LINGAYEN– The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) ordered on Monday (January 26) that the Philippine flag at the their stations be flown on half mast, following the massacre of about 50 Special Action Force (SAF) members in an encounter with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)….
ABOUT PANGASINAN’S LATEST HEROES SAN NICOLAS—The widow of one of two slain members of Special Action Forces (SAF) from Pangasinan who was among those killed in the bloody operation in Maguindanao Sunday wants justice for her husband. Miya Mejia, wife of Police Officer 2 Ephraim Mejia of Barangay Caloocan this town, both…
THE Dagupan City sanggunian finally approved the commercial operation of the ” Island Tours” developed and organized by Mayor Belen Fernandez to help boost the city’s tourism industry. The ordinance passed during its regular session last Tuesday on motion of Councilor Karlos Reyna, set the terms for the operation and management of the “Island Tours”…
TO THE RESCUE — Personnel of Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Dagupan City carry a wounded dolphin to a water tank in preparation for treatment prior to subsequent release to the sea. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
SOMEONE tried to kill and butcher the dolphins that were sighted off the Lingayen Gulf. But who? This question arose after 20 wounded dolphins were found beached in several areas along the shoreline of Lingayen to Aringay in La Union. Ten eventually died from their wounds believed to have been…
COUNCILORS’ ISSUES CLARIFIED THE city council finally passed the P691 million annual budget of Dagupan for 2015 during its regular session on Tuesday. Councilor Jeslito Seen, chairman on the appropriations committee, moved for the adoption of the budget as presented but not without an amendment introduced by minority Councilor Redford Erfe Mejia.
UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR THE BUDGET—Members of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlunsod (SP) raise their hands voting for the adoption of the proposed ordinance authorizing the enactment of the P691 million annual budget of Dagupan shortly after the deliberation on the report of Councilor Jeslito Seen, chairman on appropriations, during last week’s regular…
ILLEGAL GRANTS THE Commission on Audit (COA) has asked the Dagupan City government to demand from consultants and job order employees (JOEs) the return of the cash gifts in the amount of P3.3 million distributed to them in 2012 during the administration of then Mayor Benjamin S Lim. This was revealed…
SK CAMPAIGN PERIOD LINGAYEN– As Congress is expected to finally postpone the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections this week, the election gun ban has been put on hold which was supposed to be in effect last Friday, the official start of the campaign period. Provincial election supervisor, Atty. Marino Salas, said that…
TRAFFIC RULES STRICTLY ENFORCED IF you haven’t heard or noticed, traffic rules are now strictly enforced in Dagupan City’s commercial district and Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension (JDVEx). In just over a week’s 24/7 police operation, some 101 bikers and motorists were apprehended by the Dagupan police along the JDVEx….
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