THE proposal to schedule the hearing and discussions on the Proposed Ordinance No. 818 seeking to enact the proposed Annual Budget of Dagupan for Fiscal Year 2023 in plenary was rejected by the majority members of the Dagupan sanggunian during its regular session last January 17. By a vote of…
FOR decades, the country has been witnessing celebrations touting the Chinese culture about wealth and prosperity. In fact, perhaps most are totally unaware that the Pinoy tradition of lighting fireworks and having round fruits and objects in homes to celebrate each New Year are adoptions of traditions to celebrate the…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE epaLiFes, the 7-majority in the Dagupan sanggunian, are already frantically grasping at straws on how to evade responsibility over their plot to reject the proposed 2023 annual budget of Dagupan City and compel the reenactment of the 2022 budget in the next 12 months….
CITY LEGAL OFFICE ORDERED MAYOR Belen Fernandez has given the go-signal to City Legal Officer Aurora Valle to file charges against former city officials involved in the scholarship program of the past administration in her first meeting for the new year with the Local Development Council (LDC) on January 16,…
COLORS FOR LUNAR YEAR – Four performers wearing colorful head icons symbolizing spring season for good harvest, for summer and excitement, for autumn, winter and sole empire, march ahead of the Lunar Year ahead of the Dancing Dragon. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
A TESDA training assessor of Pangasinan was murdered by a still unidentified suspect inside her house in Brgy. Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City on January 11. The victim, identified as Lizandra Mamaril, 57 years old, was alone in her house when her husband Eusebio Mamaril, 60, found her naked, her face covered by a pillow and her head…
A REFORMATION facility for drug offenders called ‘Balay Silangan’ will soon rise in Dagupan following an inspection conducted by Mayor Belen Fernandez last January 12, 2023 located on A.B. Fernandez West, Poblacion Oeste. The Balay Silangan is seen as an alternative approach to address illegal drug use and help drug…
TWO former members of the “militia ng bayan” of the Sigmaru Unit Command of the Kilusang Larangang Gerilya Caraballo of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to police and military authorities on January 14. The surrenderers, a couple, were identified as Tomas Cabonitalla, alias “Ka Tomas”, 59; and Felicidad Cabonitalla,…
A VISITING woman from Pampanga lost the sacks of onions and 5 bags of eggplants she bought at the Urdaneta City Agri-Trading Post that she was about to transport, to an unidentified tricycle driver. A closed circuit television camera recorded the theft past 2:10 pm on Lachica St., beside the People’s Park and…
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