FOR VIDEO GAME TIME A BOY, claiming to be 12 years old, arrested by the police in Dagupan in a buy-bust operation last Wednesday, admitted he agreed to act as a courier of illegal drugs to get extended hours of playing in a computer game shop. The suspect, Ibrahim Macalangan…
ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE FIVE barangays in Dagupan have been tagged by the local police as its “areas of immediate concern” against illegal drugs. Superintendent Romeo Caramat Jr., chief of police of Dagupan City, said the barangays of Pantal, Bonuan Binloc, Bonuan Gueset, Barangay II, and Barangay III are now under…
LEGAL ACTION—Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, a mayoralty candidate, and her running mate Michael Fernandez field questions about the filing of the certificate of candidacy of Belen Tamondong Fernandez, a 66-year old widow, during the Media in Action forum of the Pangasinan Press Club led by Atty. Gonzalo Duque, president…
URDANETA CITY—The National Police Commission (Napolcom) is conducting its own investigation on the gun slaying of an intelligence officer of the Urdaneta police station assigned to its office as liaison officer. The victim, SPO4 Anuario Concepcion, was shot and killed on October 6 by suspects in a red car along…
THE head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has called on the public to report sightings of ambulances that could be cases of misuse. PCSO Margarita Juico said the agency is also monitoring how ambulances they have donated to local government units (LGUs) are being used. Pangasinan received 18…
MANLELLUAG FOREST MANGATAREM–The Manlelluag Protected Area and Forest Reserve in this town is the only remaining virgin forest in Central Pangasinan, the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) reported. Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Raymundo Gayo said there has been no deforestation or illegal cutting of trees in…
CALASAIO—The municipal government of Calasiao is set to redesign its official corporate seal, which was last redesigned in 1989. Mayor Mark Roy Q. Macanlalay issued Executive Order No. 05 on October 8 “creating an ad hoc committee tasked to study, initiate, and supervise the redesigning of the official corporate seal…
THE 6th Sari-Sari Store Fair is set at the CSI Stadia in Dagupan on October 18 to 21 with the aim of stimulating the growth of sari-sari stores in the countryside, the people’s nearest and most convenient source of consumer goods. Guest speaker during the opening program on Oct. 18…
SOME 50,000 bangus floated dead in a fishkill that affected two fishponds in separate barangays on Thursday, the City Agriculture Office reported. City Agriculturist Emma Molina said the fishkill first occurred in a two-hectare pond in Barangay Tambac following the occurrence of neap tide caused by the changing face of…
THE National Food Authority (NFA)-Western Pangasinan is now ready for a massive palay buying operation for the bumper rice harvest of farmers this harvest season. Aside from accepting deliveries at the five NFA buying stations around Pangasinan, the agency is also deploying trucks to pick up the produce of individual…
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