DEFINITELY LOVE PHILIPPINES — A caretaker of the koi and bonsai garden trims the leaves of the plants to maintain its shape grown at the miniature replica of the famous Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) is located in front of the City Tourism Office in Barangay Lucap in Alaminos City. (Punchphoto by Willie…
“CHALLENGE ACCEPTED” THE word war that broke out between the city hall and the sanggunian in Dagupan City in 2022 on the 2023 annual budget continues, and there appears no end to it in months ahead, not with new threats and demands flying around to see who blinks first again….
FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE VICE Gov. Mark Lambino gave the Guico administration’s first year in office a high rating for the major strides it made making Pangasinan a premier province. He told local newsmen “there were“ lots of planning, organization and reorganization, a lot of changes not just in the…
“UNMODIFIED OPINION” FOR the first time in Bayambang’s governance history, the local government was given an “unmodified opinion” rating by the Commission on Audit (COA) in its Annual Audit Report. In Mayor Niña Jose-Quiambao’s State of the Municipality Address last week she said “unmodified opinion” is the highest rating that…
ELEVATING THE ROAD BY 1.5 METERS – Traffic around the city is expected to worsen once the planned 1.5 m high drainage system along Arellano St. in Dagupan City is completed, and elevation of the road by 1.5m starts. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE threat of tsunami occurring in Dagupan City is real on account of recent recorded movements of the Manila Trench. This was disclosed Wednesday by Mayor Belen Fernandez who said representatives of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recently came to Dagupan twice to coordinate with city officials…
POSTS on social media expressing surprise went viral after hail rained on many towns like Bayambang, Basista, and some in eastern Pangasinan during a thunderstorm. PAGASA assured residents that seeing hail is normal during thunderstorms. Gener Quitlong, weather specialist of the PAGASA Agno River Basin Flood Forecasting and Warning Center…
LINGAYEN HOSPITAL’S OVER-CAPACITY DILEMMA MORE patients can be served at the Lingayen District Hospital (LDH) after the provincial board in a resolution on Monday, July 3 to the Department of Health (DOH) endorsed its application for an upgraded capacity license. The resolution cited the improvements and rehabilitation work done in…
THE recent brouhaha over the missteps in launching the “Love the Philippines” theme and slogan as the country’s tourism campaign may have dismayed local governments particularly by those that believe that only a catchy slogan national campaign will lure foreign tourists to our land. It is particularly that view that…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. AT the rate the both camps of Mayor Belen Fernandez, on one hand, and the Sanggunian’s 7 epaLiFe majority members (Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez, Celia Lim, Irene Lim-Acosta, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez,) on the other hand, are threatening, badgering and bullying…
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