FAKE NEWS SPREAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA “WE are not disqualified.” Sual Mayor Liseldo “Dong” Calugay, who is running for reelection in May, stressed this in a Facebook video posted on April 24 as news spread about a disqualification case filed against him and his team at the Commission on…
2025 DAGUPAN BUDGET IS VALID THE Court of Appeals (CA) denied the petition for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against Dagupan’s P1.6-billion budget for 2025 filed by the city’s seven opposition councilors. The Special Civil Action for Certiorari and Prohibition with Urgent Prayer for TRO, Writ of Preliminary Injunction and/or…
Standing in front of Vice Governor Mark Lambino, Gov. Guico cites the various “firsts.” (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) AIMS FOR 20 HOSPITALS IF REELECTED GOVERNOR Ramon Guico III highlighted his administration’s accomplishments, particularly the “historic firsts” of his first tenure, during his third State of the Province Address (SOPA) on…
TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT THE slogan of the opposition party in Dagupan City which says, “Kung walang sagabal, may magnanakaw”, drew a sharp retort from former Councilor Luis Samson Jr., saying it is they who have records of illegal transactions and questionable use of public funds. Samson, a veteran politician…
URDANETA, DAGUPAN, BINMALEY, SUAL EVEN before the campaign period for local candidates started on March 28, all eyes were already on Urdaneta City, Binmaley, Sual and Dagupan City in that order as the intense political rivalries among their candidates could lead to unsteady peace in these areas. All four places…
MOTHER-CHILD HOSPITAL PROJECT WITHDRAWN CONSTRUCTION of the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) project in Dagupan City has been scrapped before the P150 million allotted to it could be downloaded by the Department of Health to the Dagupan City government Mayor Belen Fernandez, in her State of the City Address (SOCA)…
WORK-FROM-HOME OPERATIONS TENSION was high at the Urdaneta City Hall early Friday morning, March 14, when a team from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) led by Regional Director Jonathan Paul Lausen Jr., accompanied by uniformed police officers, arrived to enforce the Office of the President’s suspension…
DESPITE COMELEC LETTER AFFIRMING SUSPENSION NOTWITHSTANDING a letter from the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) stating that the serving of their suspension order on January 7 was valid, Urdaneta City Mayor Julio Parayno III and his cousin Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno continue to hold their respective offices and discharging duties without…
OBSTRUCTIONISM IS BACK AS the dumpsite in Bonuan is near closure by Mayor Belen Fernandez, another suspicious fire broke out in the area at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday sending columns of black smoke up in the sky seen in most parts of the city. Fire Chief Inspector Michael Escano,…
TURMOIL CONTINUES IN URDANETA CITY THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC), in a letter dated February 11, 2025, said the 12-month suspension order against Urdaneta City Mayor Julio F. Parayno III and Vice Mayor Jimmy D. Parayno is considered to have been served before the election period that started on January…
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