A jeepney driver who was worried about his family’s upkeep because of the lockdown was found hanging dead on May 18 in Barangay San Aurelio 1st, Balungao. Modesto Casil, 63, was found by his son and namesake Modesto Jr, 39, hanging on an ipil-ipil tree with an electrical wire tied…
A barangay kapitan of Calasiao and 15 other persons are facing charges for various violations of the protocol established for the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) for attending a birthday party. Calasiao Police Chief, P/Lt. Col. Joseph Fajardo said Severino Tuazon of Barangay Poblacion East and others who attended a birthday…
Brgy kapitan, 15 others face raps for birthday bash
EVEN during the General Community Quarantine, there has been no let-up in the campaign of the Dagupan Police against illegal drugs. Recently arrested on Arellano Street in Barangay Pantal at about 2:30 p.m. on May 20 in a buy-bust operation was Jesus Canave, alias “Jess”, 57, a store vendor, who sold one sachet of suspected…
Shabu pusher nabbed in Dagupan
AN Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who could not report for work overseas due to Covid-19, met his untimely demise Thursday afternoon when he was ran over by a ten-wheeler truck. P/Lt. Col. Joseph Fajardo, Calasiao chief of police, identified the victim as Christian Tolentino, a resident of Poblacion Sur in…
OFW hit by 10-wheeler truck, dies
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SP Front page May 17, 2020 issue
PUNCHITERIA
Editorial Cartoon
Be very afraid THE decision of Governor Amado Espino III to ask for a downgrade for Pangasinan – from a ‘low-risk area’ (no quarantine) to General Community Quarantine (GCQ) was both prudent and practical for the province. Indeed, to completely remove all protocols for communities will easily give the wrong…
Editorial
A hero newspaperman is a dead newspaperman By Ermin Garcia Jr. ON May 20, Wednesday, our PUNCH family will observe the 54th death anniversary of my father, Ermin Garcia (EG), our founder-editor-publisher (1955-1966)! It was on May 20, 1966 when a politician, then Councilor Martin Soriano of Lingayen went…