MANAOAG — “Aries was the best gift God has given me and the country.” The was how Katrina Tamondong, wife of Police Officer 2 Aries Tamondong of the Regional Public Safety Battalion of Region 1 (RPSB1), who hailed from Barangay Cabanbanan, Manaoag town, accepted the fate of her husband who…
NIGHT RIVER CROSSING – The team of rescuers participating in the Red Alert Emergency Expo 2017 may appear to be playing a tough tug-of-war but are in fact hard put at simulating an evening river crossing rescue on daytime and on land last July 29 in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PLANNED CITY HALL TRANSFER THERE is no legal impediment seen by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in the planned transfer of the Dagupan City Hall to a 1.2- hectare land being donated by the brother of Mayor Belen Fernandez. This was contained in the legal opinion (No. 15, Series…
NO VIOLATION OF ANTI-GRAFT THE Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed for lack of probable cause and substantial evidence the complaints filed against Mayor Belen Fernandez and four other city officials by two contractors who charged that the city government refused to pay contracts entered into with former Mayor Benjamin…
MORE DEATHS REPORTED THE Provincial Health Office expressed alarm over increasing cases of dengue in the province, and seven have died so far. Dr. Ana de Guzman, provincial health officer said, there are now 1,280 newly recorded cases of dengue, representing a 20% increase from the 1,251 dengue cases last…
GOING, GOING, GONE – The billboard informing landowners along the De Venecia Highway in Barangay Pantal of the new deadline set for submitting offers to donate their land is largely ignored by passing Dagupan residents and motorists. The deadline is due to lapse on August 7 and still no formal offer has…
SAN NICOLAS — The clash between government troops and the New People’s Army (NPA) elements here last week was a temporary setback for the townsfolk but it’s business as usual here, the mayor said. Mayor Rebecca Saldivar made the announcement four days after the incident to assure her town mates that…
ANOTHER PANGASINAN HERO SAN NICOLAS – While video footages of the terror that the Maute group wreaked over Marawi City continue to alarm Filipinos, Pangasinenses were stunned to learn of the firefight in their own province between the police and the members of the New Peoples Army in this town last…
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 1 has assured the Dagupan City government that the dredging of the city’s Pantal River will continue for another year. The assurance was made by DPWH Region 1 EMD Office headed by Engineer Dejosis Domagas and Engineer Jaime Silen when they…
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan schools have responded positively to the Department of Education’s Project Bridgada Marawi which seeks to rehabilitate and clean the premises of damaged school buildings in Marawi City as a result of the fighting between government forces and Maute terrorists that is still going on in that city. Education Assistant Secretary Tomasino Umali confirmed…
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