PEACE BE WITH YOU — A mass presided by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas with Bishop Napoleon B. Sipalay, Jr. Bishop of Alaminos Diocese and priests from Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, Dioceses of Urdaneta and Alaminos as concelebrants for the Marian Prayer Voyage for peace in the West Philippines Sea and for safety of fishermen of Infanta…
DAGUPAN City is trailing eight other cities in Region 1 in t performance in 2023, no thanks to the seven obstructionist councilors in the Sangguniang Panlungsod who blocked if not delayed passage of the 2023-2024 annual budgets and supplementary budgets. This was the terse explanation of Mayor Fernandez in an…
THE Marcos administration distributed 3,161 agrarian debt condonation certificates to farmer-beneficiaries in Pangasinan and were received personally from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on July 19 at the Narciso Ramos Sports gymnasium and Civic Center in Lingayen. The total farmer beneficiaries in Region 1 were 3,558: 3,161 in Pangasinan, 246 in…
A student of Baybay Elementary School in Binmaley town was recently adjudged ‘Outstanding Campus Journalist of the Philippines-Elementary Level in the recently concluded National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) 2024 held on July 8-12 in Carcar City, Cebu. Baybay student Jose III Reloza said he felt overwhelmed as he didn’t expect…
THE Dagupan City government received the coveted DENR’s Gawad Kalikhasan Award for ‘Best Environmental Partner’ (Local Government Unit Category) of the agency at the culmination of the 2024 Philippine Environmental Month on July 15 in Bauang, La Union. Mayor Belen Fernandez, accompanied by Atty. Gil Aromin, consultant on environmental programs…
IMPACT OF LOWER RICE IMPORT TARIFF — Farmers in Aguilar begin planting unaware of the negative effect of the Marcos administration’s decision to lower the tariff on imported rice ostensibly to effect a lower price of rice in public markets. Economists say the expected deluge of imported rice will lower the value…
FOURTH District Board Member Jerry Agerico Rosario said the recent rise of rabies cases in Pangasinan is alarming, prompting him to initiate the conduct of a Question Hour in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on the status of rabies incidences in the province in aid of legislation to introduce remedial measures. He…
THE Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan will bring its rosary campaign for the protection of the Philippines from communist China to Infanta town where it will hold a fluvial rosary procession for peace with fishermen in the West Philippine Sea in the early morning of July 16 this year. This was contained in…
MAYIOR Belen Fernandez vetoed the ordinance authored by the seven majority councilors seeking to increase the allowance of teaching and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Dagupan from P500 monthly to P5,000 quarterly, citing among others that the opposition virtually arrogated upon itself the power to allocate…
BOLINAO in Pangasinan rivaled San Juan in La Union as the most visited tourist destination in Region 1 in year 2023. This was bared by Department of Tourism Regional Director Jeff Ortega during the Bagong Pilipinas Kapihan hosted by the Philippine Information Agency in Region 1 last Tuesday, July 9….
© 2024 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
