A CASE FOR OMBUDSMAN, NOT CAPITOL THE new order of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) suspending Urdaneta Mayor Julio Parayno III for another one year — which supposedly took effect on October 14, before his 90-day preventive suspension was to expire — was considered null and void based on the October…

A day after Typhoon Kristine swept through Dagupan City on October 24, Mayor Belen Fernandez said she may call for a special session to ask the Sangguniang Panlungsod to pass a resolution placing the city under a state of calamity in view of the damage and impact on residents. As…

P1.5 BILLION MORE THAN THIS YEAR THE provincial administration has proposed a P7.1-billion for 2025, higher by P1.5 billion than this year’s P5.6-billion allocation. Vice Governor Mark Lambino told local newsmen the hike could be attributed to the increase in the province’s share in the national tax allocation (NTA) by…

WEAPONS, ALCOHOL TO BE CONFISCATED THE police reminded the public of items that will not be allowed inside both public and private cemeteries as crowds flock during the coming Undas weekend, with checkpoints to be set up at entrances. The list of prohibited items includes alcoholic drinks, illegal drugs, large…

A visibly elated Urdaneta City Mayor Julio “Rammy” Parayno III has returned to office effective October 17 after Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Crisma Vismanos Nabua of Branch 78 issued an order declaring his suspension for 90 days by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan as without legal and factual basis. A poetic…

FORMER Governor Amado Espino III said the removal of the Pangasinan Veterans Memorial Park from its present site behind the provincial capitol in Lingayen disrespects the veterans who fought for the country during World War II and also to the province’s history of bravery and patriotism. The park’s location is…

CONSTRUCTION of the Maternal and Children’s Hospital (MCH) in Dagupan City is now closer to reality after the Sangguniang Panlungsod, in a special session on October 11, passed a P5-million supplemental budget and its corresponding Supplemental Annual Investment Program (SAIP) to fund the demolition of existing buildings on city-owned properties where…

LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas issued a warning about a scam that had been using his name to solicit donations for his charitable causes. In a post on his official Facebook page “Father Soc” on October 16, the archbishop said the scammer was and is most likely still using a Smart…