BAYAMBANG MAYOR VS. DEPED BAYAMBANG—In the midst of the conflict between the mayor here and the Department of Education (DepEd) Pangasinan I Division over the Bayambang 1 Central School, the children and their parents have been made to suffer. This situation arose after the Regional Trial Court  (RTC) issued a…

UNKNOWN to the riding public, the now defunct River Cruise tourist ferries and all passengers boats plying the waters of Dagupan City have been operating without the required registration with the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina). But that is about to change with better coordination between Marina and the city government…

DAGUPAN FUND CRISIS THE INITIAL belt-tightening in the Dagupan City Hall is not enough to see the city through its financial crisis. This became apparent after City Budget Officer Luz de Guzman proposed to raise P3.5 million to alleviate situation by slashing budgets of the city departments to the extent…

HEADS must roll. This was the recommendation of a ranking Dagupan official, echoing the call of the public to bring to court those involved in dragging the city into its current financial crisis with not enough left in the coffer to cover expenses until the end of the year. City…

SUAL LGU-POWER PLANT CONFLICT SUAL–The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) slammed the fish cages, majority of which were observed to be dangerously close to the 1,200 megawatt-Sual Coal-fired Power Plant, and ordered a stop to their operations.

 SUAL FISH CAGES CONTROVERSY LINGAYEN—Keep them but move them. This is how the inter-agency committee formed by Governor Amado Espino Jr. proposes to resolve the issues and the problems posed by the proliferation of commercial floating fish cages near the periphery of the Sual Coal-fired Power Plant at Baquioen Bay…

FORMER Sual Mayor John Rodney Arcinue defended the proliferation of fish cages and assured that these are in accordance with their municipal fishery ordinance, and not a threat to the operations of the coal-fired Sual Plant.

SAVING A DOLPHIN—A member of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) rescue team points to the wound of a rare striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) found beached in Lingayen on October 4. The 2.2-meter mammal was later ferried by Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) personnel at…

GOV. Amado Espino Jr. took up the cudgels for the province’s farmers and appealed to Secretary Proceso Alcala to expedite the completion of Phase III of the San Roque Dam project that will service Pangasinan’s irrigation canals.

THE CITY is in for more belt-tightening in the last quarter of the year. This as city treasurer officially declared a projected revenue collection shortfall of P30 million from the P612 million targeted for collection until the end of the year, a big setback to the new city administration of…