DAGUPAN City received four major awards during the 2024 Regional Peace and Order Council and Anti-Drug Abuse Council Performance Awarding Ceremony held on November 18 at the La Union Convention Center in San Fernando City. The recognition program, based on set performance audits, gives honor to local governments for initiatives…
EDADES-BERNAL MUSEUM — Rep. Christopher “Toff” De Venecia leads the ceremonial blessing & groundbreaking ceremony of the Edades & Bernal Cultural Center & Museum at the Judge Jose de Venecia Sr. Highway, Brgy. Pantal, Dagupan City. He is joined by Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez, Vice Mayor Bryan Kua, Councilors Michael Fernandez, Lino Fernandez, Dennis Canto, Zheanne Dantis,…
EMERGENCY teams across Pangasinan continued to remain on alert over the weekend and in the coming days as tropical storm Pepito (international name: Man-yi) was expected to pummel through most of Luzon and parts of the Visayas starting November 16, Saturday. Weather bureau PAGASA Forecaster Rhea Torres, in an update…
THE NEW MAJORITY VS. NEW MINORITY ALL measures passed by the Dagupan Sanggunian Panlungsod since the 60-day preventive suspension of three opposition councilors are considered legal, valid, and binding, based on a legal opinion of the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) regional office, dated November 12, 2024 and…
DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez led local and national officials in laying a wreath at the foot of the monument of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez, author of Republic Act 170 that created the city of Dagupan on June 20, 1947, in commemoration of his 128th birth anniversary. In her speech…
GALVAN-ZAMORA STREETS CLOSED UNTIL FEB. 22 GALVAN and Zamora Streets in Dagupan will be closed to vehicular traffic for three months to give way to the Christmas Baratillo and food strip, respectively, from November 22 until February 22 next year in line with the City Fiesta celebration. The closure is…
DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING —The Philippine flag is lowered to half-mast shortly after the flag-raising ceremony in front of the provincial capitol building in Lingayen last Monday, November 4, in compliance with Proclamation Number 728 declaring November 4,2024 as a day of national mourning for the victims of severe tropical storm Kristine. (Punchphoto…
DAGUPAN ON FULL ALERT PANGASINAN was still under storm signal #1 as of Friday morning even as Typhoon Marce weakened, but the latest natural hazard to hit the country did not bring heavy rain and gusty winds to the province. Commercial hub Dagupan City, which is still under a state…
SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET, 8 RESOLUTIONS PASSED THE new majority in the Dagupan City Sangguniang Panlungsod immediately got down to business and passed in less than six hours the long-delayed Supplemental Budget No. 2 of 2023 amounting to P557 million, and eight vital resolutions concerning different programs and projects. Councilor and new Majority…
WITH 3 COUNCILORS SUSPENDED “IT was what I earlier considered as another Divine Providence or an act of God favoring us.” This was the terse reaction of Mayor Belen Fernandez to the preventive suspension of the three councilors of the majority bloc for 60 days by the Office of the…
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