SLOW PROGRESS — With just a few workers on site, progress on the construction of a new Dagupan City Hall building appears slow. The project broke ground in May 2022 under then-Mayor Brian Lim, who said completion was expected by December of that year. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
NBI, COA, OMBUDSMAN ASKED TO ASSIST THE Blue Ribbon Committee of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) will continue its hearing on a proposed resolution seeking to authorize the City Legal Office to file criminal cases before the Ombudsman against contractors of the past city administration whose projects were substandard, abandoned,…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution on August 18 commending the exemplary performance of the Dagupan City Police Station, under the leadership of its new chief, P/Lt. Colonel Lawrence Keith Calub, for his swift action resulting in the solution of two high-profile crimes and the arrest of a foreign national…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez said she is in full accord with the manifesto of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) supporting President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s call for transparency and accountability on flood control projects. The manifesto, dated August 22, 2025, was signed by San Juan City Mayor…
THIRD District Rep. Rachel Arenas has assured consumers that she will work to find concrete solutions to the persistent power supply problems within the service area of Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (CENPELCO). In a Facebook post on August 20, 2025, Arenas said that as vice-chair of the House Committee on…
GOVERNORS AND MAYORS FOR A STRONGER ASEAN — Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez (front row, 4th from right) stands among governors, mayors and other leaders from South East Asian countries, including the Philippines, as they gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 10-15 to discuss and shape the region’s future…
DPWH, NIA, R1MC REGIONAL OFFICIALS ABSOLVED THE Office of the Ombudsman dismissed for lack of merit two anti-graft complaints filed by a municipal employee of Binmaley against former mayor and vice mayor Simplicio Rosario and regional heads of three different agencies. The other respondents were Region 1 Medical Center chief…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved a 10-day rent holiday for stallholders and tenants of the Malimgas Public Market and the new Galvan Market covering the period July 21 to 31, 2025 in consideration of their loss from the widespread flood spawned by Typhoon Crising, days of monsoon rains, and compounded…
COUNCILORS NOTE TRAFFIC CONGESTION THE Dagupan City council passed a resolution on August 14, urging the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to direct its contractors to fast-track the completion of all road and drainage projects in the city, noting that unfinished segments have been causing traffic gridlock. Councilor Luis…
FISH pen operators in Dagupan City were a no-show at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) committee hearing last week on a proposed ordinance that seeks to integrate and give more teeth to all existing local laws against illegal fish pens that are again teeming in the city’s various rivers. The hearing…
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