DECEMBER 31, 2022 DEADLINE AS expected, Dagupan’s Sangguniang Panlungsod failed to meet the deadline for the passage of the city’s 2023 annual budget because the majority members never scheduled public hearings on the proposed 2023 budget submitted by the Fernandez administration last September 14, 2022. The majority members of the…
THROWBACK RIDE FOR SELFIES – Dagupan residents and their guests take to joyrides on board Dagupan’s white colored karitelas that pass through the Quintos Christmas bridge nightly. For many decades, these and calesas ruled the streets as main means of transport around the city. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
Fake money circulating in Bani reported IN a bid to thwart circulation of fake money bills in the town, a fake money detector scanner was installed at the wet section of the town’s market after the Bani local government received that some local vendors were paid with fraudulent bills by…
WHILE many most already finished their shopping spree, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) again warned the public to be mindful of the money they receive in transactions since some of these could be fake. Dante Cambri, senior research specialist of the BSP-North Luzon Regional Office, said fake peso bills…
FOR THE ADVENTUROUS REVELER – A vendor at the designated fireworks zone in Dagupan City is ready to serve any preferred firework, local or imported, to the New Year afficionados who can’t think of celebrating it other than lighting up thousands worth of fireworks, sparklers, etc. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THEFT or inside job? This, after a Chinese engineer working with a sub-contractor at the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Labrador, reported he lost more than P1 million to thieves who broke into his room at the house that he and his two companions are renting. But after…
TWO former members of the “Militia ng Bayan” of the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) in Umingan town surrendered to police and military on December 26. The surrenderers were identified as Diosdado Parinas, alias “Ka “Joel”, 47, and Alfredo Valdez, alias “Cardo”, 71, both of Barangay Maseil-Seil, Umingan. They surrendered in…
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2022 THE Department of the Interior and Local Government reminded the Dagupan City government to pass the Appropriations Ordinance of Dagupan City for Fiscal Year 2023, which to date has not been scheduled for a regular session’s agenda although already submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod more than…
FOR BLOCKING URGENT MEASURES A DILG legal opinion in 2019 states that if the Sanggunian committed inaction that is intentional and without valid and justifiable grounds on matters certified as urgent by the Local Chief Executive (LCE), thereby showing no consideration on the priorities of the administration, “the members, thereof, are considered to…
‘Belen’ created (by the Department of Education) on display at the Paseo De Belen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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