WITH APPROVED P1.3-B BUDGET MAYOR Belen Fernandez expressed her satisfaction with the approval of Dagupan’s P1.3 billion 2023 annual budget highlighted the importance in realizing essential programs and projects envisioned for the city’s residents with the budget’s approval. With the approved budget in place, over 2,500 scholars from disadvantaged families…
SEAWALL PROJECT SECOND District Rep. Mark Cojuangco said Governor Ramon Guico III might have been misled by some individuals with political agenda on the true status of the seawall project in Lingayen. This was the impression of Cojuangco amid reports in mainstream and social media that the he was not…
“IT is an invented issue. There’s no issue. There’s no problem. It’s politics.” These were the words of Second District Rep. Mark Cojuangco on the controversial initial P75-M seawall project, in an interview with The PUNCH. The project became the subject of a committee hearing conducted on September 14, 2023,…
LINGAYEN residents are expressing strong opposition to the proposed construction of a seawall along Binmaley and Lingayen Beach, according to P/Colonel Sonny Versoza (retired). In an interview with Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan on September 27, Versoza, an officer of the Pangasinan PNP Retirees Association Inc., revealed that he has received numerous…
MECHANIZED, NO LONGER MANUAL FARMING – Farmers in Barangay Catablan in Urdaneta City have organized to use a modern tractor instead of relying on the usual manual harvesting in the past to rush the process to preempt extreme hot weather in the province. Their deal with the tractor owner: he gets…
FOUR candidates in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) are in danger of being disqualified after they were each issued show cause orders by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Provincial Office for premature campaigning. City Elections Supervisor Marino Salas did not disclose the names of the candidates to the…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPO) formed the ‘Task Force Kontra Bigay’ in the province to counter vote-buying and vote-selling in the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. initiated the formation of the task force in collaboration…
DAGUPAN City’s Mayor Belen Fernandez, as one of the representatives of the Philippines, participated in the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) World Summit, held from September 16 to 22 at the United Nations General Headquarters in New York, USA. The summit, organized as a precursor to the UN General Assembly,…
MANGATAREM-born Enoch Valdez, a collegiate basketball standout, was selected by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) pro team NLEX Road Warriors during the PBA Season 48 Rookie Draft Pick on Sunday, September 17. Valdez, who hails from Mangatarem town, was one of 79 names called during the draft pick out of…
QUESTION HOUR ON SEAWALL PROJECT — Gov. Ramon Guico III gestures as he asks representatives of the DPWH to explain how the ongoing seawall construction project was started without the required Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC). Beside him is Vice Governor Mark Lambino, presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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