CELEBRATING RECONCILIATION—Fourth District Gina de Venecia (center) joins Dagupan City officials led by Mayor Belen Fernandez and Vice Mayor Marc Brian Lim in victory mood after their oath taking at CSI Stadia last June 28. With are Councilors Jeslito Seen, Chester Gonzales (SK president), Karlos Teyna, Maybelyn Fernandez, Redfo9rd Mejia,…
Mayor Belen Fernandez vowed to create a new and revitalized Dagupan to be drawn along the lines of her motto: “Pag-asa at Pagbabago“. The new mayor spelled out her plan to make a “Balon Dagupan”, a vision shared by many Dagupeños including city officials and employees of the local government who…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas called on the new set of elected officials in Dagupan City during their oath-taking ceremony Friday to “love the opposition”. Villegas told city leaders led by the new mayor, Belen Fernandez, “to make your heart bigger”. “Love the opposition. Love those who say no to our…
TALLEST HOSPITAL—Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia and Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez lower the time capsule marking the groundbreaking for the construction of the P1.6 billion 11-storey building of the Region I Medical Center. With them are Dr. Betha Fe Castillo, Pangasinan Medical Society president; Undersecretary Elmer Punzalan, former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.,…
GROUNDBREAKING for the P1.6-billion 11-storey building at the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) was held June 25, coinciding with the 115th anniversary celebration of the Department of Health (DOH). DOH Assistant Secretary Elmer Punzalan led the rites with Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia, her husband former Speaker Jose de…
SALE NULLIFICATION CASE THE buyer in the controversial sale of the MC Adore Hotel in Dagupan has filed a petition seeking to intervene in the case filed in court on the nullification of a resolution giving outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim the authority to proceed with the property transaction. AMB ALC…
“THEY are buyers in bad faith.” This was the response of lawyer Borromeo Bustamante, counsel of Sangguniang Panlungsod Secretary Ryan Ravanzo, on the petition to intervene filed by the buyers of the MC Adore Hotel in Dagupan City on the case questioning the authority given to outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim…
UNITY WALK—Workers of the city government, in solidarity with incoming Mayor Belen Fernandez, join a unity walk from Perez Boulevard to the Dagupan People’s Astrodome as part of the celebration of the 66th Agew na Dagupan held June 20, which was declared by Malacanang as an official non-working holiday in the city. (Photo…
LINGAYEN—The beleaguered police provincial director of Pangasinan was finally relieved from his post effective Friday, June 21 following an order from Camp Crame, the Philippine National Police headquarters. Senior Supt. Marlou Chan, who was earlier declared persona non grata by the provincial board and is facing a court case filed…
THE Pangasinan Press Club Inc., represented by its president Atty. Gonzalo T. Duque, scored a first-round victory in a civil action it filed against another group of media men when the Regional Trial Court (RTC) ordered a status quo in “so far as the matter of controversy is concerned.” The order…
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