From shabu to cocaine? By Leonardo Micua REMEMBER the time when several containers of shabu were washed ashore in Barangay Cato, Infanta and when lawmen investigated this, they found more containers loaded with high -grade shabu floating offshore? This happened during the incumbency of President Joseph Estrada and his chief…
FIRE PREVENTION MONTH – A resident helps put out the fire that left 4 families homeless at Bgy. Pogo Chico in Dagupan City on Tuesday noon. The fire occurred 3 days before the nation began observing the Fire Prevention Month (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
ONLY 488 SURRENDERED IN REGION CAMP BGEN OSCAR M FLORENDO—There are 21,257 firearms in Pangasinan whose licenses expired and have not been renewed being targeted by police regional office’s “Oplan Katok,” a door-to-door visit of houses of firearm holders by policemen. P/Brig. General Romulo E. Sapitula, PRO1 Regional Director, said…
FOUR persons were killed and three others were seriously injured when a motorized tricycle and a Toyota Hi-Ace van figured in a head-on collision along the Jose de Venecia Expressway Extension in Barangay Lucao, Dagupan City late afternoon on Sunday, February 24. The fatalities were the tricycle driver, Michael Reyes,…
MORE than 1,200 drug users and pushers in Dagupan who surrendered to be rehabilitated have since changed their lives under the Sagip User Rehabilitation and Empowerment (SURE) program implemented by the Dagupan City government since 2016. Eljohn Pangilinan, SURE focal person, said the surrenderers already graduated from the mandatory Community-based…
OPLAN BAKLAS — Personnel of the task force formed by the Commission on Elections, the Department of Public Works and Highways, Philippine National Police and Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), remove a dismantled billboard of a group of senators installed in an unauthorized area. (Photo by PIA/CGC)
38 CASES IN 2017 AN official of Department of Health (DOH) in Region 1 expressed alarm over the possible spread of the deadly Japanese Encephalitis disease that is caused by the bite of mosquitoes infected with the virus. John Lee Gacusan, program manager of the National Immunization Program of DOH Region…
PRELUDE TO SUMMER – A mother takes pictures of her wards playing with the waves by the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City before sundown. Soon the beach will be crowded with hundreds more each day as soon as summer breaks. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
LINGAYEN— The Pangasinan Reformation Center (PRC) built and managed by the provincial government in Burgos town has already helped in the rehabilitation of 138 drug users/pushers since it became operational in April 10 last year. PRC’s OIC-Administrator Dr. Eugenie Guiang said the reformed drug personalities from six localities in the…
BAYAMBANG—The first phase of the two-story municipal annex building here is set to be completed this month. According to Municipal Engineer Eddie Melicorio, the building with a bid price of P12-million stands on a 1,000 square-meter lot previously occupied by Digitel company whose usufruct contract has expired, will be completed on…
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