THE president of the League of Mayor of the Philippines (LMP) Pangasinan chapter has called on all fellow mayors to follow the protocol or chain of command whenever they declare lockdown in their respective municipalities during the current health emergency Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, LMP provincial chapter president, said municipal…
SEXIST ATTITUDE THE biggest irony of it all. Police stations in the country are required to put up Women and their Children Desks yet the number of cases of violations of Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) (Republic Act 9262) ranks as the highest among cases filed against police personnel….
WHERE’S THE ENFORCEMENT? — Newly-painted markers for physical distancing on the sidewalk in Dagupan City are ignored by an illegally parked motorist and pedestrians the street on seeing no one enforcing the rules. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
PANGASINAN added another feather to its cap when it was chosen one of the seven provinces in the country that qualified for the 2019 Local Government Unit (LGU) Performance-Based Bonus (PBB). This was gleaned from the Notice of Eligibility from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Development…
LAX COMPLIANCE OF RULES NOTED THE San Carlos City government has warned that it will order another lockdown in barangays if residents continue to disregard and violate the safety protocols issued for General Community Quarantine (GCQ) to contain the spread of Covid-19, City Mayor Mayor Julier Resuello said he note…
TWENTY-three more locally stranded individuals (LSIs) were assisted by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) to be able to cross over to Pangasinan on June 8 after being refused at the Rosales-San Manuel (Tarlac) border. Like previous batches of stranded persons, the 29 Pangasinenses who traveled from Metro…
PREPARING FOR REGULAR CLASSES – Expecting face-to-face classes to continue, a utility man paints on markers for physical distancing from the entrance to the walkway of West Central Elementary School in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SOME 161,258 indigent senior citizens in Region 1 are set to receive P3,000 stipend each for the first semester of calendar year 2020 being distributed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 1 (DSWD FO1). According to DSWD FO1, the towns and cities that completed their emergency…
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is offering a zero percent interest loan for all qualified micro and small enterprises in Pangasinan through the COVID-19 Assistance to Restart Enterprises (CARES) program under its Pondo para sa Pagbabago at Pag-asenso (P3). DTI Undersecretary Abdulgani Macatoman earlier announced that micro enterprises…
THE Social Security System (SSS)-Dagupan branch clarified that it is not giving a ‘bonus’ for pensioners in the midst of quarantine. Primitivo Verania, Jr., SSS-Dagupan acting branch manager, made the clarification about rumored ‘quarantine bonus’ for pensioners equivalent to their one-month pension. “He said SSS never issued an advisory,” Verania…
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