SIMBANG GABI ON CHRISTMAS EVE – It was a calm evening yet the Catholic faithful were in festive mood inside and around the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PROVINCE IS 100% CLEAR THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported it has completed the drug clearing of the 1,271 previously drug-affected barangays in the province after the drug-clearing operation in Barangay Tandoc in San Carlos City, Wednesday, December 27, with the arrest of a high value target. P/Chief Inspector…
VICTIM’S HAND AMPUTATED LINGAYEN—The Provincial Health Office (PHO) again missed its target of zero firecracker injuries this year when three persons were already reported injured by firecracker explosions in separate areas since Christmas Eve. A report reaching The PUNCH showed that one of those injured already had one of his…
ORDER OF THE DAY P/CHIEF Superintendent Romulo Sapitula, police regional office 1 director, has ordered policemen in Pangasinan to go out in the field and “confiscate all banned fireworks and firecrackers!” He gave the order Thursday in his talk to police officers and men of Dagupan City during his field…
R.A.7183 P PNP together and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) are on full alert to safeguard welfare of the public by strictly enforcing the law regulating the manufacture, selling and use of firecrackers in welcoming 2018. P/ Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, police community relations chief of the Pangasinan Police…
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas told his flock during the Christmas eve Eucharistic Mass at the Stadia, CSI complex in Dagupan City not to allow intimacy with their loved ones substituted by virtual presence. “Dati dadalawin mo sa bahay pag Pasko, and then Christmas card na lang, and then…
TWO policemen were confined at Nazareth Hospital here after the Mahindra mobile patrol car they rode in was bumped by an Isuzu Elf truck on Dec. 26 along Aquino St., Poblacion in Mangaldan. SPO4 Angelito Jimenez and PO1 Mary Ann Lomibao were visited by Police Regional Director, Chief Supt. Romulo…
DR. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, has asked the police to watch out for what she called ” firecracker black market” that sell the banned powerful firecrackers in remote villages away from their prying eyes. De Guzman made the call as she revealed that most injuries on…
CALESA RIDE IN DAGUPAN IS MORE FUN – A family experiences the joyride that families of the old relished on a cold night in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TODAY’S centenarians are certainly the luckiest bunch. Past generations’ centenarians never had the attention and care from government like they do today. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)- Field Office 1 reported that 437 centenarians in the region received P100,000 cash in financial gift this year. That’s P43.7…
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