The Batman craze is definitely over for the students and teachers of the University of Pangasinan High School. The icon of the creatures lost his fans after an undetermined number of bats are suspected to have settled in an abandoned warehouse on Nable Street near UPang and the stench from…
CAMP BGEN OSCAR M FLORENDO–The police in the Ilocos Region have been tapped by the Commission on Population (POPCOM) to help promote the Responsible Parenting Movement and Natural Family Planning (RPM/NFP). A memorandum of understanding was signed last week between POPCOM, represented by its regional director Oscar Mabalot, and the…
FIVE suspected members of the ‘bolt-cutter’ robbery group were intercepted and arrested by the police at a checkpoint in Bugallon town last week. Police Regional Director Ramon Gatan said the arrest is a major feat as the group is known to be responsible for several big robbery cases not just…
THE Asian Fisheries Academy (AFA) in Dagupan is hosting a 10-day training course on aquaculture technologies starting on August 24 for 240 people from Mindanao through the Harvest of Hope project of the Global Peace Festival. Aya Goto, executive director of the Global Peace Festival based in New York, USA,…
DAGUPAN CITY will soon have its own drug rehabilitation center to be operated by the Region 1 Medical Center of the Department of Health. R1MC Chief Dr. Roland Mejia said the rehab center will initially cater to out-patients while in-patients will be accommodated as soon as the center’s two dormitories…
BOLINAO–A namesake of one of the main characters in the Noli Me Tangere novel of national hero Jose Rizal, Crisostomo Ibarra, was shot dead by one of his drinking mates on the evening of August 23 in Barangay Luna here. The police is now hunting the suspected shooter, Joel Ritualo,…
IF THE regional supervisor of the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) could have his way, at least eight drugstores in the province will be closed for operating without a licensed pharmacist. However, Renato Padilla, head of BFAD Region 1, said his office can only go as far as submit…
THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is in good financial shape and Pangasinan, the model province in the country in terms of health insurance coverage, stands as a testament to that. Dr. Leo Cardona, regional director and vice president of PhilHealth, gave this assurance as he cited the growing number…
STA. BARBARA–An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) has expressed disappointment over the apparent growing disinterest of the young in farming. Wilfredo Pal-laya, officer in charge of the Department of Agriculture Ilocos Integrated Agricultural Research Center (ILLARC) Satellite Station III, said this is reflected in the drop in the…
URDANETA CITY–Cash prizes are up for grabs for homes and barangays here with the best backyard vegetable gardens. The Backyard Vegetable Gardening contest, launched recently to provide additional incentive to the communities to pursue self-reliance in food production, will reward household winners with P30,000, P20,000 and P10,000 for the first,…
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