By Ermin Garcia Jr. I CANNOT imagine what can be worse as a sign of blatant disrespect for the office of the vice mayor and the presiding officer by the opposition in the Sangguniang Panlungsod than for them to ignore his order, declare the session adjourned without ruling from…
UNITY FOR UNSUSTAINABLE GOALS – The Dagupan City government leads government officials, business sector, students and faculty of city schools, colleges and universities in the unity walk along the De Venecia Highway to promote greater awareness about the need to help achieve UN’s goals. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
VM KUA REFUSED TO ACT ON MOTION PER DILG RULE THE seven opposition councilors who comprise the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod again walked out of the February 6 regular session after Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod presiding officer Bryan Kua refused to rule on the privilege motion of…
2024 DAGUPAN CHILDREN’S SUMMIT THE 2024 Children’s Summit in Dagupan City held last week at CSI Stadia engaged students, parents and teachers on the importance of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in their development which the city of Dagupan is committed to pursue until 2030. Attended by…
2024 GOOD FINANCIAL HOUSEKEEPING ALL local government units in Pangasinan, except one, were acknowledged by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as recipients of the 2023 Good Financial Housekeeping (GFH). In an announcement last week, DILG said the provincial government of Pangasinan and its four cities—Dagupan, San…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed the “Comprehensive Smoke-Free Ordinance of the Province of Pangasinan” regulating the use, sale, distribution, and advertisement of cigarettes and other tobacco products, electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems and other novel tobacco products in certain places and imposing penalties for violations thereof to instill health consciousness and for other…
BEWARE OF CUTE-LOOKING PUPS SEVEN residents of Barangay Navaluan in Mangaldan town were bitten by a puppy that turned out to be rabies-positive. The puppy died after biting the victims. The Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory confirmed the specimen’s infection. Consequently, the town’s Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) immediately launched a…
REFLECTING POOL-INTERACTIVE FOUNTAIN AMID questions about the priority that the Guico administration is placing on its plan to build the Reflecting Pool and Interactive Fountain that required the cutting of trees in the Capitol grounds, Gov. Ramon Guico III remains firm in his decision to build it. The governor stressed…
VALENTINE FOREVERMORE — Spotted in a gasoline station in Dagupan City is a flowers-bedecked two-door sports van highlighted by stuffed toys owned by a couple from Baguio City. The couple reportedly also decorates their vehicle during Christmas and Halloween with traditional images. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
A claim by opposition councilors that department heads are being prevented from attending the weekly committee hearings on the city’s annual budget to delay the process was vehemently denied by Mayor Belen Fernandez in a text message to The PUNCH. “It’s not true,” Mayor Fernandez’s text message reads when asked…
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