EARTHQUAKE DRILL UNDER THE SUN – Students of Dagupan City National High School cover their heads with books for the drill and for protection from the sun while waiting for the drill to end during the first quarterly nationwide earthquake drill on Thursday. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
LEGAL OPINIONS FOR WRONG CLAIMS? THE majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is not willing to accept the legal opinion issued by the regional office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in response to the issues raised by the minority without further clarification. Councilor Alfie…
“STOP PLAYING POLITICS!” IN exasperation, the chairman of the Sangguniang Kabataan of Dagupan delivered a privilege speech, calling on his colleagues in the Sangguniang Panlungsod, particularly those in the majority, to stop playing politics and finally pass the proposed 2023 budget citing the continued sufferings of many residents in the…
1,245 “SCHOLARS” PURGED FINALLY on March 6, the Dagupan City government distributed scholarship funds to 781 of the original 2,300 scholars of the past city administration at P20,500 per scholar to cover their tuition fees and allowances for one semester in a big event that again crowded CSI Stadia spearheaded…
KNOWN for her candor when meeting with media, Senator and presidential sister Imee Marcos expressed disappointment over the failure of both the national (and local governments) to fully support farmers in Pangasinan after she met with farmers’ groups on their situation and to be updated about status of the government’s…
THE TREE-CUTTING BEGINS ANEW – A signboard is posted on the highway informing the public that the ongoing tree-cutting activity along the Urdaneta-Sta. Barbara-Calasaio highway is permitted by the DENR while personnel and equipment from the DPWH and the Provincial Engineering Office are busily cutting mango trees simultaneously on both sides…
UNLESS and until the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan grant the jeepney operators’ request for the extension of the deadline for the implementation of the Local Transport Route Plan (LTRP), there will be no traditional jeepneys on the streets to serve commuters after March…
3 DEAD, 32 INJURED THREE persons were killed and 32 persons injured when a mini dump truck that was overloaded with 35 passengers fell from a hill when it developed engine trouble along the newly built Daang Katutubo in Sitio Mapita, Barabgay Laoag in Aguilar at about 6:00 p.m. on…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered the police to step up its monitoring of activities inside bars and night clubs after video footages of young girls shamelessly getting wild inside the establishments and were being shared on social media. She gave the order in her speech during the flag ceremony…
TO ASH THOU SHALT RETURN — Rev. Fidelis Layog, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, marks ash on the foreheads of provincial government employees and police officers during the Holy Mass at the Provincial Training and Development Center II (PTDC2) at the Capitol Compound in Lingayen in observance of Ash…
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