Massive Replanting of Trees Ensue at the Capitol

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Move out bashers, massive replanting of trees ensue now at the Capitol!

Personnel of the Guico Administration here have been buried in work planting trees at the periphery of the Capitol after 192 invasive and endemic trees have been cut off to pave the way for the constructions of an eleven-story government center, an eight-story corporate tower, and the redevelopment of the Capitol Complex.

Bigger Budget for Mangaldan Next Year

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – The annual appropriation budget of Pangasinan Top 5 “richest” town is growing stronger based on the PHP 478 million indicative National Tax Allotment (NTA) for year 2027.

In a flag ceremony held here recently, Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno crowed that compared to this year’s NTA, the NTA next year will be bigger.

BIR Reg.-1 Has New Director, Other Brass

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

DAGUPAN CITY - Due to the exigencies of the revenue service, the regional office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Region 1 has a new director in Narciso T. Laguerta, DIR 1, after his predecessor was transferred to another post.

In the Revenue Transfer Assignment Order (RTAO) No. 152-2026 dated June 6, 2026, BIR Commissioner Charlito Martin R. Mendoza ordered the transfer of Marlon M. Mendoza, DIR 1, who was OIC-Regional Director No. 1 in Ilocos Region to be the OIC-Regional Director of Revenue Region No. 17 in the CARAGA Region.

­­­In the March 10, 2026 RTAO, Aurora V. Flor, CRO-IV, was transferred from Regional Investigation Division Revenue Region No. 7A Quezon City to OIC-Assistant Regional Director Revenue Region No. 1 in the Ilocos Region.

BIR Region -1 covers the four provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, and the sizable Pangasinan. The latter has six Revenue District Offices (RDOs) in central Pangasinan, eastern Pangasinan, and western Pangasinan.

In the January 26 RTAO RDO Chief Eden R. Serafica, CRO-IV, was transferred from RDO No. 2 in Abra, Revenue Region No. 2 in the Cordillera Administrative Region to RDO No. 4, Central Pangasinan in Revenue Region No. 1, Ilocos Region.

In the March 10, 2026 RTAO, RDO Chief Aldrin A. Camba, CRO-IV, was transferred from RDO No. 5 West Pangasinan, Revenue Region No. 1, Ilocos Region to RDO No. 6 East Pangasinan in Revenue Region No. 1, Ilocos Region.

RDO Chief and Lawyer Liza C. Dimaya from RDO No. 18 Zambales, Revenue Region No. 4, Central Luzon to RDO No. 5, West Pangasinan in Revenue Region No. 1, Ilocos Region.

The BIR calendar year (CY) 2026 collection was revised to P3.431 Trillion.

Oldest Running Newsweekly’s Sunday Punch Folds

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY -- Reports that reach this writer say that Sunday Punch will cease circulation for the four cities and forty-four towns’ Pangasinan after one last issue to be printed this week.

The English provincial newspaper has been the perennial leading community weekly in the gargantuan province. It was founded in July 1956 by Ermin Erfe Garcia, Sr. in this second class city until online publications – that could post news stories as they unfold -- gave it a run of its money.

MERRERA, MAMENTA VS. ALIPIO (ANING), DELA CONCHA?

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Pangasinan 2^nd District Cong. Mark Cojuangco closest ally Councilor Jallen “Aning” Alipio is rumored to slugged it out with two-term Binmaley Mayor Pete Mererra in the May 2028 election.

I saw at Facebook the faces of Aning – a graduating Solon - being egged to run against Merrera where she is either in tandem with Councilors Ikong Francisco or Ariel Dela Concha.

JDV on Sitio Russia in Dagupan, Putin Russia

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

When the more than a decade photos of former five-time House Speaker Joe de Venecia (+), affectionaley called JDV, popped up on my Facebook page, it flashed back how I first met and exchanged chitchats with him one noontime in 2008 at his swanky abode in the coastal village of Barangay Bonuan Binloc while he was fanning the glowing charcoals to sear in a grill some sumptuous Dagupan bangus (milk fish).

