ATONEMENT — Volunteers, mostly self-confessed drug users who surrendered to the to police, deliver packs of cement and hollow blocks on their shoulders in an act of atonement to the peak of the Pilgrims Island in Hundred Islands where a 56-ft statue of Christ the Savior stands. (Punchphoto by Willie…
IT’S ABOUT LAND-GRABBING SPECULATIONS about the sudden transfer of assignment of Dagupan police chief P/Superintendent Neil Miro to Urdaneta City were rife initially until Miro himself stated the reasons behind his immediate relief. In a radio interview by broadcaster Orly Navarro, last Saturday, Miro revealed his sudden and immediate relief…
THE Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) has a new officer-in-charge – P/Supt. Franklin Ortiz – as chief of police, vice P/Supt. Neil Miro who was re-assigned as chief of police of Urdaneta City. Ortiz, formerly with PNP’s Special Action Force (SAF), was born in Itogon, Benguet although his parents are…
THIS year’s Bangus Festival will officially start today, April 16, in a fun-filled ceremony at the Tondaligan Blue Beach. Epee R. Rafanan, 2017 Bangus Festival executive chairman, said Mayor Belen T. Fernandez will declare the formal start of the 2017 Bangus Festival with the ‘Bangus Flash Parade’ early morning along the…
LINGAYEN– This is bad news again to the shellfish farmers of Bolinao and Anda towns. The Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has issued a public advisory confirming that the shellfishes from Bolinao and Anda are already contaminated by the deadly red tide organism. The Shellfish Advisory No. 17, series…
VACATIONING families who are traveling to and from Pangasinan can be assured of 24/7 police and medical emergency assistance this summer. The Police Provincial Office (PPPO) and Pangasinan’s Provincial Disaster Risk and Reduction and Management office (PDRRMO) have began deploying personnel along the province’s main highways and in popular tourist…
BLESS MY PALM – The Catholic laity who attended the Palm Sunday mass gather near the altar of St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City for the ritual blessing of the palm by Archbishop Socrates Villegas after the celebration of the Holy Mass. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THOUSANDS of devotees began crowding Manaoag, acknowledged to be the biggest pilgrimage center in the Philippines, since Maundy Thursday with the crowd swelling to up to one million through Easter Sunday. The center of devotion was the Basilica Minore of Lady of Manaoag atop a hill where the ivory image of…
GOV’T IS GAINING IN WAR ON DRUGS THE unrelenting campaign against illegal drugs has already succeeded, resulted not only in constricting the supply of shabu in the province but in transforming villages. This is the determination of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office noting that most operations have resulted in confiscation of…
“I HOPE to make the Department of Justice (DOJ) “the bastion of hope”, especially “for the lost, the least and the last.” This was the message conveyed by DOJ Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre before the prosecutors in Region 1 in a meeting when he was in Dagupan on April 10 as…
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