10 MORE TO GO NINE more barangays were declared by the city police here Thursday as drug-free, raising the number of drug-free barangays in Dagupan to 21. P/Supt. Neil Miro, acting-police chief, said this brought to 67.6 percent of the total 31 barangays in the city already cleared. In a ceremony…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged all local government units to organize Local Aids Councils to raise awareness and educate individuals to avoid Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) infection. In an interview, Board Member Raul Sison, author of the resolution, said, there must be local councils in each town and…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez has confirmed that some rogue owners of illegal fish pens have began employing deceptive means in order to be able to continue their illegal operations amid the city government’s current campaign to rid the city’s rivers and tributaries of illegal fish pen operations. In a talk to…
PRISON’S WASTES TO THE BEACH — What appears to be a tributary is actually the canal dug from the Dagupan BJMP District Jail to direct the flow of liquefied human wastes being dumped to the Tondaligan Beach. The Jail facility is about 500 meters away from the City Environment and Natural…
A BOON, NOT A BANE THE National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development Center (NIFTDC) has cautioned fish farmers about eliminating the blue mussels (Mytella charruana) that have proliferated in the rivers of Dagupan not only because this is an edible specie of shellfish that is good for food not only for humans…
DAGUPAN CITY—Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has called on his parishioners to join in prayer and attend a protest rally to resist the threat of the death penalty in the country. “The death penalty bill is being pushed for approval in Congress before Christmas. What a tragedy if this would be…
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS GALORE — Tayug residents troop to the town plaza nightly to be entertained by the myriad of Christmas lights attached to various images of Santa Claus’s sleigh ride to Disney Castle to Christmas trees. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
POZORRUBIO — SM Foundation turned over its 32nd newly refurbished and renovated barangay health center to Pozorrubio on Dec. 7 as its early Christmas gift of wellness to mothers and children here. The newly renovated and refurbished barangay health center now has complete facilities for pre to post-natal care as well as…
TO DISCIPLINE MOTORISTS TWENTY-one Public Order and Safety Office traffic enforcers of Dagupan were given an orientation in traffic enforcement from the the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Region 1 led by Regional Director Teofilo Guadiz Jr. The seminar was conducted upon the request of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez in…
A MEMBER of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, also a relative of controversial Ronnie Dayan of Urbiztondo, posed mixed questions particularly about the propriety of the policy of government in securing the latter even as he doubted if his relative can be fully secured. “Who is Ronnie Dayan for government to spend…
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