DAGUPAN City Vice Mayor Bryan Kua assured the public that he will seek a court injunction on the amended Internal Rules of Procedures (IRP) of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) that significantly diminishes his office’s powers within the city council. Voting along party lines, the said amendment was passed with seven…
PANGASINAN’S provincial government and San Miguel Holdings Corporation (SMHC) have formally joined forces for the implementation of the Pangasinan Link Expressway (PLEX) project. This partnership was solidified through the signing of a Joint Venture Agreement and Tollway Concession Agreements on October 19 at the Sison Auditorium. The signing ceremony, led…
OVERWHELMING CAMPAIGN — A mother carrying her baby and a companion try to make a sense of the campaign posters for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections that practically covered an abandoned house in Poblacion Oeste in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 1 issued a reminder to candidates participating in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) on the prohibition of nailing or tacking campaign posters and materials on trees. This reminder is based on Presidential Decree No. 953, which penalizes the…
FOR ALLEGED PREMATURE CAMPAIGNING DESPITE the official start of the campaign period on Thursday, October 19, over a hundred candidates in Pangasinan were alleged to have conducted premature campaigning. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has issued show cause orders to over 150 candidates in the province for their alleged involvement…
THE committee on appropriations of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan started hearings for the proposed 2024 annual budget of Pangasinan, totaling P5.7 billion. Vice Governor Mark Lambino said since the proposed Appropriation Ordinance No. 4-2023 passed its first reading, it was immediately referred to the committee chaired by Third District Board Member…
TIT-FOR-TAT – -Dagupan City Vice Mayor Bryan Kua and five members of the minority bloc led by Minority Leader Michael Fernandez field questions from the media after filing their consolidated complaint against Councilors Redford Erfe-Mejia, Irene Lim-Acosta and Alipio Serafin Fernandez for illegal detention, oppression and slander at the City Prosecutors’…
RUCKUS MARS DAGUPAN SP SESSION CHAOS erupted during the October 10 session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod as the majority caucus attempted to defer the approval of the minutes for the council’s past sessions discussing the 2023 annual budget. Particularly for the minutes of the September 26 and October 3 council…
‘BANGING of the gavel by the presiding officer after a motion to adjourn is duly seconded, is the only way a session can be terminated.’ This is Vice Mayor Bryan Kua’s reaction to the recent ruckus in the October 10 session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod that ended in a walkout…
A 30-year-old woman from Barangay Balagan in Binmaley town was one of the two Filipino casualties in the recent attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas on Israel, on October 9. This information was confirmed by Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo through a post on the social media…
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