IMPROVING CITY’S REVENUES—Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez, also the mayor-elect of Dagupan, introduces a better deployment system for the city’s market collectors to improve their efficiency and increase the daily cash ticket collections in and around the public market. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
TILL DECEMBER 2013 DAGUPAN City is not only broke, it is also neck-deep in debts. A disconnection notice for unpaid electric bills for public schools from February to May worth close to P1 million was recently sent by the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) to city hall on June 3, the…
LINGAYEN—Please step down. This was the message sent by members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to Sr. Supt. Marlou Chan, police provincial director, in a resolution that formally expresses their support to the case filed by Governor Amado Espino Jr. seeking his ouster.
BAUANG– A former police chief of Dagupan City who was accused of being a protector of a clandestine shabu laboratory busted by authorities in July 2008 was sentenced on July 5 to life imprisonment by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) here. Superintendent Dionicio Borromeo, currently assigned as deputy director of the Cavite police provincial office, was…
THE 66th Agew na Dagupan celebration will kick off on June 12, coinciding with the nationwide celebration of Philippine Independence Day. Superintendent Gloria Torres, head of the Department of Education Dagupan City Division which is leading the festivities, said last week a tentative list of activities has been prepared and…
EDUCATION officials around the province are still pleased with the turnout of students on the opening day of classes last June 3 even as they continue to struggle with problems posed by severe lack of classrooms in public schools. In Urdaneta, Dr. Joy Fernandez, city schools division superintendent, said some schools…
SIXTY-six years after it became a city and known for its tasty bangus, Dagupan will finally soon have its own modern and large fish port that is expected to dramatically improve the aquaculture industry not just in the city but in the entire province of Pangasinan as well. Pangasinan 4th…
MAYOR-elect Belen Fernandez is inheriting an empty coffer from outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim by July 1. Records are finally showing the city, indeed, had incurred a deficit of P21.6 million in 2012 contrary to what was officially reported in the trial balance that it registered a surplus of P1 million, and the…
ILLEGAL FISH PEN INSPECTION—Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez (in light green top) leads an ocular inspection of the rivers of Dagupan and the illegal fish pens around island barangays on board a motorboat of the City Agriculture Office. She ordered the immediate demolition of the illegal fishpens that have proliferated over…
THE sudden proliferation of illegal fishpens in most of the rivers in Dagupan is financed by some 25 businessmen who are reportedly supporters of outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim and contributed to his campaign funds for the May 13 election. City Agriculturist Emma Molina, speaking during the KBP forum on Thursday,…
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