DAGUPAN City’s open dumpsite is now undergoing rehabilitation in compliance with Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.” Waste Management chief Ronaldo De Guzman told the public hearing conducted by the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, chaired by Councilor Jeslito Seen, last…
LONG-TERM SOLUTION AMID the garbage crisis presently facing the city of Dagupan since the closure of the open dumpsite, a small light appears at the end of the tunnel – the city’s planned waste-to-energy facility may soon become a reality. City Legal Officer Victoria Cabrera told the consultative meeting convened…
UNKNOWN to many, there is an increasing number of children in conflict with law and sexually-abused children in the province. The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office’s records show there are 374 accommodated cases of children in conflict with the law and abused victims, 242 of which are female and…
CALASIAO–A woman tagged as a shabu queen and a pimp was gunned down on Feb. 5 along Barangay Buenlag here. The victim identified as Rescila Orienza, 41, native of Arayat, Pampanga who rented a house in RTM Subdivision, Barangay Buenlag here, was shot dead by unidentified suspects on board a white…
TALKING ABOUT GARBAGE — Members of the Dagupan City Sangguniang Panlungsod, barangay officials and stakeholders listen to Engr. Carlito Dion, former barangay chairman of Bued, Calasiao during the public hearing and consultative meeting on short term solution to the garbage crisis looming in the city. (Punchphoto by Leonardo Micua)
THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) expressed anew its deep concern over the deaths and killings in the campaign against prohibited drugs. “It is good to remove the drug problem, but to kill in order to achieve this is also wrong,” the pastoral letter said that was read…
AN official of the National Police Commission (Napolcom) said there are fewer policemen in Region I charged administratively since the assumption of President Rodrigo Duterte. Lawyer Edwin Mapili, Pangasinan’s Napolcom director and concurrently assistant director of Region 1, said in 2016, there were 37 administrative cases tried. In 2015, there…
THE Pangasinan Provincial Health Office (PHO) expressed serious alarm not only over the rising cases of teenage pregnancy in the province but of higher incidence of maternal deaths in the province. PHO’S data shows that there were 2,873 reported cases of teenage pregnancy, most of them are aged 14 to…
URDANETA PNP’S MISSING 41 GUNS THE janitor at the Urdaneta City Police Station earlier identified as one of the suspects behind the disappearance of 41 handguns from the station’s armory is now in police custody after a warrant of arrest was issued against him. P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Lee, acting provincial…
SPREADING, reporting and publishing of fake news about persons and events in Dagupan City in the social media, television, radio and print, will soon be penalized if the draft ordinance filed last week is passed. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo filed a draft ordinance in the city council seeking to impose penalty…
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