FIFTH District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. is still not ready to accept the 90-day prevention order imposed on him by the Sandiganbayan in connection with the graft charge filed against him relative to the alleged black sand mining in the Lingayen Beach. Congressman Espino deemed it better to bring the…
LINGAYEN–The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) maintained that no drug laboratory exists in any place in Region 1 but called on residents to maintain their vigilance. PDEA Regional Director Jeoffrey Tacio revealed that most drugs filtering into the region are coming from the National Capital Region (NCR), Central Luzon and Region…
IMPACT SOURCING IN DAGUPAN – City Administrator Farah Decano welcomes the officials of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and participants in the two-day Rural Impact Sourcing Forum and Workshop for Grade 9 students last September 16-17. The workshop was organized by the DICT in partnership with Dagupan…
NO CONFISCATION OF LICENSE POLICY ANOTHER innovation to improve traffic in Dagupan City has been introduced – a “no confiscation of driver’s license of erring motorists” rule is now being implemented by the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) and City Action Service Team (CAST). Carlito Ocampo, now the city’s…
STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY ELEMENTS of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Regional Public Safety Battalion in Pangasinan, courtesy of the State of National Emergency, will only assist the police in conducting checkpoint operations to help neutralize terroristic activities and not for anti-drug operations. This was clarified by…
ONLY A SUGGESTED ORDINANCE — Pedestrians walk on the street obstructing flow of traffic while risking to be hit by motorists because the sidewalk across the Region 1 Medical Center on Arellano St. in Dagupan City is fully occupied by stalls of vendors. The inset picture shows a signboard posted by city hall…
IN an effort to continue to improve the flow of traffic in Dagupan City, another experiment is in the offing. The Public Order and Safety Office, headed by Carlito Ocampo, said it will propose the designation of loading and unloading areas for jeepneys and buses for specific destinations. Ocampo said…
ALARMED by increasing number of dengue and leptospirosis cases in Dagupan City, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution directing the City Health Office (CHO) to conduct regular monitoring in the barangays. Councilor Dennis C. Canto, chairman on the committee on health, called the attention of the city government over…
THE Department of Public Works and Highways said the drainage system and slope protection projects of the government, once completed, will help ease the perennial flood problem in Dagupan City. Bernard Caronongan, information officer of DPWH’s Second Engineering District which covers Dagupan City, said three drainage and slope/bank protection projects are…
LINGAYEN – The provincial government is set to pilot its own environmental project, exchanging collected waste materials for school supplies. Gov. Amado Espino III said a truckload of school supplies and personal hygiene materials from the provincial government will soon visit schools to exchange these for plastic bottles and other…
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