OPPOSITION TELLS HER TO ATTEND DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez is still willing to appear before the committee on finance, budget and appropriation’s weekly hearing on February 27 to defend the annual budget of the city despite refusal of the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod to conduct daily hearings. Fernandez…
DAGUPAN CITY’S partnership with Holcim Philippines is set to start next week with the initial delivery of a truckload of compacted plastic wastes to the Holcim cement plant in Bulacan. This was announced by Mayor Belen Fernandez who said the initial volume will be sourced from one room at the…
THE PUNCH’s issue last week reported that 34 hectares of farmlands in Tayug town were hit hard by the El Niño phenomenon. But the damage had spread – the dry spell already hit farmlands covering 173 hectares. Reports from the Department of Agriculture Region I (DA-I) show that their latest…
MORE than 100 hectares of forest, grass, and mountain in Barangay Malico, San Nicolas town Tuesday morning, February 13 were razed all because of a lighted cigarette butt thrown by riding tourist. Shallom Balolong of the San Nicolas Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said they received report of…
KASALANG BAYAN IN LINGAYEN – Ninety four couples happily tied the knot at the Lingayen local government’s “Kasalang Bayan 2024” held on, Valentine’s Day, February 14 at Lingayen Civic Center in Lingayen. Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil officiated the wedding in the ceremony attended by the vice mayor, councilors and town officials. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE construction of the P15-million Mother and Child Hospital in Dagupan City will continue in spite of the refusal of the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod to endorse the resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Health for its establishment. Health…
THE Public Health Center (PHC) was inaugurated simultaneously with the groundbreaking of the Nuclear Medicine Facility (NMF), at the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC)-Annex on February 13 which Dr. Roland Mejia, the R1MC center chief said, is another milestone. Mejia said the twin events is a model of the Department…
FLOWERS FOR LOVERS – The mad rush for flowers in markets show that lovers, couples and singles take to Valentine’s Day as D-Day for sharing love at all costs, (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
FOR NON-PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS THE Dagupan City government stands to be slapped with P500,000 in penalty if it will not pay Pag-Ibig Fund’s increased premium of its officials and employees made effective on February 1 this year. City Legal Officer Aurora Valle said the city government cannot pay the premiums…
WITH the onion harvest season reaching its peak, farmgate prices came crashing down in Bayambang. Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture Region I (DA-I) reported that selling price of onion in public markets have plunged 200%, from P180 per kilogram to P40 to P50 per kilogram. Onion grower Ronnie Ringor of…
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