NO approval yet has been handed down by the Department of Education (DepEd) on the proposed transfer of students of the Juan P. Guadiz Elementary School but the administration of Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim is already creeping its way into the property that it plans to use for a controversial…
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION THE Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan celebrated its golden anniversary on February 16 with a mass at the Cathedral of St. John The Evangelist in Dagupan presided by the Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto. About 50 archbishops and bishops of the Philippines attended the event, which…
Father Soc, Papal Nuncio trace archdiocese history
MAJOR DRUG BUST IN DAGUPAN A RAID in a Muslim community in Pag-asa Village, Barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan city Friday yielded 215 grams of suspected shabu estimated to fetch about P1 million in the streets that led to the arrest of 17 suspected drug dealers. The raid was conducted…
17 suspects arrested, P1-M worth of shabu seized
READY TO FIGHT—The Region 1 contingent marches with gusto during the parade of athletes at the opening ceremonies of the 2013 PRISAA National Collegiate Games at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen on February 11, 2013. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
READY TO FIGHT
RETIRED Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, giving his piece on the much talked about resignation of the Pope, cited Code of Canon Law: 401 paragraphs 1 and 2 on the matter of resignation of priests. “Just for the record and in order to avoid unnecessary questions as well as irrelevant speculations,…
Cruz explains Pope’s resignation
LINGAYEN—The Police Provincial Office is reinvestigating so-called “cold cases” in Pangasinan, starting with the unsolved crimes in Bolinao and Rosales where most of the shooting incidents were recorded over the last decade. The new initiative is part of the PPO’s program to address the province’s inclusion as an “area of…
Police pursues “cold” cases
YOUNG JOURNALISTS—More than 4,600 student-writers from 13 school divisions in Region 1 gather for the Regional Schools Press Conference held in Urdaneta City from Feb. 13-15. One of the speakers during the event was Venus Hortaleza-Sarmiento (left) of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) who delivered a lecture on news writing….
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ALAMINOS CITY—The Shiraki Memorial Foundation of Hawaii (SMFH), led by its president, Stanley Togikawa, vowed to provide equipment and supplies to the almost completed Hundred Islands Medical Services Complex (HIMSC). Tokigawa and his wife Joan were here last February 12 to formally turn over the medical equipment, supplies and hospital…
Foundation vows more assistance to hospital
LINGAYEN—The Mayor Julian Resuello (MJVR) Dialysis Training Center at the province-run Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City was awarded by the Renal Nurses Association of the Philippines (RENAP) as 3rd Best Dialysis Training Center in the country. “The recognition given by RENAP President Raquel Z. Tejada on January…
PPH’s dialysis center is 3rd best in PHL
THE Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) issued last week the results of the December 2012 Nursing Licensure Exam (NLW) wherein only 23 percent or 402 out of the total 1,743 examinees in Dagupan passed. Overall, there were 16,908 passers out of 49,066 examiness, or a passing rate of 34 percent. The…