CITY Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia denied that he and the six other members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod intentionally planned on not showing up at their scheduled meeting last June 23, 2 p.m. with Mayor Belen Fernandez at city hall. In his privilege speech on June 26, Erfe-Mejia…
FUND-RAISING FOR TERMINALLY ILL PERSONNEL, DAY CARE THE ‘Cong. Sandro Marcos Cup Pangasinan’, a two-day shootfest held in Lingayen by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office at the PPPO shooting range in Lingayen town on June 24 and 25 raised funds for the care of terminally ill personnel and the construction…
Pangasinan PPO holds another shootfest for personnel care
MAYOR Belen Fernandez is on a learning trip to Thailand on the invitation of the Kasersart University in Bangkok, the largest agricultural science higher learning institution in that country. Along with City Legal Officer Aurora Valle and her chief of staff Luz de Guzman, Mayor Fernandez will study product branding,…
MBTF on a week-long learning visit in Thailand
THE worsening daily traffic situation along AB Fernandez East Avenue in Dagupan City is taking its toll on patience and frustrations of commuters and motorists because of the gridlock caused by the ongoing construction of the city’s drainage canal system along the city’s Traffic Post number one, commonly known as…
No ready solution to traffic woes around ‘junction’
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan) BSKE: 386 classrooms as polling centers in Dagupan THE Dagupan City Elections Office completed its inspection of 90 percent of the 386 school rooms in Dagupan set to be used as polling centers in the coming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in October….
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THE PUNCH, NEWS LEADER IN PANGASINAN SINCE 1956 — Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez presents the city government’s award to Sunday Punch during the awarding ceremony of the city’s 75th founding anniversary. Around her are Associate Editor Eva Visperas, Chief Photographer Willie Lomibao, Entréacte columnist Rex Catubig and chief Correspondent Ahikam Pasion (Punchphoto)
THE PUNCH, NEWS LEADER IN PANGASINAN SINCE 1956
IN a news conference last Thursday (June 22) afternoon, Mayor Belen Fernandez belied Erfe-Mejia’s statement that she and members of the minority did not meet at anytime in the past. She said that as far as she can recall, she met members of the majority five times in the past…
MBTF: His claim that we never met isn’t true
2nd ROUND FOR 2023 BUDGET “IF you are serious in resubmitting the 2023 annual budget, we are also serious in requesting for pertinent documents to support the annual budget.” This was the response of Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, chair of the committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations of the Sangguniang Panlungsod…
Erfe-Mejia wants more docs to support resubmitted budget
ANTICIPATING IMPACT OF 7.6 TREMOR ALARMED by the movement of the Manila Trench, a potentially dangerous earthquake fault west of Luzon on June 15 that triggered 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Calatagan, Batangas but only felt at Intensity 2 in Dagupan City, Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered the City Disaster Risk Reduction…
MBTF orders tsunami drills in coastline barangays

THE SP MAJORITY, A NO SHOW AGAIN – It was past 4 p.m. Friday, June 23 and the 7 councilors (Red Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez, Celia Lim, Irene Lim-Acosta, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez) who requested for the meeting with Mayor Belen Fernandez, kept the latter waiting for 2 hours at…