PHOTO of the writer with Speaker Joe de Venecia (+).

This was after February 4, 2008 when he was ousted as Speaker through the gung-ho congressional allies of President Gloria Arroyo after his son Joey exposed to the public that Jose Miguel Arroyo – the hubby of La Presidenta Gloria -- brokered bribes related to a multi-million-dollar government broadband deal with China. De Venecia corroborated the expose’ of his son and accused, too, the Arroyo administration of corruption.

“When you were at the pedestal of power I was your harsh critic but now that nobody visited you here (figures from all over the country who wanted to land in high government positions paid obeisance to the formidable politician) because they avoid the wrath Gloria Arroyo, I come here to commiserate to your plight,” I told JDV whose eyes brightened seeing and hearing the No. 1 attack dog of his nemesis former Pangasinan 4th District Congressman Benjie Lim barged to his property while waving the Olive Branch because a media pal Ronel de Vera egged him to visit the Speaker.

SITIO RUSSIA IN DAGUPAN

While De Venecia and I exchanged about the brouhahas in the South China Sea, Ronel blurted in Pangasinan: “Mr. Speaker kamusta lay so strike demad Sitio Russia ditan Bangus Processing Plant? (How’s the strike in Sitio Russia there in the Bangus Processing Plant, Mr. Speaker?)”.

The place is the Korea-Philippines Seafood Processing Complex (KP-SPC) which is a stone’s throw away at the residence of De Venecia. The KP-SPC was a U.S $2.2 million (P132 million) grant (gratis, libre, free!) Bangus Processing Plant given by the South Korean Government to the City as requested by the powerful Speaker.

De Venecia thought Ronel spoke about Russia the mammoth country thus he regaled us with those international leaders and their conundrums that he was trying to help solve.

PUTIN RUSSIA

“Russia? I was there last week in Moscow. I told President Vladimir Putin how to settle his problem with the Chechen rebels who were bombings the country,” he quipped to us.

In the 1994-1996 war, the nascent democratic capitalist Russian country under the vodka-imbibing president Boris Yeltsin sent troops to Chechnya to prevent the Muslim dominanat populace to declare their independence. The Ivans were defeated by the rebels (long before Ukraine gives headache with its armed drones to the former KGB Putin) and Chechnya became independent.

When Putin became President, he defeated Chechnya in the 1999-2009 War and thus the country fell again to the control of Moscow.

NORTH KOREA

Speaker De Venecia crowed to us that he talked with North Korea Strongman Kim Jong II (1994-2011) and South Korea President Roo Moo-hyun to settle their differences and come to the table for their unification – he was probably referring how former commie’s East Germany solved her economic plight wrought by Marxist economy after she merged with the progressive capitalist West Germany after the fall of the Iron Curtains in Eastern Europe in November 9, 1989.

PERU

“I told Peru President Alberto Fujimori how to solve his problem with the Shining Path,” he told me. The commie insurgency there was just like our New People Army (NPA) that gave anxiety and sleepless nights to the Japanese/Peruvian descent El Presidente. Fujimori served as President of the western South American country from July 28, 1990 to November 22, 2000. Pro government death squad’s Grupo Colina proliferated under this term. After a self-coup (autogolpe) – listen Filipino politicians! – Fujimori dissolved Congress and the Court and usurped all those powers and put them under the executive department – ala MacCoy Senior the father of President Bongbong Marcos. In 1995 he was elected again after he rewrote the Constitution for his term up to 2000. In 2000 he won again in a highly controversial and heavily protested election. Just months into his third term his intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos was involved in a massive corruption scandal that saw Fujimori fled Peru and exiled himself to Japan.  

COLOMBIA

He discussed to us how Colombia government settled their problem with the Marxist-Leninist rebels’ FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaries de Colombia). The rightist government and the FARC had the longest warfare in the history of Latin America. Peace came to the shore of the South America country in 2016.

GLOBETROTTING

Even outside the circle of power, the former five –time Speaker was busy globetrotting because of his founding chairmanship and being the head of the standing committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). He initiated and co-founded, too, the Asian Peace and Reconciliation Council (APRC). APRC is composed of former presidents, prime ministers, and prominent thinkers—to assist with peace-building and conflict resolution.

