THE implementation of the monumental project of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and the Pangasinan provincial government officially started after the groundbreaking of the P34-billion Pangasinan Link Expressway (PLEx) and the unveiling of its marker in a ceremony held along Barangay Balligi, Laoac town on March 21. In his speech, Ramon…
DAGUPAN City is set to be declared as the 13th Justice Zone in the Philippines on Monday, March 25. This was confirmed by the Justice Sector Coordinating Council (JSCC) in a statement Wednesday, March 20. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says the JSCC serves as “the vehicle for institutionalizing mechanisms…
PROCLAMATION No. 498, s. 2024, signed by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., declared April 5, 2024 a ‘Special Non-Working Holiday’ in Pangasinan to commemorate the 444th Foundation Day of Pangasinan and to observe the significance of the historic day. The proclamation came after Governor Ramon V. Guico III, requested the…
IT’S only mid-March and almost 600 hectares of agricultural lands in Pangasinan already dried up due to the impact of El Niño. This was bared by the Department of Agriculture Region I, through its Fields Operations Division chief Analiza Ramos. Ramos said 578 hectares with planted crops, including rice, corn,…
FREE ASSISTIVE DEVICES FOR PWD — More than 200 wheelchairs, 50 hearing aids and other assistive devices are turned-over by the Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines, Inc. to the provincial government through the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office for distribution to beneficiaries in Pangasinan in a ceremony held at the…
NO NEW ISSUES RAISED, LACKS LEGAL BASIS THE motion for reconsideration filed by one of three opposition councilors in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan City, who were all indicted in an affidavit complaint filed by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua and five minority councilors before the Dagupan City Prosecution Service, was denied…
DAGUPAN Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia was separately indicted by the Acting City Prosecutor for Dagupan City on the complaint filed by his fellow councilors for “Prohibition, Interruption and Dissolution of peaceful meeting defined and penalized under Article 131 of the Revised Penal Code”. This was contained in a resolution signed on…
COMBINED police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives seized 130 grams of suspected shabu and arrested a suspect in a drug sting on March 13 in Barangay Poblacion, Malasiqui town. By virtue of a search warrant, lawmen nabbed Keneth John Zacarias, 33, a resident of the barangay. The confiscated suspected…
HELLO CSWD! WHERE ARE YOU?– Three homeless families have camped out under the Pantal-Lucao Bridge De Venecia Diversion Road (AB Fernandez Ave. West) Dagupan City for the past 2 months and their presence there seems to be invisible to the City Social Welfare Department. If the families are not relocated, soon the…
THE five-minority in the Dagupan Sanggunian went on record last week seeking to invalidate the new amendments introduced by the opposition in the Internal Rules of Procedures or House Rules of the Sangguniang Panlungsod constantly being cited by the latter to justify regularity of its actions and recommendations. But simply…
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