PREMATURE harvesting of milkfish by fish farmers in Bolinao and Anda, who feared the effect of neap tide called “gataw” led to the drastic drop in the price of their product from P20 to 30 per kilogram last June 5. A report stated that traders and buyers trooped to Western…
BINMALEY’S POLITICAL HOTSPOT TOWN residents of Binmaley started to feel political tension heating up when Vice Mayor Simplicio Rosario challenged Mayor Pedro Merrera III to a public debate to discuss pressing issues facing the residents, this after calling out the mayor alleged failure of the administration to manage the disposal…
GARBAGE DUMPING AT BRGY PANTAL – Unless and until the barangay officials of Pantal act to stop the daily dumping of wastes by commercial establishments and irresponsible homeowners for collection, the dumped uncollected garbage by the roadside of the De Venecia Highway will become a daily eyesore in the city to the embarrassment…
THE legal of the Department of the Interior and Local Government is being sought by the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod on three issues that continue to be a source of conflict. SP will ask 1) Whether or not a member of the body, who is on leave and overseas, can participate…
DAGUPAN CITY was recently adjudged 604th among the 1,000 best cities in the world and 30th among the 55 Southeast Asian cities after Mayor Belen Fernandez did the livestream interview from London by representatives of the United Kingdom-based Oxford think tank group for the Oxford Economies’ Global Cities Index. Fernandez was interviewed over a…
IN reaction to the approval of the divorce bill (H.B. 9349) at the House of Representatives, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas stressed that Catholic Church “cannot support a bill that makes legal what to us is a transgression of Christ’s sovereign will.” In a pastoral exhortation on the divorce bill issued…
THE Department of Health-Center for Health Development in Region 1 said there is yet no cause for alarm over the new COVID-19 variant ‘Flirt’ that was detected in other countries since this strain of the disease has not yet reached the region nor any part in the country. This was…
DAGUPAN’S WHITE ELEPHANT — Dagupeños are beginning to believe that the unfinished “new” city hall will remain an eyesore for a long time since work on the building has been suspended by the contractor R.A. Matias Construction, appointed by the previous Lim administration, and was reportedly paid P42-M. The current Fernandez administration said it…
DAGUPAN City has been identified as one of nine cities in the Philippines included among the largest urban economies in the world. Oxford Economics, a UK-based think tank, recently unveiled its 2024 Global Cities Index, shedding light on urban environments worldwide. While global giants like New York, London, San Jose,…
A SUCCESSFUL buy-bust operation in Alaminos City resulted in the confiscation of 70 grams of shabu worth P476,000 and the arrest of four s high-value targets operation at around 10:45 p.m. on May 23 in Barangay Pogo, Alaminos City. In a joint operation of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Pangasinan and local…
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