PANGASINAN SPARED LINGAYEN—Pangasinan was initially disappointed that the province was not chosen pilot area by the Department of Health for dengue vaccination but as it turned out it was a blessing in disguise. Pangasinan has been spared from the Dengvaxia vaccine scare because the province registered low dengue cases last…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan is counting its blessings today on learning about the national scare on Dengvaxia vaccine. The city council had passed a resolution early this year asking the Department of Health (DOH) to allocate Dengvaxia vaccines for the city but DOH did not act on the city’s…
DRUM & LYRE MAJORETTES GALORE – Pretty majorettes of the St. Adelaide School’s Drum and Lyre of Burgos town perform their choreographed number for the Drum and Lyre Competition at the Dagupan City plaza, one of the events of the City Fiesta. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
STREET dancing and drum and lyre competitions opened this year’s celebration of the Dagupan City Fiesta on the theme “Our City, Our Home, Our Pride…Beyond Platinum!” To usher in the Christmas season as well, the giant Christmas tree in front of the city museum on December 5 was also lit….
LINGAYEN — The probe of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on the alleged excessive charge of three doctors at the Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial (DDVMF) Hospital, a private hospital in Dagupan will shift next week to two government doctors who helped perform the surgical procedure on the injured hand of a…
WAR ON DRUGS LINGAYEN – The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) expressed confidence that the recent order of President Duterte to recall the Philippine National Police (PNP) back to the war on drugs will make the campaign to make Pangasinan drug-free easier. P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, PPPO’s Police Community Relations…
THE province remains free of insurgency activities despite reports of increased armed attacks in other parts of the country and threats of more by the New Peoples Army (NPA). However, notwithstanding the peaceful conditions in the province, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office remains on full alert status particularly after President…
POZORRUBIO—The Pozorrubio exit of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) was finally opened to motorists last December 6. Officials led by Public Works Sec. Mark Villar and Transportation Sec. Arthur Tugade Gov. Amado Espino III; Rep. Amado Espino Jr., Mark Gabriel Dumol, president of the Private Infra Development Corp. (PIDC), the…
2017 ECE BOARD EXAMS “TOUGH times never last but tough people do.” This was how the sixth top placer in the October 2017 Electronics Engineering (ECE) board examination from Colegio de Dagupan (CdD) summed up his experience when he received P75,000 cash gift from his alma mater. Ronnie Gee Alfonso,…
LINGAYEN –One week after exposing exorbitant fees charged by doctors in Dagupan City, Second District Board Member Raul Sison this time directed his tirade at a private hospital in Dagupan City for reportedly refusing to release the cadaver of a patient that died in the hospital to his family because…
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