SECOND ROUND BATTLE MAYOR Belen Fernandez convened the Local Development Council (LDC) to a meeting last Wednesday, June 21, and passed two resolutions approving the resubmission of the 2023 Annual Budget of P1.3 billion and the submission of the P148.9 million Supplemental Annual Investment Plan No. 1 to the Sangguniang…
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…
MEMBERS of the seven-man majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod were a no-show in their scheduled 2:00 p.m. on Friday (June 23) meeting at City Hall with Mayor Belen Fernandez. Fernandez and other city officials (Vice Mayor Bryan Kua and the SP minority members composed of Councilors Michael Fernandez, Jeslito…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan will hold a Question Hour on Monday, June 26, with Commission on Higher Education (CHED) officials, college/university executives and various stakeholders as resource persons to discuss the present state of the college education assistance programs in Pangasinan. Fourth District Board Member Jerry Agerico Rosario, author of the…
MONTHS before the much-awaited Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), the Commission on Elections (Comelec)–Dagupan City has begun inspecting public schools that will be used as polling precincts for the elections in October. Atty. Michael Franks Sarmiento, Dagupan City election officer, said early inspection of prospective polling precincts will enable…
THE satellite field office of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Regional Welfare Office 1 (OWWA-RWO 1) in Alaminos City will be transferred to the Capitol Complex. The arrangement was authorized by Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s resolution authored by BM Marinor de Guzman, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will be signed by Gov….
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan) POSO intensifies anti-BOSO act enforcement THE Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) of Dagupan City has intensified enforcement of the Anti-BOSO Act in motorized tricycles in order to protect women passengers. According to Dagupan POSO, the anti-BOSO act ensures that all public utility…
BLESSED are the peacemakers because they get hurt. This was the case of Bautista town Mayor Joseph Espino who attempted to break up a rumble between two warring groups. Investigation showed the town was holding its SK Night in the municipal gymnasium as part of its town fiesta, when 20-year-old…
FUTURE JOURNALISTS – Some 2,000 campus writers and media production staff from 14 Division Schools in Region 1 take their oaths during the opening program of the 2023 Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) competition from the 14 schools division offices in Ilocos Region that started on June 15 at the Don…
FUTURE LEADERS TRAINING YOUNG city officials under the Manlingkor Ya Kalengwaran (MYK) program took over the reins of the city government last June 13 following their oathtaking officiated by Mayor Belen Fernandez at the E-Library in Bonifacio Street. In the MYK program, Fernandez yielded her post for one week to Young…
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