SPUR-OF-THE-MOMENT

This lengthy column or blog was a spur-of-the-moment to Speaker Joe that I looked up because of his inimitable knowledge of world politics that I am up to present is enamored.

I was privileged to have countless Question and Answer or Q&A in English – of course –about how China Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping told him about the sovereignty issues on the Spratlys and how England, Germany, and Norway solve the oil revenue they siphoned at the seabed of the high seas of Norway.

“Deng Xiaoping proposed that we shall not (discuss) sovereignty for the meantime. Because if the Philippines insists sovereignty, China insists on sovereignty, Vietnam insists on sovereignty, well there will be war. So the practical step is to shelve the issue of sovereignty, and agree on one common development on the Spratly so that Vietnam, China and the Philippines that claims for oil and gas and hydrocarbons under an equity of 1/3, 1/3,1/3 profit sharing formula that eventually would have to bring in Malaysia, Brunei, whose acreage or whose claim, in the Spratlys are smaller than that of the three,” when I asked him the formula of consortium among claimant countries in the Spratly without resolving first the issue of sovereignty.

MY PAL RONEL

Did the Speaker recall Ronel’s Sitio Russia poser and give his advice how the demonstrators there and the management of the Bangus Processing Plant settle their differences? 

Naah! The quintessential Jose de Venecia and this writer were enmeshed with our geo-politics that Ronel just settled to listen, watch, and wait how those grilled sumptuous bangus and the adobo eel would be served at the dining table where the Speaker invited us too to join him with the pretty Missus Manay Gina Perez-de Venecia – the present 4^th District Congresswoman.

Mayor Gives Up After Spending P100-M for Vote Buying

 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.

P’SINAN, 44 TOWNS HURDLE PRESTIGIOUS GFH

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.

Free School Bags, Supplies for Pupils in Calasiao!

 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.

Resuello Agresibong Nakipag Lobby sa mga Senador, DepEd Sec

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.

Our Yachting Experience at Subic

 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.

22 Schools in Manaoag Receive P1.1-m From Mayor

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.

48K, Not 12K, Recipients of the Sako-Food-Bag in Calasiao

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.

De Venecia: Japan as Ph Closest, Most Reliable Ally

NIPPON PLEDGES P210-B INVESTMENT, ARMAMENTS

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – A prominent Congresswoman described Japan as the Philippines closest and most reliable ally for many decades after President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. spoke to the Diet (parliament) in his May 26-29 state visit there.

“So when the Japanese Parliament invited our President to address their lawmakers directly, it sends a very strong message that the Philippines is viewed as a serious, stable, and important parties in the region,” Pangasinan 4th District Rep. Gina P. de Venecia said.

Pilot Calls Marines: Army Mill Around Drums of Gas

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SHUTTLING with various military planes between Awang Airport in Dinaig, Maguindanao and Nichols Air Base (the present Villamor) in Pasay City when I was a kid in the late of 1970’s until the retirement from the air force of my father in 1981, one of the experiences that still embedded in my rich neocortex was when the fire proof flight fatigue suit clad pilot of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport plane that would take off in Pasay to Maguindanao barked to the various branches of services of soldiers spitting and whittling around: “Palapitin ninyo sa akin ang mga Marines diyan! Kayong mga Marines bantayan niyong maigi iyong mga drum na iyan. Puno iyan ng gasolina! Bantayan ninyo ang Army na sisindi ng sigarilyo habang lumilipad ang eroplano natin”.

Writer as a teenager shuttling with various military planes between Awang Airport in Dinaig, Maguindanao and Nichols Air Base (the present Villamor) in Pasay City.  (Illustration by Gemini)

Those dozens of cold rolled steel drums of 100/130 aviation gasoline (a high-octane leaded piston aviation fuel) and the JP-4 (kerosene-based aviation turbine fuel) would be used by the air force for their T-28 “Tora-Tora” Trojan radial-engine planes and UH-1H helicopters that bombed and strafed the Moro rebels hiding at their strongholds and redoubts in the provinces of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, North Cotabato, and some parts of Lanao.

