts as red tide- free but it was short-lived after waking up to another environmental catastrophe – a series of fish kills that resulted in losses of millions of pesos worth of bangus spawned by extremely hot…

LINGAYEN— “…a certain place is number 1 if it is near to your heart.” For many, it was the response during the Q & A portion of the pageant that many felt made Maybelle Pameroyan deserving to win the Limgas na Pangasinan 2015 crown. Pameroyan, a 22-year-old high school teacher from Sta….

THE city council finally passed the P65.3 million supplemental proposed by Mayor Belen Fernandez during a special session on Wednesday attended by eight councilors. In passing the supplemental budget, Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo noted the reported P53.6 million surplus registered by the city in 2014. Mr. Tamayo described the surplus as something…