‘NOT SUSTAINABLE TODAY’ MAYOR Belen Fernandez vetoed the ordinance passed by the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod seeking to increase the allowances of key court officials in Dagupan City. Ordinance No. 2273-2023, intended to raise the monthly allowances provided by the city government to judges, prosecutors, and public attorneys…
UNSINKABLE PORTA BOAT FOR DAGUPAN RESCUE OPS – A personnel of the Department Of Science and Technology demonstrates to CDRRMO personnel how DOST’s invented unsinkable Rescue Porta Boat is operated. The city is the first recipient of the boat in Region 1 in view of the city’s severe flooding occasionally. (Punchphoto by…
THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region 1 advised the Dagupan City government to ‘do everything it can’ in order to accomplish up its programs and projects’ per approved budget The advisory came after the Sangguniang Panlungsod, on September 26, approved the city’s P1.3 billion annual budget…
“THERE is no breakup within AGuiLa,” (Alyansang Guico Lambino)” This was stressed by Vice Governor Mark Lambino in an interview with The PUNCH, as he brushed off rumors that the political alliance may be in shambles. “AGuila is AGuila. It is bigger than one. It is bigger than two. AGuila…
2023 ANNUAL BUDGET FINALLY PASSED – Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez signs the approved P1.3 billion 2023 ordinance, three months before December 31, 2023, that was made possible by the minority bloc after almost a year of rejection by the majority bloc. Standing behind her witnessing the historical signing are: (from left) Councilors Joshua Bugayong, Dennis…
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…
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