Infras, Services Not Affected by Tax Reliefs on Quarry Operators - Capitol

THANKS TO ROBUST TAX COLLECTION IN THE 1ST QTR 

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Infrastructure projects and social services of the provincial government here could not be affected despite the tax relief given to quarry operators and the reduced toll fees imposed on them because of the robust revenue collections.

“(P)ag create po ng budget ng probinsya meron tayong expected na revenue at iyong revenue na iyan ay pampondo sa mga programa o proyekto ng probinsya. Sinagot po iyan ng provincial treasurer noong tinanong ko noong Friday lang iyong reduction sa collection natin. Ang sagot po niya ay ganito: Noong first quarter po natin maganda iyong collection ng province. We actually went beyond the target so kung ano man iyong surplus na kulekta natin because of the reduced rates. So wala pong existing na programa na maapektuhan o ma-cancel dahil una maganda ang collection natin,” said by Vice Governor Mark Ronald Lambino.

Can a Mayor Run in a 4th Term Because of a Broken 3rd-Term?

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

In my exchanges with politicians lately, a case of a third–term mayor cropped up who told some confreres that he could run for reelection despite the three-term (nine years) ban, as mandated by law.

His justification that his six months’ preventive suspension and the twelve months’ suspension meted in his second term because of the administrative cases from the Office of the President early this year broke the CONSECUTIVENESS (emphasis mine) of his three years’ terms.

Batas sa Vest, Light sa 2-3 Gulong na Sasakyan Sinuri

 Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza

SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – Sinusuri ng mga miyembro ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan sa pamumuno ni Bise Gobernador Mark Ronald Lambino ang ordinansang ipinasa sa bayang ito na nagpapatibay sa ordinansa ng pamahalaang panlalawigan ukol sa pagamit ng high-visibility reflective vest at light para sa mga rider ng mga sasakyang may dalawa at tatlong gulong.

Sa Ordinansa Blg. 4, Serye 2026 na isinumite ng mga miyembro ng Sangguniang Bayan dito para sa pagsusuri  ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan sa Lingayen, Pangasinan, ang ordinansa ay may pamagat na:

3 Basista Laws Undergo Reviews from the Prov’l Board

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Three newly passed Ordinances of Basista town have undergone review by the provincial lawmakers as required by law.

These ordinances are: Institutionalizing a drug-free workplace in the Local Government of Basista, Pangasinan and Appropriating Fund for the Implementation Thereof; Transferring Plantilla Position from One Office to Another in Some Offices of the Local Government Unit of Basista; and Prohibiting and Regulating the Use, Sale, and Distribution of Some of the Single Use Plastics in the Municipality of Basista, Pangasinan and Prescribing Penalties for Violation Thereof.

Lawmaker Sues at the Ombudsman for Distribution of Guarantee Letters

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, LL.B, MPA

BINMALEY, Pangasinan – A lawmaker in Pangasinan has been sued administratively and criminally at the Ombudsman by fellow government official after the former “illegally” issued Guarantee Letters from the Medical Assistance to Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients (MAIFIP) to patients.

MAIFIP is a Department of Health (DOH) program in the Philippines that provides financial assistance to help eligible patients pay for hospital bills, medicines, and medical procedures.

A "Pres. FVR Day" Should be Legislated

After Prov’l Dads Passed a “De Venecia Day”

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – If the provincial lawmakers in Pangasinan passed a "Speaker Jose C. de Venecia, Jr. Day" through Provincial Ordinance 56-2026, why not they legislate too a "President Fidel V. Ramos Day" since both gave indispensable contributions to the politics and economy of the country?

Ramos and De Venecia were born in March 18, 1928 in Lingayen, Pangasinan and December 26, 1936 in Dagupan City, respectively. They both have their official residences in Dagupan City and Asingan, Pangasinan where they practice their rights of suffrage every election day.

