TF BANTAY ILOG REPORT ON 1,206 ILLEGAL PENS IN her “Kapehan, Talakayan at Balitaan” program last Wednesday, Nov. 23, Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez reported that while only 15 of the 1,206 illegal fish pens in Dagupan City have so far been demolished by the Task Force Bantay Ilog, eight…
PAST DAR’S DEADLINE THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) finally passed the resolution requested by the executive department authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to apply for retention and select the five- hectare retention area of the 29-hectare land bought by the Dagupan City government in March 2002 in Barangay Awai in San Jacinto…
ANOTHER SHOWDOWN AT DAGUPAN SP ANOTHER showdown between the majority and minority members in the Sangguniang Panlungsod when majority passed resolution urging Mayor Belen Fernandez to use the P55 million remaining balance of the 2022 budget to fund the scholarship of all scholars approved by the previous administration. The resolution…
PASEO DE BELEN, BATTLE OF BANDS BACK MAYOR Belen Fernandez named Councilor Michael Fernandez as chair of Dagupan City Fiesta 2022 and the “Pasco de Dagupan”, which actually already started with the ceremonial lighting of Christmas decors at the Quintos Bridge, lighting of the Giant Christmas Tree in front of the…
THE Department of Health (DOH) reported that there is no cholera outbreak in Region I. This was confirmed by DOH officer-in-charge Dr. Maria Rosario Vergeire, and Dr. Paula Paz Sydiongco, chief of the DOH-Center for Health Development in Region I at a press conference. This is after several cases of…
DAGUPAN’S CHRISTMAS TREE — Dgupeños and their friends and visitors have found a new colorful Christmassy background for their selfies and groufies at the tall and lighted Christmas tree in front of City plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
GOOD news for families of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs)! The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)–Dagupan will restore normal visitation activities soon. J/Superintendent Roque Sison, BJMP Dagupan jail warden, said it is time to consider restoring the normal visitation conditions since the Covid situation is already beginning to…
THE Philippine National Statistics Authority (PNSA) clarified that the National Identification card it issues is not, and cannot be used as proof of one’s Filipino citizenship, but only as proof of one’s identity. Emily Pagador, Assistant National Statistician of the PhilSys Registry Office-Use Case Development and Management Service (PRO-UCDMS) explained…
PANGASINAN WITH HIGHEST NUMBER AFTER the series of typhoons and flooding that hit towns and cities in the region, health experts have warned Pangasinenses on the rise of leptospirosis infection on seeing a 150 percent increase in leptospirosis cases over last years in Region 1. The Department of Health–Center for…
THE Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced that 33 college students out of the 178 examinees that took the qualifying exam on August 27 in Pangasinan, qualified for the Junior Level Science Scholarship (JLSS) program of DOST’s Science Education Institute (SEI). Bernalyn Martinez, project assistant II of DOST-Pangasinan, said…
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