RESTORATION, NOT DEMOLITION – The sight of the the MacArthur Bldg (WCES Home Economics Bldg) stripped of old wooden floors, walls, and roof that caused an uproar among Dagupan netizens. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ENGR. Tatum Grace Manzano, division engineer of DepEd Dagupan told The PUNCH in an interview that it is “restoration, not demolition” that’s being done on the Mac Arthur Building (West Central Elementary School I Home Economics (HE) Building). Manzano admitted that there is a removal of old materials going…
DepEd: It’s Restoration, not demolition, of MacArthur Bldg.
SOON after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that it was African Swine Fever (ASF) that caused the sudden high swine mortality in Rizal and Bulacan provinces, Gov. Amado Espino III issued an executive order implementing a temporary total ban on the entry of all live swine into the province. This…
Temporary total ban on live pigs to Pangasinan in effect
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development DSWD) Field Office 1 delisted 24,332 households in Pangasinan, or 51% of the 47,078 households delisted in the region from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), as of August 2019. This was gleaned from the report that showed Pangasinan, being the largest number…
4Ps delist 24,332 households
WHEN four of the country’s bishops received the news about their inclusion as respondents in the case of sedition and other crimes filed by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Philippine National Police before the Department of Justice, their first response was prayer. In their fraternal message dated Sept. 7, 2019…
Bishops will comply with law – Villegas
LOVE conquers all that even cervical cancer stage 4 that afflicts a teacher did not stop her fiancé from marrying her. Rosanna Kim Bautista, 28, a registered nurse but works as a public school teacher in Calasiao, Pangasinan did not let her pain get in the way to cherish the…
Cancer-stricken teacher marries boyfriend in hospital chapel
EIGHT former inmates at the New Bilibid Prison who were released due to good conduct time allowance (GCTA) law have surrendered to Pangasinan Police. According to P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, the eight GCTA grantees voluntarily surrendered to various police stations were: 1) Dindo Liquiran y Penuliar, Poblacion East Calasiao…
Eight GCTA beneficiaries surrender, 40 more sought
ORIGINAL H.E. BLDG in 2017 – PUNCH’s photojournalist took this picture two years ago of the Home Economics Bldg. shortly after it was declared a part of Dagupan City’s cultural heritage. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ORIGINAL H.E. BLDG in 2017
UPROAR OVER MACARTHUR BLDG FOURTH District Rep. Christopher de Venecia assured close monitoring of the Mac Arthur Building even as he vowed to use his oversight function as a congressman in the conduct of a hearing, in aid of legislation, to ensure proper implementation of the law directing the restoration…
De Venecia: I’ll use oversight function over restoration
SAN CARLOS CITY—The Espino family hailed the heroism displayed by Agapito Cuison, the driver of the Toyota Land Cruiser that former Governor Amado Espino Jr. was riding, when he continued driving the SUV unmindful of the bullet wounds he sustained until he reached the Blessed Family Hospital so the Espino…