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…
THE Pangasinan provincial government welcomed the move of the Manila Water Philippine Ventures (MWPV) to seek the revival of discussions on the stalled P8-billion bulk water concession agreement. In a joint statement on January 26, both parties expressed willingness to explore a new partnership for water supply in the province,…
THE continued delay in the passage of the 2024 annual budget of Dagupan is opposed to the tenets and objectives of the Bagong Pilipinas program of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Speaking during the flag-raising ceremony at the Dagupan City Plaza on January 29, Mayor Fernandez said the opposition councilors must…
FOR DRUG PUSHERS, USERS FAMILIES of self-confessed drug pushers and users in Dagupan City can now look forward to the city government’s help in rehabilitating their relatives in the hope of starting a new life through Dagupan’s Balay Silangan Reformation Center. The city government’s help was formally offered by Mayor…
PADUNUNGAN 2024 — Students from secondary schools in Pangasinan join the inter-quiz show as part of the Padunugan 2024 conducted by the UP Subol Society (UPSS) last Friday at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. Other contests include essay writing, extemporaneous speaking, on the spot poster making, and Pangasinan contemporary dance. Padunungan…
SIGNATURES FROM 46 LGUS SUBMITTED THOUGH the Philippine Senate issued a manifesto slamming People’s Initiative (PI), the movement appears to be far from slowing down as groups continue to submit signature sheets to local election offices calling for the holding of PI in order to amend the Philippine Constitution. Provincial Elections…
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