BEST FESTIVAL OF THE NORTH — Tribu Pandan (Pandan Festival) dancers, adjudged this year’s the best festival, perform along Perez Blvd during the Festivals of the North parade, a major highlight of the Bangus Festival 2017. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FESTIVALS OF THE NORTH THE Pandan Festival of Mapandan town, made an impressive comeback appearance at the Festivals of the North (FON) of the ongoing 2017 Dagupan Bangus by emerging the champion anew. Pandan Festival bagged the P400,000 grand prize by edging out the Bangus Festival in the colorful 2017…
LINGAYEN—The construction of the first drug rehabilitation center of the provincial government located in Barangay San Vicente, Burgos town is now 60 percent complete, according to Gov. Amado Espino III. Espino said if construction of the center will not be hampered by bad weather, the target is to make the rehab…
FREAK ACCIDENT – The unidentified motorcycle rider, reportedly a jueteng cabo, suffers a tragic death when an electric post fell on him as he coasted along Barangay Gabon in Calasiao town last Thursday, May 4. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
A community-based rehabilitation program (CBRP) will soon be implemented in place in Dagupan for the over 1,200 self-confessed drug personalities who surrendered under the Masa Masid program of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). This was bared by DILG City Director Rhoderick Dawis who said those who surrendered…
PANGASINAN’S present and prospective overseas workers can look forward to seamless services for their benefit once the call for the establishment of a department that will cater exclusively to the needs of overseas workers. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano recently filed Senate Bill No. 1435 calling for the establishment of the Department…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in Pangasinan surpassed its target with more than 87,000 new registrants for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. Lawyer Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor of Pangasinan, said the 44 towns and four cities in Pangasinan had 42,174 new SK (15 -17 years old…
INFANTA—A twin siblings vacationing with their relatives drowned along the Nayom River in Sitio Dusok, Barangay Nayom in Infanta at 3:00 p.m. of April 30, an incident that devastated their family from Iloilo province. The victims were identified by the police as Rico Candado and his brother Rey, both 16…
BOLINAO — Two persons died in separate drowning incidents in Bolinao and Pozorrubio towns on April 30. Joel Solon, 49, employee of Cosmo Fortune Corp. based in Taguig City, who drowned at the coastal water of Barangay Patar, Bolinao, was declared dead on arrival at Rillera Medical Hospital in Bolinao…
THE road widening projects in central Pangasinan are affected not only by decades-old trees that are within the roads’ right of way but by electric posts as well. In central Pagansinan, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has requested for the transfer of the electric posts of Central…
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