“LET us end our 2023 feeling grateful and thankful,” Governor Ramon Guico III told provincial department heads and employees last December 18 when he led the last flag-raising ceremony for the year at the Capitol grounds. In his message, he expressed his gratitude to all department heads and the thousands…
BLESSING SAME-SEX COUPLES LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the Fiducia Supplicans approved by Pope Francis on Dec. 18 is clearly an indication that the Catholic Church is open to “blessing couples in irregular situations and same sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial…
IN compliance with the directive of Mayor Belen Fernandez, Arellano Street was temporarily reopened by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for two-way traffic since 6:00 a.m. on December 15 and will remain as such until January 6 next year. This was a day ahead of the December 16 temporarily…
KAP MORILLO SLAY INTERIOR Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. pledged P500,000 as reward money to any person who can provide valuable information that could lead to the identification and arrest of the perpetrators, including the mastermind, in the ambush-slaying of Poblacion Barangay Chairperson Melinda “Tonet” Morillo of Mangaldan on…
THE Privately-Hosted Evacuation Center (PHEC), one of the best practices of the Dagupan City government in recent years, has been benchmarked by other cities in the Philippines. Speaking to newsmen last week, Mayor Belen Fernandez revealed the PHEC was adopted as model by members of the League of Cities of…
VICE GOV. Mark Ronald Lambino described the year 2023 as a “jam-packed period” filled with extensive work, actions, results, and outputs for Pangasinan. Lambino, the presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), gave this assessment after the provincial board’s final in-person session for the current year on December 11. He…
‘IWAS PUTOK’ PLEASE! – Personnel of the Department of Health led by Regional Director Paula Paz Sydiongco is joined by Mayor Belen Fernandez during the launching of the regionwide campaign of Oplan ‘Iwas Paputok’. (Punchphto by Butch Uka)
OPLAN ‘Iwas Paputok’ was launched in Dagupan City jointly by regional offices of the Department of Health, the Dagupan City government, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fire Protection and other government agencies. DOH Regional Director Paula Paz Sydiongco and Mayor Belen Fernandez led…
NOVEL COLORFUL CHRISTMAS LIGHTS BY THE BRIDGE — Mayor Belen Fernandez and Councilor Michael Fernandez are delighted to see the residents’ reactions to the lighted Quintos Bridge for the holiday season, an attraction that draws thousands of visitors to Dagupan City, while Vice Mayor Bryan Kua and Councilor Lino Fernandez…
THE last stumbling block raised by the majority bloc over the use of the P1.3 billion annual budget of Dagupan for 2023 was finally cleared after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) declared the Appropriations Ordinance (AO) No. 2274-202 as “operative in its entirety effective” upon approval. Declared operative in its…
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