BARANGAYS TOLD TO PREPARE LISTS THE Fernandez administration in Dagupan City appears determined to clear the city’s rivers of illegal fish pens many of which are oversized and constructed along navigational lanes. This became evident after Mayor Belen Fernandez had a consultation meeting with seven barangay chairmen under whose jurisdictions…
FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY – A hand-painted portrait of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is rushed to Binmaley town to be displayed at the town hall. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
LEAGUE OF CITIES OF PH DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez is the new Region 1 chairman of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP). She was elected on July 21 during the 69th General Assembly and Election of Officers at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria in Quezon City. Interior…
DENGUE-WATCH SO far, dengue cases in Pangasinan are 72 % lower compared to last year’s. This was bared by Provincial Health Office’s (PHO) data culled from Pangasinan Sentinel Hospitals-government hospitals, private hospitals and the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City. From January to July 18 this year, there were…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan, on motion of Vice Governor and presiding officer Mark Lambino, recalled a resolution passed in 2016 during the 9th Sanggunian declaring Pangasinan State University president Dexter Buted as persona non grata in Pangasinan. The resolution introduced by Lambino was approved over two abstentions by Board Members Haidee…
VIOLATIVE OF R.A.7160 THE new seven-man majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod forged a new set of Rules and Procedures (IRP) that completely isolates the members of the minority – without committee chairmanships and without voting powers in committees. The unexpected development is feared to lead to an impasse in the…
ONCE A BRIGHTLY COLORED BRIDGE – The once colorful Pantal Bridge on De Venecia Highway already viewed as a landmark in Dagupan City at night is already a dark structure whose outline can only be seen by oncoming headlights of vehicles. It has since been abandoned by the past city administration and city residents…
FROM P90K TO P30K ALLOCATION THE new majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan is railing against the directive of Mayor Belen Fernandez that each city councilor will be entitled to only three job order (JO) or emergency employees until the end of their term. Their protest manifested in a…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged all local governments in Pangasinan to prepare and provide assistance to all schools, public and private, in their respective jurisdictions when face to face classes open on August 22 leading to its full implementation on November 2, 2022. The resolution, authored by Sixth District Board Member…
NO TRANSPARENCY IN PROJECTS URBIZTONDO mayor Modesto Operania bewailed the lack of transparency in the implementation of projects in the town by former mayor Martin Raul Sison II resulting in doubts about their legitimacy and propriety. Operania, in an interview, cited the town’s People’s Park which did not inform the…
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