DAGUPAN Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia was separately indicted by the Acting City Prosecutor for Dagupan City on the complaint filed by his fellow councilors for “Prohibition, Interruption and Dissolution of peaceful meeting defined and penalized under Article 131 of the Revised Penal Code”. This was contained in a resolution signed on…
COMBINED police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives seized 130 grams of suspected shabu and arrested a suspect in a drug sting on March 13 in Barangay Poblacion, Malasiqui town. By virtue of a search warrant, lawmen nabbed Keneth John Zacarias, 33, a resident of the barangay. The confiscated suspected…
HELLO CSWD! WHERE ARE YOU?– Three homeless families have camped out under the Pantal-Lucao Bridge De Venecia Diversion Road (AB Fernandez Ave. West) Dagupan City for the past 2 months and their presence there seems to be invisible to the City Social Welfare Department. If the families are not relocated, soon the…
THE five-minority in the Dagupan Sanggunian went on record last week seeking to invalidate the new amendments introduced by the opposition in the Internal Rules of Procedures or House Rules of the Sangguniang Panlungsod constantly being cited by the latter to justify regularity of its actions and recommendations. But simply…
VICE Governor Mark Lambino expressed confidence that Pangasinan will be able to overcome the impact of El Niño phenomenon but equally expressed concern over its effects, particularly on farmers whose livelihood depends on farming. In an interview with the local media on March 4, Lambino said based on their assessment,…
NO worries. Pangasinan has enough rice buffer stocks despite the El Niño phenomenon. Frederick Dulay, assistant branch manager of the National Food Authority-Pangasinan, said their palay stocks as of March 7 totaled 17,000 bags, and when converted to rice, it is around 11,000 bags. The shelf life of their stocks…
SCAMMING GULLIBLE OFFICIALS – Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos fields questions from reporters as he leaves the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Lingayen after attending the trial of an impostor who called local officials soliciting funds while pretending to be him. “Ako ay dumalo dahil napakaimportante nito bilang testigo para patunayan na ginamit…
DEPARTMENT of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos arrived in Lingayen town on Friday, February 23, to attend a court hearing against an arrested impostor who used his name to scam people. Abalos attended the hearing to prove that his identify was used and falsified. “Wala akong…
POST MBTF’S DEFENSE THE Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations of the Sangguniang Panlungsod is set to wind up its committee hearings on the 2024 annul budget of Dagupan on March 5 after the Local Finance Committee of the city and the officer-in-charge of the Persons with Disability Affairs Office…
MULTI-awarded poet Santiago ‘Sonny’ Villafania, 53, died 1 a.m. on Monday, February 26, 2024. Villafania’s daughter, Wenna Louise, confirmed his death in her post on his Facebook account: “Dear friends and family, it’s in heavy heart that we write this post. My father, Santiago B. Villafania passed away at 1am…
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