RISE IN UNSOLVED KILLINGS NOTED LINGAYEN–The two-strike policy for chiefs of police has been revived in Pangasinan following another spate of unsolved killings perpetrated by unidentified gunmen, many of them are believed to be guns-for-hire and riding in tandem on motorcycles. Senior Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte, police provincial director, announced this when…
BARAAN CLEARS ALAMINOS ALAMINOS CITY–Mayor Hernani Braganza has breathed a sigh of relief as he believes the city government has been finally vindicated over the issue of alleged illegal fishponds in the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP). Braganza, who just arrived last week from an international conference in Mexico, said…
WARNING VS. DRUG PUSHERS–A coffin is placed on the roadside in Barangay San Leon, Umingan in full view of passing motorists as a threat to drug pushers who insist on their illegal activities in the village. Back to Homepage
UMINGAN–Death to drug pushers! This is the strong warning sent out by one barangay in this town by displaying a coffin right at the entrance to the village. Prominently displayed on the side of the national highway, the coffin is hard to miss and motorists passing through coming from and…
THERE will be no extension on the November 30 deadline set by the Dagupan City government for the dismantling of all illegal fishpens and other structures in the city’s rivers. “November 30 is the deadliest deadline. I will do the dismantling myself, if they still remain in the river after…
CHRIST THE KING CELEBRATION–A huge crowd of Catholic devotees give way to priests walking towards the stage installed in front of the provincial capitol ahead of the main Holy Mass celebrant Archbishop Socrates Villegas during the archdiocese’s Christ the King celebration in Lingayen on November 21, hosted by the provincial…
LINGAYEN–Some 30,000 Catholics from four Vicariates of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese gathered at the Capitol grounds on November 21 for this year’s Christ the King festivity, the first time that the celebration was held in conjunction with the provincial government. Archbishop Socrates Villegas stressed in his homily during the Mass that…
BACTERIA SCARE—Doctors Calixto Alano, Michael Canto and Arnel Gazmin (left to right) of the Region 1 Medial Hospital hold a press conference to clarify a purported report that some wards in the government-owned hospital have been closed due to deadly microscopic bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Back to Homepage
A RUMOR about the widespread presence of a deadly miscroscopic bacteria in the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) last week caused public panic and fear particularly inside the hospital. R1MC officials, in a hastily called press conference, explained that the scare was without basis since the bacteria known as Pseudomonas…
ASINGAN–The remains of the three Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from Pangasinan who died during a fire that razed their apartment in Dubai last November 6 arrived Thursday night and are now back in their respective homes. The three, who were cousins, were Ariel Soberano and Renalyn Luna, both of Barangay…
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