A.I Emulates My Style of Writings

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Yesterday, 10 PM was my deadline for our writers to submit all their columns and news articles to our newspaper. I still need one news to complete my quota of three news articles and one op-ed article for a week.

Since I was bereft of time, I wrote in English where I could do it fast instead of Tagalog where I have to pause and think about the right word in the vernacular. (example: Penetrating or obnoxious smells of the rotting garbage (nakakasulasok na amoy ng mga bulok na basura).

Mangaldan Nakasungkit ng P65-M Pondo sa Nat’l Gov’t

 Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – Sa pamamagitan ng masigasig na pamumuno ng alkalde ng progresibong bayang ito, isang malaking pondo na nagkakahalaga ng P65 milyon para sa mga farm-to-market roads (FMR) at rice distribution ang nakuha mula sa pambansang pamahalaan. 

Ang pondong P55 milyon at P10 milyon ay nagmula sa Kagawaran ng Agrikultura (DA) at sa Ugnayang Bayan Portal ng Local Government Unit (LGU) Support Fund, ayon kay Municipal Administrator Atty. Teodora Cerdan.

GRANDEUR

The Capitol Complex comes alive during the initial test run of its Reflecting Pool and Interactive Fountain, offering a preview of how magnificent it will look once fully completed. Even in this early stage, the lights and water display already create a vibrant space that draws in both locals and visitors.

This developing attraction is part of the ongoing redevelopment initiative by Governor Ramon V. Guico III, aimed at transforming the gigantic province of Pangasinan into a more beautiful, progressive province and a rising destination for world-class tourism. (PIMRO AND 101 TALK RADIO)

Pamamahala ng Parongking Inilipat na ni Guv sa Calasiao

Ni  Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Pinangunahan ng gobernador ng Pangasinan ang paglipat ng pamamahala ng Parongking River Clean-Up and Restoration Project sa lokal na pamahalaan dito.

“Ang proyekto pong ito ang katuparan ng ating tuloy-tuloy na River Rehabilitation and Flood Mitigation Program sa ating mga kailugan sa Pangasinan,” ani Gov. Ramon V. Guico III sa isang pagtitipon dito noong Abril 24 ng 2nd Quarter Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Council Meeting and Turnover Ceremony for the River Clean-Up & Restoration Project kung saan si Mayor Patrick A. Caramat ang pinakamataas na opisyal ng bayan na ito ang dumalo.

Para Kang Nakapunta sa Amerika

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

The photo caption from the Page's Pampanga and Clark Historical Image and Event says:

"Who misses this old look of Visiting Control Center circa 1980s at Clark Air Base? I'm sure lots of Angeleños did pass here once or twice in that era. I still remember that every year during the Filipino-American Friendship Day, everyone can pass here without getting your I.D".

The caption or the poser did make a spur of the moment for this

Writer in the Bangus City thus his comments below:

Pathetic Seeing Ph Light Fighters Join U.S Superiority Jets

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

Because a significant part of the government funds -- ₱700 billion annually or equivalent to roughly 20% of the national budget --  goes to the pockets of plundering Philippines officials, I pity seeing our airforce joining the yearly Cope Thunder being held at either Clark or Basa Air Base with our lightfigher cum trainer FA-50s operates with either the American F-16 multiple role figher (in years 2024 and 2025) and the superiority fighter’s F-22 Raptor for this year’s exercise.

Exercise Cope Thunder 26-1 started in April 6 and concluded on April 17, 2026 at Clark by bringing together the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) for intensive two-week joint air combat training. The exercise featured PAF FA-50s and U.S. F-22 Raptors, focusing on interoperability, defensive counter-air operations, and combat readiness in Northern Luzon.

Mababang Fare sa E-Bus na Ipapasok ng Guico Admin

 Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza 

 LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - Magpapagaan ng mga gastusin ng mga taga Pangasinan pag naipatupad na ang programa ni Governor Ramon V. Guico III na magkakaroon ng electric buses at Transport Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) na babaybay sa mga daang-bayan ng higanteng lalawigan.

