ZERO-FIRE IN PANGASINAN URDANETA CITY—A record of sorts was established in Pangasinan when not a single house was set on fire by firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices during and after 2019 New Year revelry, according to the provincial fire marshal. F/Superintendent Eddie Jucutan attributed the positive development to the successful information…
ALAMINOS CITY—Employees of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources have been working overtime to enable a female blind rough-toothed dolphin that was stranded in the coastal water of Tobuan, Labrador in Dec. 22, to swim out to the sea on its own. In a Dec. 27 report to BFAR…
Stranded blind dolphin in BFAR custody
STUDENTS of Pangasinan do not know it yet but they are now being protected and stand to benefit from the Anti-Hazing law authored by Fourth District Christopher de Venecia. De Venecia sponsored House Bill No. 6573, a proposed act prohibiting hazing and regulating other forms of initiation rites of fraternities, sororities and…
Students now protected by De Venecia’s Anti-Hazing Law
NOT only police chiefs in the region have been reshuffled in their assignments but provincial election officers as well in preparation for the coming May elections. Lawyer Marino Salas who was provincial election supervisor (PES) of Pangasinan for a long time, has been transferred to Ilocos Sur. He was replaced…
Prov’l election supervisors also reshuffled
100 ISLANDS, TOP TOURIST DESTINATION ALAMINOS City Government boosted its coffers by P43,187, 062.19 sourced from the registration fee alone of the 547,490 tourist arrivals to the Hundred Islands in 2018. Mike Sison, city tourism officer, said most of the local tourist arrivals were from the cities of Alaminos, Urdaneta,…
Increased tourist arrivals boost Alaminos revenues
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS FOR their exemplary performance in various fields of service, the top-performing barangays of Dagupan City will receive P300,000 worth of project incentives from the Dagupan City government. The performance incentives for each barangay consist of items or equipment that they can use for disaster preparedness, according to Mayor…
Unliserbisyo barangays to receive P300K Disaster Preparedness projects
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS TOP CADAC PERFORMER – The Dagupan City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) earns the silver award during the Department of Interior and Local Government’s 1st National Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ADAC) Performance Awards ceremonies held at Tent City, Manila Hotel, Manila. For its relentless campaign against illegal drugs, the…
TOP CADAC PERFORMER
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS THE 2019 National Festival of Talents (NFOT) will be held in Dagupan City on January 29 to February 9 to be hosted by the Department of Education Region 1 and the City Schools Division Dagupan. The theme of the 12-day festival is “Celebrating Diversity through the Performance of Talents…
Dagupan to host 2019 National Festivals of Talents
URDANETA CITY–Two policemen were hospitalized when two groups of police officers in civilian clothes, suspicious of each other, had a shootout inside a resto bar in Barangay San Vicente here at about 8:30 p.m. on December 30. P/Sr. Superintendent Wilson Lopez, police provincial director, identified the wounded as P/Chief Inspector Napoleon…
2 policemen wounded in shootout inside bar
LINGAYEN – International Master (IM) Ronald Dableo from Manila bagged the open division championship title while Chester Neil Reyes from Bugallon topped the kiddies’ category in the 10th Amado Espino Open Chess Championship held at the Wellness Center within Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center (NRSCC) on December 29-30. The…




