By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA
A town mayor told me he will leave politics for good after his three-term (straight nine years) is completed.
“Magastos! Sariling pera ko na ang ginagastos ko sa mga taga dito. Noong huling eleksyon (May 2025) gumastos ako ng halos P100 million sa pakurong (vote buying), mga binibigay ko sa mga lider ko, at pakain sa mga tao ilang buwan bago mag eleksyon,” he told me when I dropped by at his office recently.
DAGUPAN CITY – The provincial government of Pangasinan and all its 44 towns , three cities including the independent component Dagupan City passed the 2025 Good Financial Housekeeping (GFH) based on the evaluation of the Department of Interior and Local (DILG) released in 2026.
On the March 9, 2026 Summary signed and released to the public by lawyer Rolynne A. Javier, CESO V, who is the Officer-in-Charge of the Bureau of the Local Government Supervision of the DILG, it stated there that all the four provincial governments in Region-1 and the forty-four towns’ local governments in Pangasinan hurdle the GFH.
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Free school bags and supplies have been distributed to the pupils of the public schools from grades 1 to 6 to here to show how their mayor supports their education and their future.
After the conveyances of these school supplies in the District 1, Mayor Patrick A. Caramat and the members of the officialdom of this thriving municipality in Pangasinan have been seen giving the same dole outs to the jubilant children in the District 2.
Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza
BASISTA, Pangasinan – Agresibong nananawagan at lumalapit ang alkalde rito sa ilang senador at sa Kalihim ng Edukasyon sa kanilang mga tanggapan sa Maynila upang humingi ng pondo para sa pagtatayo at pagkukumpuni ng mga gusali ng pampublikong paaralan, pati na rin ng pinansyal na tulong para sa mga nangangailangan.
Ilang araw ang nakalipas nang makapulong ni Mayor Jolly R. Resuello si Senador Bam Aquino, kung saan ipinaalam niya rito ang malubhang kalagayan ng ilang imprastraktura ng paaralan dahil sa katagalan ng panahon at sa pinsalang idinulot ng mga nagdaang kalamidad.
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
WHILE I was at the bow pulpit of the 50 passengers' capable P70 million La Banca Yacht (one of the 18 various types of Yachts that include schooner, sloop, ketch, and yawl) owned by Johnny Valdes of the La Banca Cruises) that hailed from the Subic Bay Yacht Club located at Rizal Avenue and Burgos Street in Zambales and navigated between the stretches of Sattler Pier and Bravo Pier, I saw a gray U.S made cutter turned offshore patrol vessel (the Yanks stripped it off with its lethal armaments when they donated three of it to us Filipinos) docked near the Bravo Pier that I later learned as the BRP Gregorio del Pilar with its 40 number (formerly 15) on its right hull.
“Pa’, that’s the naval ship we entered in 2013 at the deep water of Lingayen Gulf when you were invited to meet the ship Captain (the present Rear Admiral John Anthony Orbe (PMA ’92) when he was then a full Colonel or Navy Captain) and his Deputy (then Commander (Lieutenant Colonel) Julius E. Valdez (PMA ‘92),” my gym rat and boxing buff son quipped as he appeared from the stanchion at the starboard while I controlled my balance and held my digital desert camo bonnie hat because of the headwind.
P50-K for Each of the Schools for their Brigada Eskwela
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
MANAOAG, Pangasinan – The local government of the pilgrims’ town here provides P50, 000 for each of the 22 public elementary and high schools here for the Brigada Eskwela 2026.
“Every year, traditionally during Brigada (Eskwela) ang LGU ng Manaoag extends assistance to all public schools in Manaoag by giving P50,000 per school. Variable needs nila yero, pintura, semento, black board, upuan i-release namin tomorrow (June 3),” Mayor Jeremy Agerico “Ming” Rosario told this writer in the former office.
BASED ON A NUCLEAR FAMILY
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – It’s not 12,000 individuals but 48, 000 persons based on a nuclear family who benefited on the sako (woven fabric) food bags given recently here by the administration of Mayor Patrick A. Caramat.
An average nuclear family in the Philippines is composed of 4.1 household members that is composed of a father, mother, and their two children.
