DAGUPAN CITY’S partnership with Holcim Philippines is set to start next week with the initial delivery of a truckload of compacted plastic wastes to the Holcim cement plant in Bulacan. This was announced by Mayor Belen Fernandez who said the initial volume will be sourced from one room at the…
THE PUNCH’s issue last week reported that 34 hectares of farmlands in Tayug town were hit hard by the El Niño phenomenon. But the damage had spread – the dry spell already hit farmlands covering 173 hectares. Reports from the Department of Agriculture Region I (DA-I) show that their latest…
MORE than 100 hectares of forest, grass, and mountain in Barangay Malico, San Nicolas town Tuesday morning, February 13 were razed all because of a lighted cigarette butt thrown by riding tourist. Shallom Balolong of the San Nicolas Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said they received report of…
UNITY FOR UNSUSTAINABLE GOALS – The Dagupan City government leads government officials, business sector, students and faculty of city schools, colleges and universities in the unity walk along the De Venecia Highway to promote greater awareness about the need to help achieve UN’s goals. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
VM KUA REFUSED TO ACT ON MOTION PER DILG RULE THE seven opposition councilors who comprise the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod again walked out of the February 6 regular session after Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod presiding officer Bryan Kua refused to rule on the privilege motion of…
2024 DAGUPAN CHILDREN’S SUMMIT THE 2024 Children’s Summit in Dagupan City held last week at CSI Stadia engaged students, parents and teachers on the importance of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in their development which the city of Dagupan is committed to pursue until 2030. Attended by…
2024 GOOD FINANCIAL HOUSEKEEPING ALL local government units in Pangasinan, except one, were acknowledged by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as recipients of the 2023 Good Financial Housekeeping (GFH). In an announcement last week, DILG said the provincial government of Pangasinan and its four cities—Dagupan, San…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed the “Comprehensive Smoke-Free Ordinance of the Province of Pangasinan” regulating the use, sale, distribution, and advertisement of cigarettes and other tobacco products, electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems and other novel tobacco products in certain places and imposing penalties for violations thereof to instill health consciousness and for other…
BEWARE OF CUTE-LOOKING PUPS SEVEN residents of Barangay Navaluan in Mangaldan town were bitten by a puppy that turned out to be rabies-positive. The puppy died after biting the victims. The Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory confirmed the specimen’s infection. Consequently, the town’s Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) immediately launched a…
SEARCH FOR EXCELLENCE IN PADUNUNGAN 2024 — Junior High and Senior High students of schools in Pangasinan await results of winners in the competitions held during the UP Subol Society’s Padunungan 2024 held last January 26 at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. Among the early winners were Urdaneta City National High School in group…
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