THE Pangasinan Police will deploy 95 percent of the policemen on the streets and cemeteries during the Undas, according to Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, chief of the Police Community Relations (PCR). He said the police will be on high alert when families troop to the cemeteries on the eve…
TO PROTECT DAGUPAN FROM FLOODING DAGUPAN City Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo asked the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to replace and reformat its plans for dikes since most of the existing dikes in Dagupan are of the Gabion-type and which are lower in elevation than the level of…
SISON—After 57 years, this town will finally have its new three-story municipal hall. Mayor Danilo Uy said the construction started three months ago but monsoon rains and super Typhoon Ompong delayed the completion, instead it is expected to be completed in December this year. Uy said the project costs only…
MANGATAREM— The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) released emergency cash assistance to some 1,314 families in this town and another 644 in Calasiao who were affected by monsoon rains and Typhoon Ompong to help them cope with their difficulties. Senator Richard Gordon, also PRC chairman, said the P3,000 each given to…
TWO students of the Calasiao Comprehensive National High School were hurt when the tricycle they were riding crashed into a concrete post in Barangay Tebeng midnight of Oct. 24. The victims, Gerald C. Abulencia and Manuel Kyle C. Abulencia, 14, were rushed to the Region 1 Medical Center by a rescue team from…
MOTIVATED TO PLANT—A rice farmer in Binmaley starts planting rice seedlings for the next crop season anticipating better prices again for his next harvest. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE Region 1 Medical Center will have two more high-rise buildings in addition to the recently inaugurated five-storey Outpatient, Training and Eye Center to serve the growing numbers and needs of patients. This was revealed by Dr. Roland Mejia, R1MC chief, who said the two new buildings to rise are…
MARKET STALLHOLDERS’ UNPAID RENTALS DAGUPAN City’s Sangguniang Panlungsod is set to pass an ordinance waiving penalties of market rental fees in public markets imposed on stallholders whose businesses were affected during the extreme flooding in the city caused by days of monsoon rains and Typhoon “Ompong” from July to early…
HUNDREDS of young men and women are taking the qualifying entrance exam today, October 28, for a chance to be accepted at the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), and become a police officer after four years. P/Sr Superintendent Wilson Lopez, Pangasainan Police Provincial Director who belongs to PNPA Class of…
SOME 2,000 students attended the 4th ICT Congress/Seminar organized by the College of Information and Computing Studies (CICS) of Lyceum Northwestern University that sought to create further awareness towards advancement in information and communication technologies. Held on Oct. 22 at the Salvador T. Duque Fieldhouse of LNU on the theme: “Improving Awareness…
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