SILG ABALOS GETS BRIEFER A BRIEFER on the passage of P864.91 million annual budget of Dagupan City was handed to Interior and Local Government Secretary Ben Hur Abalos by Mayor Belen Fernandez last April 30 when he was in Dagupan to spearhead the BIDA Fun Run and to do the…

PANGASINAN GOES TO BUSINESS THE Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) has granted a P6.8 billion loan to the provincial government of Pangasinan for its monumental projects, including the construction of several land ports and terminals along the planned 166-kilometer Pangasinan Link Expressway (PLEX). This was confirmed by LBP President…

SOME LOST ITEMS RESTORED THE City of Dagupan and its people awaits with bated breath the review of the approved P864.91 million annual budget passed by the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) on March 28, by the regional office of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which was…

9 ITEMS CITED IN VETO MAYOR Belen Fernandez submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod an eight-page partial veto of Ordinance No. 2257-2023 that allocated only P864.91million annual budget, far from the P1,3 billion that was proposed by her at 3:02 pm on April 13. Specifically, line items she vetoed were: The…

INDIGNATION RALLY VS. ANTI-POOR BUDGET WHAT was supposed to be a simple flag-raising ceremony last April 3 turned out to an indignation rally led by many of the more than 700 job order employees who were laid off because the seven majority councilors in the Sanggunian Panlungsod did not provide…

SP MAJORITY SABOTAGES CITY HALL MARCH 28 was considered the saddest day in Dagupan’s history when the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod asserted its supremacy over the minority in amending the proposed resolution approving the Annual Investment Plan (AIP) as well as all its integral plans and a proposed ordinance approving an…

TO RESTORE DISCIPLINE AND ORDER RESIDENTS and visitors of Dagupan beware! Mayor Belen Fernandez has issued Executive Order No. 17 reconstituting ‘Task Force Disciplina,’  redefining its functions for a stricter enforcement of the city ordinance ‘Artikulo Biente Uno’. The move seeks not only to instill more discipline and love for…

TO SECURE BARANGAY, SK ELECTIONS AS the date for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) draws near, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has intensified its monitoring of operations of suspected guns-for-hire and private armed groups in the province. In an interview Wednesday, March 15, P/Colonel Jeff Fanged, provincial…

VM KUA’S ACTIONS SUSTAINED THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) sustained Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod presiding officer Bryan Kua’s decision when the later did not adjourn the regular session on February 7 right away despite the motion to adjourn by the majority while Dagupan City Mayor…

REVIEW OF ANNUAL BUDGETS OF 31 BARANGAYS THE members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod attempted to set public hearings on the annual budgets of the 31 barangays before proceeding further with its hearings on the city’s proposed 2023 budget but this was foiled by the members of…