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…
Housewives in the neighborhood, who found the shed skin of a suspected python, hold up their discovery. (Photograb on Facebook) RESIDENTS of Sitio Nibaliw in Barangay Bued, Calasiao town, are alarmed and fear the presence of a possibly monstrous snake in their neighborhood after they found its shed skin Wednesday…
PRACTICAL LESSON AFTER ‘FIRE OUT’ — An OJT student is taught by a fireman how to install and use a hose to put out a fire after the grass fire in Barangay Mangin in Dagupan City was declared “fire out’ . University students joined the Dagupan City Fire Station in…
THE recent bomb threats in different areas in Pangasinan have alarmed the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office. P/Capt. Renan dela Cruz said in an interview with iFM Dagupan that bomb threats from Feb. 12 to Feb. 19 were in Alaminos City, San Carlos City and in the towns of Mangaldan, Mangatarem,…
P2.018-B FOR 3 SECTORS THE majority and minority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod finally joined hands for the first time since 2022 to approve funding for the P2,018,655,400 Annual Investment Program (AIP) of Dagupan and its accompanying integral plans for Calendar Year 2024. On motion of Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, chair of…
THE Dagupan City government intensified its strict implementation of its “no segregation, no collection” policy among residents in order to meet the city’s commitment to the new partnership with Holcim Philippines Inc., manufacturer of Portland Cement, in solid waste management. Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered City Waste Management Division chief Bernard…
THE Commission on Population Development Region I (CPD-I) reported last week that Pangasinan has the most number cases of teenage pregnancy in the region. Out of four provinces in the region, Pangasinan recorded 10 cases of live births among teenage moms in 2020, 43 in 2021, and 73 cases in…
MUTE WITNESS— The image of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Manaoag looms like a big mute witness to the fire Thursday night that gutted eight stalls selling religious articles while a policeman guards the area against pilferers. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
OPPOSITION TELLS HER TO ATTEND DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez is still willing to appear before the committee on finance, budget and appropriation’s weekly hearing on February 27 to defend the annual budget of the city despite refusal of the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod to conduct daily hearings. Fernandez…
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