Don’t shoot the messenger By Leonardo Micua THE manager of radio station Aksyon Radyo Dagupan, Violy Valdez, is in rage over the alleged bad-mouthing of one of her staff, Dante Cera, by the town mayor of Mangaldan, Marilyn Lambino. Dante got the goat of her honor when he read…
Once upon an island! By Jing Villamil IN these grim days of quaking bursting flooding crusting earth, of abusive corrupting power, of hunger and thirst and neglect and never-mind-them, of viruses and men gone deadly haywire . . . she had not forgotten the many a lifetime she had…
PATRIOTISM FIRST, FIRE PREVENTION SECOND – This clearly is the message being conveyed by the Panda Fire Volunteers of Dagupan City, composed mostly of Chinoy residents, when they joined the Fire Prevention Month observance with a fire truck parade around the city. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
IN CONSPIRACY WITH DENR? UNSCRUPULOUS persons have started to take claims over large tracts of public lands on both sides of the still uncompleted Daang Kalaikasan in Mangatarem. Mangatarem Mayor Ramil Ventenilla reported the obtaining situation in the area when he spoke before the Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
THE Bureau of Fire Protection (PFP) in Pangasinan revealed that while there were 85 fires in the first two months this year compared to 84 for the same period last year, there were lesser structural fires. F/Supt. Noel Gagalac, provincial fire marshal, told the KBP Forum on Thursday that the number…
PRE-FIRE PREVENTION MONTH TO say that the month of March is “Fire Prevention Month” already sounds satirical to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Dagupan City that has already responded to 10 grassfires and one residential fire incident in this city and other neighboring towns in the first two…
EFFORTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pangasinan to focus on high-value targets (HVT) have already resulted in the arrests of 20 known HVTs, and seizure of half-kilogram of shabu and more than five kilograms of marijuana from January to February alone. PDEA Pangasinan team leader Retchie Camacho…
AS of March 4, 2020, Ilocos Region remains free of COVID-19 cases after 13 persons earlier categorized as Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) and placed under isolation were eventually cleared when their laboratory tests proved negative. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, medical officer IV of the Department of Health in Region 1, told the…
EVEN as culling of African Swine Fever-infected hogs has slowed down in Pangasinan, the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) recommended the total lockdown of affected piggeries in towns/cities in order to protect the remaining hog population from getting infected by the disease. This was gleaned from a memo-report of Dr. Jovito…
IDEAL FOR VIEWDECK – Lingayen Mayor and chairman of the Provincial Advisory Council Leopoldo Bataoil gestures to the place as the ideal location for one of the view decks along Daang Kalikasan during a site inspection trip last week. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
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