TIMELY BONUS. Congratulations to the deserving employees of the city government whom the city will honor with a milestone anniversary bonus in the amount of P7,000. The bonus could not have come at a better time than next month, just in time for the opening of classes on June 1. It…
CAMPAIGN SHIFTS TO HIGH GEAR LINGAYEN — Lawmen scored big anew in the campaign against illegal drugs last week when four persons in the middle of a sniffing session were arrested in Binmaley while a government employee was arrested in Natividad in a buy-bust operation. Combined agents of the police and…
TRAFFIC STOPPER — Jeepneys and tricycles that ply Dagupan City’s streets regularly were everywhere last Sunday noon except on the streets for the duration of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. The drivers parked their units where they could watch the free “pay-per-view” coverage of the bout like the free showing on the…
LINGAYEN—After being appraised of the reported increase in deaths by rabies during the first quarter, the provincial board adopted a resolution seeking to strengthen the campaign against rabies in the province. During its May 4 regular session, the Board approved provincial resolution no. 1319-2015 “urging all local chief executives to…
ANOTHER FIRST FOR DAGUPAN AFTER the stringent austerity measures adopted by the Fernandez administration in 2013 to cover budget deficit left by the Lim administration, the Dagupan City government finally reported an unprecedented P53 million-budget surplus in 2014. According to City Budget Officer Luz De Guzman, the surplus was made…
K to 12’s SHS IMPLEMENTATION “NEVER fear” was the message of Department of Education Secretaty Armin Luistro to participants that attended the National Senior High School (SHS) Summit sponsored by the Department of Education and the Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID) at Diamond Hotel in Manila last week. Imelda Gonzales,…
LINGAYEN— What is it about schools that prompted a series of burglary in 23 schools this year alone? The cases of robberies victimizing public schools so alarmed the province’s police director that he directed the police chiefs in the province to solve the cases. P/Sr. Supt. Reynaldo Biay, officer-in-charge at…
CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY DAGUPAN CITY was adjudged among the top 3 national finalists for the 2014 Presidential Award for Most Child-Friendly Cities under the independent component city category. Other contenders were Santiago City and Cotabato City. Santiago City won the award.
PORTABLE BAMBOO BEDS — Seeing men selling bamboo beds on their backs is no longer a familiar sight on the highways these days so PUNCH lensman Willie Lomibao caught up with them, he saw the situation differently through his lens: “Two men on a long hike with their portable beds…
LINGAYEN—The policeman who figured in a shooting rage that killed four persons and wounded three others, most of them teachers, on Sept. 1 last year inside the Pangasinan National High School (PNHS) here remains in prison at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) while trial of his cases is going on. P/Sr….
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