THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), particularly the 7- member majority, has some explaining to do to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) regional office when it inquired into the status of Proposed Supplemental Budget No. 1 before reviewing the approved Supplemental Budgets No. 2 and soon No. 3 ….
WHY DID ONION FARMER DIE? INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos ordered DILG Pangasinan provincial director Virgilio Sison to ‘take a leave’ for failing to report alleged harassment of the wife of an onion farmer in Bayambang town. Abalos, in a statement, Tuesday, January 24, said Sison did not…
LAST TWO DAYS FOR B&SK ELECTIONS WITH only two days left before the end of the voter registration for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections this October 2023, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Dagupan City decided to end it in a mall at the City Mall in Barangay Mayombo. Atty….
8TH YEAR COMMEMORATING FALLEN 44 RESIDENTS of San Nicolas town commemorated the heroism of their PO2 Ephraim Mejia, one of the fatalities in the heroic sacrifice of SAF 44, on Wednesday, January 25, eight years after the ambush in Maguindanao. Town mayor Alice Primicias-Enriquez, along with Pangasinan Police Provincial Office…
DAGUPAN IS COVID-FREE WITH only 14 active cases recorded by the Provincial Health Office as of January 22, 2023, Pangasinan remains under Alert Level 1 quarantine classification. And if the trend continues, provincial health officials are optimistic that Pangasinan may be declared COVID-free. This was gleaned during the Question Hour…
LUNAR YEAR PARADE IN THE CITY – Dagupan residents turn out to watch the parade organized by the Chinoy community led by the Dancing Dragon and to partake of the hundreds of boxes of tikoy shared by organizers. (Dagupan CIO News)
MORE ANOMALOUS TRANSACTIONS MAYOR Belen Fernandez has given the go-signal to City Legal Officer Aurora Valle to file charges against more former city officials involved in anomalous contracts and projects. To be charged additionally were key officials (and contractors) involved in the purchase of two undelivered motorboats and Closed Circuit…
MAJORITY’S COMMITTEE HEARING ON BUDGET CAN a city mayor be required to attend a public committee hearing of the committee on finance, budget and appropriations to respond to questions on the proposed 2023? This question arose after Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia sent an invitation to Mayor Belen Fernandez urging her to…
THE proposal to schedule the hearing and discussions on the Proposed Ordinance No. 818 seeking to enact the proposed Annual Budget of Dagupan for Fiscal Year 2023 in plenary was rejected by the majority members of the Dagupan sanggunian during its regular session last January 17. By a vote of…
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