 “This is a sample of a twelve-meter full electric city bus so low floor siya, forty person sitting capacity and forty standing”, ani Governor Guico noong State of the Province Address (SOPA) niya noong masambit niya ang Electronic Vehicle-Bus Rapid Transit (EV-BRT).

100 Years ni Our Lady of Manaoag, Malapit Na

Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANAOAG, Pangasinan – Puspusan ang paghahanda ng mga kawani ng local na pamahalaan dito hinggil sa Abril 22 na higanteng kaganapang Centennial Canonical Coronation of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Manaoag.

Ayon kay Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario, abala ang mga medical at security team para sa inaasahang pagdagsa ng mga deboto, na tinatayang aabot sa humigit-kumulang isang milyon.

MORATORIUM

 Department heads and the legal consultant of Mangaldan leads by their mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno (clad in black, center) meet the brass of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) at the municipal hall of the progressive town. The mayor said the two groups discuss the moratorium of the debt of the town with the government runs LBP. The latter acquiesced for a one - year moratorium instead of the three years requested by the local government.

Mga Barko sa Hormuz O.K na sa Iran na Dumaan

Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza

Kinumpirma ng Foreign Minister ng Iran na papayagan na nila ang pagdaan sa Strait of Hormuz ng mga barko ng mga ibat’t ibang bansa sa susunod na dalawang linggo sa ilalim ng pamamahala ng militar ng Iran, kasunod sa pagtanggap ni U.S President Donald Trump sa isang pansamantalang tigil-putukan (ceasefire), ayon sa newsreport ng Associated Press.

Matandaang nagbanta si Trump na dudurugin niya sa pagbomba ng mga hukbo niya ang mga imprastraktura ng Iran kaninang alas otso ng umaga sa Pilipinas pag hindi tinanggap ng Tehran ang kanyang 15-Point Ceasefire Agreement. Nagmatigas ang Iran at sila ay nagtagumpay na tanggapin ni Trump – na patiwarik na ang kanyang popularidad sa Estados Unidos at pwede pang ma-impeach -- ang 10-Point Ceasefire Agenda nila. Tatlo dito ay: 1. A permanent end to the war in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza with written guarantees from America; 2. The lifting of all economic sanctions; 3. Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz and the imposition of tolls for ships passing through.

Basista First Class Town na sa 2028

Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

BASISTA, Pangasinan – Pagtuloy-tuloy ang annual appropriation budget (AAB) na P210 million pataas ngayong taon hanggang taong 2027, pwede na ang third class na bayan na ito na uriin ng pambansang pamahalaan na first class town sa taong 2028.

May P209, 700, 034 budget ang third class na ito na makikita sa Second Congressional District ng Pangasinan. Unang AAB niya ito na nagkapondo siya ng mahigit dalawang daang milyong peso

Ang Pagiging 1st Class ni Mapandan sa 2029

Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

MAPANDAN, Pangasinan – Pagtuloy-tuloy ang P200 million above na annual appropriation budget (AAB) ng third class na bayan na ito hanggang sa taong 2028, maging first class town na siya sa taong 2029.

For the first time merong P218, 209, 788.00 AAB ang maliit na bayan na ito ngayong taon.

NO MORE DOCTRINE OF CONDONATION TO ELECTIVE OFFICIALS

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

When I saw the straight shooter former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales on my old photo I remembered the Doctrine of Abandonment of the Condonation in the Carpio-Morales v. Court of Appeals (G.R. No. 217126-27) case.

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio (third from left) and former Ombudsman Conchita Morales (a former SC Justice, too) (fifth from left) and others like President Noynoy Aquino's Solicitor General and COA Chief chuckled on my joke to them while an amused - damn, I did not immediately recognize him because he was thin, frail and on wheel chair - Aquino's Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario (extreme right).

The Jurisprudence ruled that any administrative misconduct committed by an elective official is no longer automatically forgiven by their reelection, allowing for investigation and removal from office regardless of the electoral outcome.

