TAMAYO RESOLUTION THE proposed resolution of Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo seeking to create an ad hoc blue ribbon committee in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to look into the open-letter complaint of The PUNCH editor-publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. which was published in his column two weeks ago, is already included in…
DAGUPAN FUND SHORTAGE THE severe budget deficit created by the Lim administration finally takes its toll on the ranks of emergency workers (EWs) and consultants hired by the Fernandez administration and benefits of volunteer workers. The number of EWs, also called Job Order Employees (JOEs), as well as consultants of the…
RECORDS released by the City Accounting Office on September 27 indicate that four Dagupan City officials have not liquidated the financial assistance of varying amounts released to them by the city government during the previous administration of former Mayor Benjamin Lim. They are former councilor and now Vice Mayor Brian…
A resolution was filed in the Sangguniang Panlungsod seeking the creation of an ad hoc blue ribbon committee to handle the open letter complaint of The PUNCH editor-publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. published in The PUNCH’s Sep. 22 issue against some officials of Dagupan City. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, who proposed…
LINGAYEN–An inter-agency committee has been formed by the provincial government to investigate the proliferation of commercial floating fish cages near Cabalantian Island in Sual Bay, feared to be posing serious danger to the 1,200 megawatt Sual Coal-fired Power Plant.
ON ILLEGAL DRUGS ALL the 31 barangays of Dagupan City are “drug affected” with five of these considered as critically affected based on the parameters set by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) headed by Secretary Antonio Villar Jr. Supt. Christopher Abrahano, chief of police of Dagupan, identified the critically affected…
IF DETRACTORS CAN PROVE ANOMALY BINMALEY–Mayor Simplicio Rosario said he is willing to resign from his post if his detractors can show proof he benefited from the Malampaya fund, portions of which he and 16 other mayors of Pangasinan allegedly received. In a press conference Wednesday, Rosario discussed the Malampaya…
AFTER weeks of contradicting reports about the actual number of illegal fish pens dismantled, the Bantay Ilog Task Force, led by City Agriculturist Emma Molina, admitted that it has failed to meet the deadline set by Mayor Belen Fernandez. The team still has 12 more structures to demolish this week.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE MESS BENEFICIARIES of millions of pesos of so-called “financial assistance” extended by the Dagupan City under the administration of former Mayor Benjamin Lim, which have remained unliquidated, will soon be receiving a letter of demand from city hall. Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered the City Accounting Office (CAO) to…
UNFINISHED BUSINESS THE full dismantling of the illegal fish pens in Dagupan City has not been completed after all as earlier reported by City Agriculturist Emma Molina. Task Force Bantay Ilog has asked for another week of extension starting September 18 to finally do away with all illegal fish pens…
© 2026 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
