TWO committees of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) will seek the endorsement on Tuesday of an ordinance seeking the realignment of P27 million from part of the funds allocated by the past city administration for the Maternal Child Care and Lying-in Hospital. The realignment was proposed by the City Development…

OFFICIALS of government agencies as well as mining companies are lying when they say there is no hydrological connection between the Agno River and the Pantal-Sinocalan River that drains water to Dagupan before exiting to the Lingayen Gulf.

DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez has vowed to push for a “bottom-up” planning when she held a meeting with the City Development Council composed of the 31 barangay chairmen, members of non-government organizations (NGOs) and representatives of civil society in in the city.

LINGAYEN–The provincial government has enlisted the help of the “Shore it Up: Rescue, Restore, Revive” campaign of the Metro Pacific Investment Foundation in cleaning and reviving both the Lingayen Gulf and the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City.

STRUCK BY A LIGHTNING—A statue of former Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon on one of the islands in the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City, named in his honor, was struck by a lightning, leaving it faceless. Mayor Art Celeste said the damaged statue will be restored as soon…

LINGAYEN—Soon, Pangasinenses need not travel to La Union or Pasay City to secure a passport. A regional office of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will open at the Robinson’s mall in Calasiao by the fourth quarter of the year. The new office, a part of the DFA’s mobile e-passporting…

AFTER the recently concluded registration for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in October, San Carlos City discovered 47 voter registrants who either registered twice, failed to meet age requirement or failed to appear during oathtaking.

FOLLOWING a survey that shows a continued increase in teenage pregnancies in Dagupan, the city Population Commission (POPCOM) office has sought the cooperation of owners of motels and beach sheds to ban teenagers in their premises unless accompanied by adults.

WITH the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections coming in October, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 1 is now on alert on the possible abuse by potential candidates of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s (4Ps) for political intent.