THE recent severe flooding experience by almost all the barangays in Dagupan City became a fodder for all types of critical commentary by opposing political groups in social media. The groups opposed to the Fernandez administration blame Mayor Belen for aggravating the flood situation by allowing the DPWH to construct…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. LAST week, the sun was out. The city streets were dry. Stores were open. Cars, jeepneys, tricycles and motorcycles were back with a vengeance hugging the city streets. Vendors occupied dry sidewalks. Most everyone resumed their daily routines in Dagupan City. Worse, images of the…
RENIER Ranges, an incoming grade 12 student at the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF), brought home one gold and a silver medal when he represented Region 1 in the track events in the just concluded Palarong Pambansa, held in Marikina from July 30 to August 5. Ranges clinched a gold…
DAGUPAN’S BUDDY BACK FOR RELIEF OPERATIONS – Senator Imee Marcos, accompanied by Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez, gives children affected by the severe flooding toys and nutribuns to be brought home. (Punchphoto by Leonardo Micua)
SENATOR Imee Marcos, elder sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., expressed dismay on learning that action on the 2023 annual budget of Dagupan is still pending and the city is still operating on a reenacted budget. “Nabalitaan ko nga yong mga maanghang na batuhan sa Facebook”, Senator Marcos said laughing,…
A TOTAL of 2,500 tricycle drivers and operators of Dagupan benefitted from the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the efforts of Senator Imee Marcos who came to the city on August 5. Mayor Belen Fernandez said when all…
FLOODS have already subsided in all of Dagupan City except in certain areas in Barangays Lasip Chico and Malued. This was reported by Roland de Guzman, head of the technical working group of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) in an interview over IFM Radio Dagupan on…
THE committee on infrastructure of Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod headed by Councilor Alvin Coquia will resume its public hearing on the ongoing construction of elevated drainage system of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) along Arellano Street and A.B. Fernandez Avenue East on Tuesday (August 15). Coquia, a member…
AFTER SEVERE FLOODING IN CITY MAYOR Belen Fernandez is set to ask the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s seven majority councilors again to pass the long overdue 2023 annual budget of the city. “It’s about time that they (seven majority councilors) approve the annual budget. Wala nang rason para muling i-delay ito. Nakita nila…
SEVENTEEN year-old Angela Eliron, a student at the Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS) captured a silver medal in Taekwondo Kyorugi Light Middleweight secondary category in the Palarong Pambansa held in Marikina City from July 30 to August 5, 2023. She earned the silver when she squared-off in the finals with a top…
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