LINGAYEN—With the start of the candidates’ registration period on April 14, 2018 for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections this May, the Philippine National Police and Commission on Elections have announced plans to set up joint checkpoints in the province. Police Superintendent Ronald Lee, police provincial director disclosed the coming…
ON MAY 14, a total of 1,797,052 registered voters are expected troop to Pangasinan polls to elect barangay officials. Up to 683,462 qualified youths will cast their votes in the Sangguniang Kabataan election. This was bared by the Commission on Elections’ provincial supervisor Marino Salas at the KBP Forum in…
9-MONTH SUSPENSION UPHELD LINGAYEN—The implementation of the decision of the Ombudsman suspending Dr. Dexter Buted and Marcelo Gutierrez, president and director, respectively, of the Pangasinan State University (PSU), for nine months without pay for oppression now appears certain after the Court of Appeals dismissed on March 27, 2018 the petition for review filed…
SUSPENSION STARTS APRIL 16 LINGAYEN—Dr. Dexter Buted last week bade goodbye to the staff and students of Pangasinan State University (PSU) as president. Buted signed off at a forum he called in anticipation of the PSU Board of Regents decision on April 16 to implement the Ombudsman decision suspending him…
REFORMED DRUG PERSONALITIES LINGAYEN— The Pangasinan Reformation Center (PRC), in San Vicente, Burgos town, was officially launched on April 10 with the completion of the training of the first batch of drug personalities under community-based rehabilitation programs (CBRP) or drug treatment. Twenty-eight drug personalities from Burgos town who surrendered and…
FISHERMAN’S KIDS’ SUMMER BREAK -– Unlike other children on summer school break frolicking everywhere, the children of one fisherman help pull in his fishing net, a fishing method locally known as ‘Kulokor’ along Lingayen Gulf in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
BEAT THE SUMMER HEAT — Residents and visitors find respite from the hot summer sun at the clear beach water on Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan recorded 18 measles cases in the year to April 9, a substantial decline of 71 percent from last year’s 62 cases, according to newly released data from the Provincial Health Office’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit. The rate of decline is better than the national average of about 60 percent…
LINGAYEN—Four persons drowned in separate incidents last week. According to the Pangasinan police, Salvador de Asis, 52, drowned in the Angalacan River in Mangaldan on April 8. His body was recovered only the following day. The police said the victim left home at 1:00 a.m. with his wife to report for work…
TWO persons involved in rain-soaked preparations for the Kalutan ed Bayambang celebration April 10 died from electrocution after accidentally touching live wires. SPO2 Simeon Dela Cruz, chief investigator at the Bayambang police station, said that Philip Aquino, 21, from Mangaldan, was electrocuted at around 4 p.m. while connecting a cable…
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