LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the medical frontliners and health workers attending to COVID-19 patients are “the faces of Jesus”. In a message on March 26 on the Facebook page of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan., Villegas wrote, “You are taking care of God. We cannot pay back your love and…
A MAGNITUDE 4.3 earthquake hit Agno town on March 24 Tuesday, 4:23 a.m., but no damage to person and property was reported by the Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office. PDRRMO’s early warning division head Shallom Balolong said the earthquake was tectonic and not inland but part of…
LINGAYEN Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil placed its Barangay Libsong West under Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine (EECQ) following the death of a Patient Under Investigation (PUI) from that village on March 25 at the Region1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City. Bataoil issued Executive Order No. 26 Series of 2020 on March 25…
TO ease the minds of two residents of Malasiqui town being treated in a hospital, the town’s government moved to take over usual household chores during their confinement. Mayor Noel Anthony Geslani said in an advisory on March 24 tasked barangay officials where the two live to do the errands…
DOWNTOWN STREET AS PALAY DRYER – With no vehicles plying the once busy street, an enterprising farmer freely uses the street to dry his palay harvest with no one accosting him for violating the quarantine protocol. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
DOCTORS in Pangasinan advise patients seeking medical help to be true to themselves and must tell the truth during interviews. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia of the Region I Medical Center (R1MC) said those who manifest symptoms of COVID-19 must be honest and to tell the truth of what they are…
THE Sta. Barbara government has vehemently opposed the plan of the provincial government to use the pavilion of the provincial nursery in Barangay Tebag East here as hospital isolation extension for patients under investigation (PUI) of COVID-19. “We will not agree to such a plan,” said Mayor Joel delos Santos…
CLOSING TIME – Market is emptied of buyers and vendors at 3 pm. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
RESIDENTS of Alaminos City received various vegetables and fruits bought by the city government from farmers who could not transport their produce to other markets owing to the declared extreme enhanced community quarantine that restricts movements of residents and bans operations of public transportation in Pangasinan. City Agriculturist Arceli Talania…
MOBILE TALIPAPA – A market vendor in Lingayen rides through barangays on customized padyak tricycle to sell varied fresh vegetables and fish products. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
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