PASSAGE OF DAGUPAN 2023 BUDGET DELAYED AGAIN THE members of the majority-opposition did not only make good on its assurance that the committee on finance, budget and appropriations that submit its report on the 2024 annual city budget to the plenary session on March 12 but worse, they decided to…
TALABA FESTIVAL IS BACK – Residents and visitors have their fill of huge ‘Alaminos talaba ‘ (oyster ) brand harvested in barangays Pangapisan, Mona, Cayucay, and Balayedaan in Alaminos City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TALABA FESTIVAL IS BACK
FOR STUDENTS FROM FOUR UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES EIGHTY students will benefit from a scholarship grant from South Korea’s Lotte Scholarship Foundation (LSF) following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between LSF and four educational institutions in Pangasinan on March 8. The MOU was signed by Gov. Ramon Guico III…
Lotte Scholarship Foundation grants 80 scholarships
THE Department of Health–Center for Health Development 1 (DOH-CHD 1) started closely monitoring rising levels of diarrhea cases in the region. Up until February 2024, the region registered more than 3,000 cases, out of which Pangasinan reported 1,478; followed by La Union with 1,023; Ilocos Norte with 415; and Ilocos…
DOH 1 on the alert for rise in diarrhea cases
FOR INDIGENT PATIENTS THE Department of Health (DOH) is set to provide the funds for the implementation of the Medical Assistance for Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients (MAIFIP) program this year in all 14 government hospitals in Pangasinan. The 14 government health facilities, namely: Asingan Community Hospital, Bayambang District Hospital,…
Pangasinan’s 14 hospitals get P55.44M grant from DOH
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Bus companies preparing for Holy Week vacation BUSES with terminals in Dagupan City are preparing for a flood of commuters coming and going out of the province during the Holy Week, a week after next. Terminal officials said prior to Holy Week, they always see…
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HIGH POLICE VISIBILITY IS ON – Most town and city police stations in Pangasinan have begun deploying more personnel in popular tourist destinations like the Binmaley Beach Baywalk to ensure peace and order in the area. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
HIGH POLICE VISIBILITY IS ON
EXPECT more policemen on the streets and along tourists’ destinations in Region 1 when thousands of visitors arrive for the Holy Week observance. P/BGen. Lou Evangelista told Pangasinan newsmen on March 13 that Region 1 has many beautiful tourist spots accessible to Metro Manila only three hours drive now via the…
PNP Region 1 ready for Holy Week observance
DREAMS of a 21-year-old college student were shattered when she became a victim of rape and murder in Barangay Balangobong in Lingayen town, March 11, Friday evening. Allysa Bolasoc, a third-year student of Pangasinan State University was, found dead caught in the fishing net half-naked without her underwear late Sunday…
College student raped, killed by pervert
AN official of the Philippine Army told members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on Monday that Pangasinan remains insurgency-free and there were no sightings of insurgents in the province over the past two years. Lt. Col. Benny Singca, battalion commander of the 71st Infantry (Kaibigan) Battalion of the Philippine Army based in…