DAGUPAN CHRISTMAS SKY—Fireworks brighten up the sky on Christmas Eve as seen from the Dagupan City Plaza. Dagupan celebrates its annual fiesta every December in honor of its patron saint, St. John the Evangelist. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
DAGUPAN City’s P628 million budget for 2014 has been approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), passing an ordinance for the proposed expenditures during its final regular session for the year last week. Ordinance No. 2001-2013 authored by Councilor Jeslito Seen, SP chairman on finance, was approved unanimously by all eight…
OPERATION TULONG YOLANDA LINGAYEN—Members of the 113-man “Operation Tulong Yolanda” team from the provincial government came back changed from their experience of helping the survivors of what is considered one of the worst calamities in history. Fifth District Board Member Clemente Arboleda Jr., who headed the team, said going to…
INVESTIGATION SOUGHT ROAD lots are beyond the commerce of man and therefore cannot be sold to any private person or even entity. This was the opinion given by Rufino Moreno Jr. of the Register of Deeds when sought by Mayor Belen Fernandez who wants the policy of the City Treasurer since…
HELP FOR FISHERFOLK—Senator Alan Peter Cayetano encourages fishermen and fish vendors at the Magsaysay fish market in Dagupan City to organize and establish their own micro-financing program that will allow them to pay lower interest rates for short term loans for their livelihood. Cayetano was in Dagupan to fulfill a…
STOP “5-6” FOR SURVIVAL SENATOR Alan Cayetano urges market vendors in Dagupan to organize and adopt micro-financing project as an alternative to the usurious “5-6” practice of loan sharks in public markets. Cayetano, the senate majority floor leader, was in Dagupan on December 15 to fulfill his pledge to assist…
EMPLOYEES of the city government, particularly the regular workers, rejoiced when the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed Supplemental Budget No. 4 last week, allotting P38.9 million for various expenditures of the city government up to the end of the year. The approval of the measure was made during a special session…
MS. DAGUPAN 2013—Eighteen-year old Beatrix Corrine Boquiren (center) from Barangay Bonuan Boquig is this year’s Ms. Dagupan with Shylie Jenerish Cayabyab (left) of Bonuan Gueset as 2nd runner-up and Tristan Kyle Torio from Mayombo as 1st runner-up. The coronation night is on December 26, one of the highlights of the…
A REJOINDER by the city government to the letter of the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) denying the request of Mayor Belen Fernandez for the transfer of an electric meter owned by the city located at the former MC Adore Hotel will have to wait till after new year’s day. Fernandez confirmed that…
LINGAYEN—Senior Superintendent Marlou Chan, after a year of controversial assignment as chief of the provincial police, has stepped out of his Pangasinan post effective December 17. After Chan received his new designation as chief regional directorial staff during a conference at the regional office Tuesday afternoon, he sent a text…
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