The Duterte administration’s policy contra-illegal gambling has won one battle: Meridien’s off-fronton jai-alai operations in Pangasinan have been stopped. Presiding Judge A. Florentino Dumlao Jr. of the Regional Trial Court Branch 42 in Dagupan City granted the prayer of petitioners for the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction against…
LINGAYEN— With the onset of monsoon rains and typhoons, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) has placed 16 towns and Alaminos City under its leptospirosis-watch. Data gathered by The PUNCH from PHO headed by Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, from January to Aug. 15 showed that these are in Mangaldan…
SURPRISE DRUG TESTING BINMALEY— Despite death threats for his unwavering support to President Duterte’s war on drugs, there was no stopping the town’s mayor from requiring municipal employees and barangay officials here to take the drug tests over a two-day period, Aug. 16 and 17. Municipal officials were surprised by…
Lingayen – If the Sangguniang Panlalawigan can have its way, it wants recently installed Officer-in-Charge P/Sr. Supt. Ronald Oliver Lee designated as the permanent provincial director of the Pangasinan Police. The resolution endorsing the appointment of Lee, authored by Board Member Raul Sison (Second District), was adopted during the Provincial…
DAGUPAN CITY—“Let us unite against drugs but let us offer an alternative to killing criminals.” This was reiterated by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, to priests, nuns and catechists in his archdiocese that recently underwent a formation seminar on the pastoral care of…
FIRST District Rep. Jesus ‘Boying’ Celeste challenged former Congressman and former Alaminos City Mayor Hernani ‘Nani’ Braganza to undergo a drug test including their immediate family members to prove to the public who among them are into illegal drugs. Mr. Celeste said he is ready to prove that the allegation…
The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office’s oversight committee on Project Double Barrel is set to reconvene to evaluate on who among the chiefs of police in the province whose performance have been below par. So far, only 11 have been named as new chiefs of police and a new provincial intelligence…
“THE war on drugs should not only be a war by the President or the PNP” This was how Fourth District Rep. Christopher “Toff” de Venecia felt about the ongoing war on drugs. “It should be a multi-sectoral battle that hinges on mutli-sectoral cooperation–from the barangay, the health sector, the…
DEATHS UNDER INVESTIGATION LINGAYEN—The police regional office has formed a unit group to conduct probes on suspected summary executions and alleged extra-judicial killings being linked to the government’s war on drugs. P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Lee, acting police provincial director, told local newsmen in a forum Thursday that shooting incidents perpetrated…
PANGASINAN State University is targeting to be ISO 9001:2015 certified SUC in the province this year to achieve its vision to be the ASEAN Premier State University in 2020 and make good on its commitment to institutionalize the establishment of Quality Management System in both the academic and support services….
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