THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office reported that under a modified general community quarantine status, Pangasinan PNP still maintains 19 border control checkpoints, 3 dedicated control checkpoints and 170 quarantine checkpoints. P/ Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, said the checkpoints have so far resulted in the arrests of 22,096 persons…
DRUG-FREE TOWNS: 28 THE town of Basista has been added to the list of drug-cleared cities and municipalities in Pangasinan per declaration of the regional sub-committee led by PDEA in Pangasinan. According to P/Colonel Redrico A. Maranan, police rovincial director, the other towns already declared drug-free as of last are…
AN asymptomatic resident of Barangay Galarin in Urbiztondo tested positive for Covid-19. Mayor Martin Raul Sison said the new case arrived in Pangasinan from Quezon City on July 2 and was made to do a swab test at the Urdaneta City border point. The confirmation of his positive case was…
RULES FOR BACK RIDERS – A Dagupan POSO personnel checks the marriage contract presented by the couple as proof for the right allow his wife as a backrider, at the border checkpoint at Caranglaan while a police officer explains other rules for back riders. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
TO a tricycle driver, a single father with three children to support, honesty is one virtue that he has kept since he started riding tricycles for livelihood and has found self-fulfillment in returning valuables left by his passengers. His advocacy led him to return a bag he found on a…
PANGASINAN has been declared insurgency-free since last year but still government troops cannot be complacent because the insurgents may just be waiting for the opportunity to strike. This was the situation described by P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on Monday, as he pointed out that…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the clergy of Lingayen Dagupan “deeply regret the decision of the President to sign the Anti-Terror Bill into law over and above the vehement objections of well-meaning citizens”. In a statement titled “We Are Taking The Wrong Path”, Villegas said, “It is morally wrong, we…
BROKEN CAMPAIGN PROMISE –Vendors and households that regularly buy their food items at the Malimgas Public Market in Dagupan City continue to suffer flooding in the area each time the high tide hits the city in spite of a campaign promise by the Lim administration to at least minimize the inconvenience in the area. (Punchphoto by…
HOUSEHOLDS in Pangasinan decided to be pork-less after they were told that the price of pork in the market has rocketed from P200 per kilo to as high as P260 to P270 per kilo. What most didn’t know was about 51 percent of the estimated 280,000 hog population of Pangasinan…
PORK supply in Luzon is down by 35 to 40 percent due to the African Swine Fever (ASF) that has hit many piggeries. Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura chairman Rosendo So told the virtual forum of the KBP-Pangasinan chapter, via ZoomApp on Thursday that an estimated 350 sows that died in…
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