WOMEN WARNED LADIES beware! Cellular phone snatching has become more rampant in Dagupan City after drug dealers started to accept phones as currency for buying the illegal drug shabu. Police reports show that main targets of snatchers are females and are attacked during the evening and early morning hours by…
LINGAYEN–The people have not forgotten. And neither has the provincial council. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan, through a resolution initiated by Fourth District Board Member John Agerico Rosario, chairman of the provincial board’s Committee on Health, has called on the concerned agencies to provide an update on the investigation of the expired…
LINGAYEN—Governor Amado Espino Jr. headed a delegation from the province that left for China on August 19 for a one-week official visit. Espino will sign a memorandum of understanding with his counterpart in Sichuan province in preparation for the possible establishment of sisterhood relations between Pangasinan and Sichuan. Tian Qixiang,…
A Bureau of Immigration (BID) officer in Dagupan City has filed graft and corruption charges against his immediate superior, another BID officer as well as one Filipino and one Korean citizen. Complainant Augusto de Venecia, 43, of Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, charged that his boss, BID alien control officer and…
MOTOCYCLE-RIDING KILLERS STRIKE AGAIN BAYAMBANG–Another case of drive-by killing perpetrated by two men on board a motorcycle took place here, claiming the life of a district supervisor of the Department of Education (DepEd). The victim was identified as Rogelio Cayabyab, 60, who was gunned down at around 5:30 p.m. at…
ASINGAN–For attempting to enforce a barangay ordinance, the kapitan of Barangay Carosucan Sur in this town has been suspended for misconduct by the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon, but fellow officials and members of the community are crying foul over the decision. Barangay Chairman Gem Salvador Sapigao, 36,…
LINGAYEN–Fourteen towns in the province do not have a fire station nor fire trucks, according to SFO1 Luther Vallejos, officer-in-charge-provincial chief administrator of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP). These towns are Infanta, Dasol, Mabini, Burgos, Anda, Aguilar, Labrador, Laoac, Bautista, Alcala, Natividad, Sto. Tomas, Urbiztondo and San Jacinto.
STA. BARBARA–The country’s first municipal-level Mamang Pulis store that sells goods at prices 15% lower than prevailing market rates to policemen and their dependents, was opened here on Monday. The store is a project of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Service Store System (SSS) as part of the benefits of…
“TOKYO Tokyo”, a popular Japanese fast food chain, is expanding in Northern Luzon with two branches set to open in Dagupan and one in La Union within the year. Joy de Asis, licensing officer of Tokyo Tokyo, led the groundbreaking rites last week of the Tokyo Tokyo store at the…
DRUGSTORE chains, private and public hospitals in Region 1 are fully complying with the new Cheaper Medicine Law. Renato Padilla, food and drugs supervisor of the Department of Health-Bureau of Food and Drugs in Ilocos, said that drugstores and hospitals in Dagupan City, Laoag City, Batac and Vigan have brought…
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