Kalbaryo ng TODA, Magsasaka sa Calasiao Naibsan

 Matapos Makahingi si Mayor Caramat ng Diskwento sa mga Taga Gas Station

Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Napagaan kahit papaano ang kalbaryo ng mga miyembro ng Tricycle Operators and Drivers' Association (TODA) at mga magsasaka dito matapos malagdaan ng lokal na pamahalaan at mga may ari ng mga gasolinahan na bigyan ng diskwento ang dalawang sektor.

PRO-ACTIVE Calasiao Mayor Patrick A. Caramat (far right top photo) and Vice Mayor Kevin Roy Macanlalay laud the owners of gasoline stations in the burgeoning town for giving discount per liter of diesel and gasoline to farmers and members of the Tricycle Operators and Drivers' Association (TODA) to mitigate their burden on the skyrocketing prices of fuel due to the war in the Middle East.

“Pormal na po nating nilagdaan kasama ang mga kinatawan ng mga gasoline station sa ating bayan ang isang Memorandum of Agreement para sa diskwento kada litro ng produktong petrolyo,” ani Mayor Patrick A. Caramat.

National Emergency ni Marcos

Ano ang Mangyayari sa Ilalim ng Deklarasyong Ito?

Ang deklarasyon ay tatagal ng isang taon at nagbibigay ng mga sumusunod na awtoridad sa gobyerno:

Pagkontrol sa Presyo at Suplay: Maaaring kumuha ng direktang hakbang ang Department of Energy (DOE) laban sa hoarding (pagtatago ng produkto) at profiteering (labis na pagpapatong ng presyo).

Mabilis na Pagbili ng Fuel: Pinapayagan ang gobyerno na magbayad ng advance (higit sa 15% ng contract amount) para masiguro ang mga kontrata ng langis sa ibang bansa.

UPLIFT Program: Inilunsad ang Unified Package for Livelihoods, Industry, Food, and Transport upang magbigay ng subsidiya at tulong sa mga sektor ng transportasyon at agrikultura na apektado ng mahal na krudo.

Energy Conservation: Inuutos ang mas mahigpit na pagtitipid sa kuryente at langis, kabilang ang paglilipat ng ilang opisina ng gobyerno sa four-day workweek.

P242-M Budget ng Dasol sa Taong Ito

Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

DASOL, Pangasinan – Ang progresibong second class na bayan na ito sa western Pangasinan ay may P241, 964, 934.00 na budget para sa taong 2026.

Ani Mayor Rizalde “Sadong” J. Bernal na isinalang noong Marso 11 ang nasabing pondo sa mga mambabatas ng lalawigan sa Kapitolyo sa Lingayen para sa kanilang pagsusuri  kung itong P242 milyon na pondo ay tugma sa mga batas sa bansa nang gawing Resolution ito dito.

Bugallon Magiging Isa sa Pinakamayaman na Bayan

 Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

BUGALLON, Pangasinan – Nagniningning ang bayan na ito sa pagiging isa sa pinakamayaman sa 44 munisipyo sa dambuhalang lalawigan ng Pangasinan sa pamamagitan na taunang budget sa kanyang local na pamahalaan.

Ang bayan na ito ay may kasalukuyang P410, 823, 947annual appropriation budget (AAB).

Maan Greets Guv's Happy Birthday!

 

PANGASINAN First Lady Maan Tuazon-Guico greets her husband  --Governor Ramon V. Guico III – while the latter celebrates his 51^st Birthday today held at the swanky Sison Auditorium at the Capitol in Lingayen.

The event is attended by high elective officials of the mammoth province and bigwigs at the Capitol.

4 NA TAON SA BAGONG TERMINO SA BRGY

Sa ilalim ng Republic Act 12232, ang mga elected Barangay Officials at Sangguniang Kabataan ay maglilingkod na ng 4 na taon.

𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮𝘆 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀: 4-year term, hindi hihigit sa 3 consecutive terms sa parehong posisyon.

𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗮𝗻: 4-year term, 1 term lamang sa parehong posisyon.

𝗡𝗢 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠 𝗜𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: Ang mga incumbent Barangay officials na kasalukuyang nasa ikatlong consecutive term ay hindi na maaaring tumakbo para sa parehong posisyon sa BSKE 2026.

Reference: Resolution No. 11207