How Manaoag 5 won the hard way By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE second edition of the Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament reeled off last November 18 at Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center (NRSCC) in Lingayen. As expected, a huge throng attended the opening rite with provincial and municipal…
Sports Eye
OVERCHARGING AND MOONLIGHTING DOCTORS – Second District Board Member Raul Sison has an expose involving some doctors and a popular hospital in Dagupan City. He phoned me in to relay his concern about a licensed sentensyador (judge in a cockfight) whose right wrist was injured by a tari and needed…
Random Thoughts
CHRISTMAS RUSH AT THE CAPITOL –Workers from the provincial engineering office rush to install a 50-foot Christmas tree in front of the provincial capitol building in Lingayen in time for the lighting ceremony for the Yuletide season. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
CHRISTMAS RUSH AT THE CAPITOL
PPPO DECLARED 1,254 DRUG-FREE WHILE the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has already declared 1,255 barangays in Pangasinan as drug-cleared, records, however, of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) regional office, shows that only 442 barangays of the total 1,254 drug-affected were officially validated as drug-free by the regional oversight committee….
Only 442 barangays validated by PDEA
PNP OPLANS ‘BOGA’, ‘SITA’, ‘BAKAL’ AN intensive campaign against criminality in the province that was implemented to support the war on drugs has resulted in the confiscation of 10,457 unlicensed firearms and filing of charges against gun owners. P/ Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, public information officer of Pangasinan Police Provincial…
Anti-criminality campaign nets 10K firearms, 442 arrests
WAR ON DRUGS SCORE CARD THE municipality of Burgos in the First District was finally validated as a drug-free community, the 11th in Pangasinan, last Thursday, Nov. 22. This was confirmed by the oversight committee composed of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of Health (DOH),…
PDEA clears Burgos
2018 HIGHER BY 9% LINGAYEN – After holding an executive session to hear the budget proposal of Office of the Provincial Veterinarian last Nov. 20, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) is set to approve the 2018 provincial government’s P3.75 billion budget. The annual budget proposed by the office of Gov. Amado…
Capitol submits P3.75-B annual budget
THE neoclassical 18th century piano that Leonor Bauson Rivera played on is finally back in Dagupan and now under the care of the Arts and Culture Office at the city museum. On Mayor Belen T. Fernandez’s directive, Councilor Jeslito Seen, chairman of Culture and Arts Committee of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) and Culture and Arts officer…
Piano played on by Leonor Rivera finally in Dagupan
RED WEDNESDAY – Nuns and parishioners of Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese light candles inside the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City in observance of the Red Wednesday, a day to support persecuted Christians worldwide. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
