REMEMBERING RIZAL’S MARTYRDOM A LITTLE known trivia about the country’s national hero shocked the unsuspecting audience that gathered to observe the 118th year of martyrdom of Dr. Jose Rizal in Dagupan City on December 30. At the program hosted by the Free Masons of the Philippines, Michael Camilo Datario, the…

CITY’S MEMENTO OF RIZAL’S PAST A MORE than 100-year old piano of Leonor Rivera, a childhood sweetheart of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, believed taken by an aunt of Leonor to Bulacan when she and family moved there, will soon be returned to Dagupan where it really belongs. City Councilor Jeslito Seen chair of the committee…

A CONTINGENCY plan for the operation of the Dagupan City government under a reenacted budget is already being prepared in the event the sanggunian panlungsod decides to permanently shelve the proposed P691 million city budget for 2015. City Budget Officer Luz de Guzman said on orders of Mayor Belen Fernandez, her office is now…

THE colorful fluvial parade was a rare sight by the city’s main rivers that will be long remembered by Dagupeños. For the Dagupan City government and the Catholic archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan that collaborated to stage a colorful and meaningful celebration of Dagupan’s 400th year as a parish and the city’s…

NO PORK BARREL FOR COUNCILORS WHILE bracing herself to run the city government with a reenacted budget after the members the Sanggunian Panlungsod failed to approve the proposed 2015 budget, Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez said she is still hopeful the councilors will be moved to approve it early next month….

LINGAYEN– Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan described as “very harsh and sweeping indictment” the order of the Office of the Omnbudsman dismissing him and Alvin Bigay, provincial housing and urban development officer. “This is a sad development considering that the motion for reconsideration of the resolution which we filed remains pending…

PREVENTIVE MEASURE LINGAYEN– Here we go again! The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) started sealing some 2,000 muzzles of short and long firearms with masking tape last week to help ensure that no police personnel will be involved in any indiscriminate firing of their guns during the holiday season preceding…

VIDEO RECORDED INACTION ROSALES— When the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) ordered higher police visibility in all towns, three policemen in this town took that order literally to heart – simply to be visible and do nothing else. For simply being visible but failing to arrest a politician’s relative for…

TARGET: ZERO-CASUALTY STO. TOMAS—What does a quiet town like Sto. Tomas do to ensure that it maintains a record zero-casualty during the holidays until New Year? It bans the sale and lighting of firecrackers! The only town in the province to do so. The only other local government unit in…

OMBUDSMAN’S ORDER LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Two top ranking officials of the provincial government of Pangasinan were dismissed from service following the implementation of a joint resolution of the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the alleged unlawful magnetite mining operations in this coastal town. In a memorandum signed by Department of Interior and…