AFTER THE PALAY IS GONE –- The rice farm in Aguilar town is left to dry after farmers completed the harvest. (Contributed by Art Valenzuela)
22 TOWNS, CITIES TO GO AFTER re-evaluating the conduct of the campaign against the illegal drug trade this year, twenty-five municipalities and a city have been confirmed to be drug-cleared by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO). According to P/Colonel Redrico A. Maranan,…
Alaminos City, 25 towns cleared by PDEA
WEEK’S UPDATE LINGAYEN–Anti-drug operatives seized one rifle grenade, a Cal. 38 revolver with six bullets and 11 sachets of shabu worth P15,000 from the house of a suspected drug pusher in Dagupan City following a raid in his house in the early morning of June 26. The raid on the house…
16 more arrested in anti-drug operations
SEPARATE OATHTAKING LINGAYEN—For the first time, the new members of the majority and minority groups of Sangguniang Panlalawigan have decided to take their oaths of office separately, an unprecedented arrangement The eight board members who constitute the majority took their oaths on June 24 before Regional Trial Court Judge Laarni…
Close collaboration among BMs doubted
AN organ transplantation expert of the Department of Health (DOH) is encouraging Pangasinenses to donate their organs after they pass away to give others a new lease on life. Dr. Francisco Sarmiento, program manager of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Program of DOH, who presided over the Advocacy Forum on Organ Donation…
Organ donation is lawful – DOH exec
AGULAR – We’ve heard of stories of cancer patients how they survived and triumphed in their journey. Here is 19-year-old Hanah Lou T. Abad of Niñoy, of this town, who was bullied all her school days, and finally triumphed. She stood tall before images of bullies in her mind when…
Bullied student graduates as magna cum laude
THE satellite unit of the Dagupan City Health Office in Bonuan Gueset is ready to serve the health needs of residents of barangays Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Boquig and Bonuan Binloc. The new center, funded by the city government and the Department of Health, will serve as an extension of the…
New health satellite office opens for Bonuan barangays
NEW DAGUPAN MAYOR – Sen. Cynthia Villar administers the mayor’s oath of office to Vice Mayor Brian Lim as the city’s new mayor before his mother, councilor -elect Celia Lim and sister Irene during the formal inauguration of the city’s officials at the Dagupan City Astrodome on June 22. (PUNCHphoto by…
NEW DAGUPAN MAYOR
LEPTOSPIROSIS finally claimed its first fatality in Dagupan this year, the City Health Office (CHO) reported. The city has so far recorded two leptospirosis cases from January to June this year. “The fatality is an adult woman, who was initially diagnosed with acute gastroenteritis,” said Dr. Ophelia Rivera, City Health…
Dagupan records 1 leptospirosis death
LINGAYEN–It was a wrong decision he made. This was the confession of outgoing Fifth District Board Member Clemente Arboleda Jr. when he delivered his valedictory address during the final session of the 9th Sangguniang Panlalawigan on June 24. Arboleda said he regretted not supporting then Governor Amado “Pogi” Espino and…