TWO weeks of respite for the long holidays, Task Force Bantay Ilog of the Dagupan City government is back to do its work, monitoring and demolishing illegal fish pens. The Task Force (TF) headed by Abel Abueme, along with a Team from the PNP SWAT began visiting oversized existing illegal…
FIFTY-one victims of firecracker explosion were recorded in the province by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO). The number more than tripled the 16 number of firecracker injuries registered in Pangasinan. P/Major Ria Tacderan, PPPO information officer, however, pointed out that the firecracker victims this year suffered only minor injuries…
NO MACARTHUR STATUE AT THE MARKER – After the Dagupan City government constructed the impressive MacArthur Landing Park at the Tondaligan Beach, visitors are wondering if the statue of General Douglas MacArthur will be erected there to lay claim that he landed in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
GOVERNOR Ramon Guico III will lead the commemoration of the 78th Lingayen Gulf landings and 16th Pangasinan Veterans Day on January 9 at the Capitol Complex in Lingayen. The annual event memorializes the landing of the Allied Liberation Forces led by General Douglas Mac Arthur in the shores of Lingayen…
MOST FIRECRACKER VICTIMS IN PANGASINAN THE New Year revelry in Region 1 was generally peaceful and orderly notwithstanding Department of Health-Center of Health Development’s report that there were 28 victims of firecracker explosions treated in various hospitals as of January 3, 2023. This was the report of P/Brig. General John Chua,…
EXPRESS DELIVERY TO ILLEGAL FISH PENS – A boatman gingerly balances the load of sacks of commercial fish feeds before rushing to unload these to more than 1,000 illegal fish pens that continue to operate in Dagupan’s island barangays. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
NOTHING FOR THE PEOPLE – Supplemental Budget No. 1and its concurrent Supplemental Annual Investment Program No. 1 are dead in the water after the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod rejected their inclusion in the agenda of a special session called by Mayor Belen Fernandez on December 29. Th inclusion was flatly…
NOTHING FOR CITY PROGRAMS, JUST FOR CITY HALL EMPLOYEES THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed the Supplemental Budget No. 2 of Calendar Year 2022 and a separate resolution approving the proposed Supplemental Annual Investment Plan for the same year, certified urgent by the Office of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. The…
THE Liga ng Barangay (LnB) in Dagupan City manifested its dismay and exasperation on seeing the plans and programs of the city government for the barangays completely derailed by the majority members of the SP who succeeded in blocking the Supplemental Budget No. 1 up to the last day. The…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office led all four police provincial offices in accomplishments at the Police Region Office 1 Office, from December 19 to 25. This was gleaned from the weekly report of PRO 1 released by P/Brigadier General John Chua, police regional director. The report showed the Pangasinan PPO…
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