HAZARDOUS STREET BARRICADES. Recently, a concerned citizen informed The PUNCH of the dangers posed by the steel barricades in Asingan, “unmanned even at night, obstructing traffic and causing accidents.” It will be recalled that DPWH Sec. Rogelio Singson issued Department Order No. 29 directing all DPWH field officials to strictly…
ANTI-ILLEGAL DRUGS WAR LINGAYEN—The provincial campaign contra illegal drugs shifts to high gear after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency reported that shabu now sells the lowest in Pangasinan compared to other provinces in the region. “We really have a big problem,” Gov. Amado Espino Jr. intoned during the joint Provincial Peace…
IN MOURNING — Senior officers at the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office place a black cloth on a police badge marker situated at the entrance of the police provincial office symbolic of the state of mourning in all police stations in the province over the massacre of 44 PNP-Special Action Forces…
MOURNING FOR FALLEN PNP-SAF MEMBERS MEMBERS of the Dagupan City and Pozorrubio police stations have expressed their mourning for their fallen comrades, particularly for the two Special Action Forces (SAF) members from Pangasinan.
LINGAYEN– The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) ordered on Monday (January 26) that the Philippine flag at the their stations be flown on half mast, following the massacre of about 50 Special Action Force (SAF) members in an encounter with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)….
ABOUT PANGASINAN’S LATEST HEROES SAN NICOLAS—The widow of one of two slain members of Special Action Forces (SAF) from Pangasinan who was among those killed in the bloody operation in Maguindanao Sunday wants justice for her husband. Miya Mejia, wife of Police Officer 2 Ephraim Mejia of Barangay Caloocan this town, both…
THE Dagupan City sanggunian finally approved the commercial operation of the ” Island Tours” developed and organized by Mayor Belen Fernandez to help boost the city’s tourism industry. The ordinance passed during its regular session last Tuesday on motion of Councilor Karlos Reyna, set the terms for the operation and management of the “Island Tours”…
TO THE RESCUE — Personnel of Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Dagupan City carry a wounded dolphin to a water tank in preparation for treatment prior to subsequent release to the sea. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
SOMEONE tried to kill and butcher the dolphins that were sighted off the Lingayen Gulf. But who? This question arose after 20 wounded dolphins were found beached in several areas along the shoreline of Lingayen to Aringay in La Union. Ten eventually died from their wounds believed to have been…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS FOUR BEACHED DOLPHINS RELEASED – Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and City Agriculturist Emma Molina look into the condition of four spinner dolphins that beached in Barangay Pugaro around midnight of January 27. Two of the dolphins with minor injuries were later released after being given antibiotic shot by…
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