By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE resolution issued by Associate Provincial Prosecutor Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting City Prosecutor for Dagupan City in response to the motion for reconsideration (MR) filed by Dagupan City Councilor Irene Lim-Acosta is, indeed, refreshing. It came across as a distinct call to all and sundry for…
By Gonzalo Duque I happened to get hold of a copy of a resolution of Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting city prosecutor for Dagupan, denying the motion for reconsideration made by Councilor Irene-Lim Acosta, one of the respondents in the case filed by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua against the three majority…
Fluent and intelligent resolution
By Leonardo Micua I HAVE a gut feeling that the seven majority councilors who boycotted the regular session of the Dagupan Sanggunian again last week are giving the message that they have no intention of passing the 2024 annual budget after three of their group were indicted by the…
No annual budget again from the majority
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I finally reached my destination at Sky Villas thirty minutes after the appointed time. I know I will be late, given the traffic situation, but the driver told me, “Di na ho tayo mag-Waze, waste of time. May alam po akong short cut!” I learned…
Short cut
By Farah G. Decano I am extremely happy that Dagupan’s version of the Smokey Mountain located in Bonuan is now being addressed by the present administration. It is not to say that Mayor Belen Fernandez sat on the garbage problem during her first two terms in the years 2013…
Efforts to waste
By Eva c. Visperas I first met him more than 10 years ago in Malasiqui town at the farmhouse of the congresswoman of the third district of Pangasinan. On March 10, I met him again at a restaurant in Bonuan Tondaligan, Dagupan City. A kabaleyan, a Dagupeño is back….
Unfinished mission
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER five years, the revival of annual Mapandan bikefest regularly conducted in the past in conjunction with the celebration of its Pandan Festival, will finally be realized on March 18 under the leadership of the town’s new chief executive Karl Christian F. Vega. According…
Revival of Mapandan bikefest set on March 18
By Rex Catubig SABEL, for her part, chooses to set up her “pakanan” — a street version of fast-food, further down the main street, in front of a store that is already closed for the night, and just slightly across the CSI Square. In a departure from the carinderia-caldero-caserola…
Sabel of the night (Part 2)
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT’S beginning to be frustrating and disappointing to see how the investigation of the scandalous sale of NFA’s buffer rice stock is proceeding even with a high ranking official of the agency as whistleblower. Whistleblower Lemuel Paguyuan, Assistant Administrator for operations, surely knows whence he…
NFA buffer stock, not for sale
By Gonzalo Duque IN my enthusiasm to bring a civil case against the majority councilors in our city, I started getting in touch with our friends at the Dagupan City Hall. But I suffered an initial snag because Mayor Belen Fernandez has not been taking my calls. Ditto with…