THE National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (C.O.D.E.) recently held extensive testing in Pangasinan as part of the Test, Trace, Treat (TTT) strategy to detect COVID-19 cases. Director Pebbles Duque of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), said CODE involves close coordination between and among various…
THE Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) reported that 123 policemen have since tested positive for COVID-19 but only 12 remain active cases, as of Oct. 21. P/Colonel Jessiemyr Protacio, chief of the Regional Health Service 1, said 111 had recovered. The Administrative Support for COVID-19 Task Force Monitoring of the…
ALARMED by police reports that rape cases increased during the period of the pandemic, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed an ordinance for the establishment of a gender-based and risk-based protocol in handling gender-based violence cases against women in Pangasinan. An emotional Fifth District Board Member Grace Rosary Perez-Tababa had appealed to…
JOB order employees, consultants, contractual and other employees hired in January will be given P2,500 worth of assistance by the provincial government to help them cope with difficulties during the pandemic. This was contained in Provincial Resolution No. 1649, series of 2020 approved during October 19 virtual session of the…
RENEWING REMEMBRANCE –A tombstone maker rushes work on stone to replace an old tombstone as a family’s remembrance. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN’S NEWEST ATTRACTION AS the country eases up guidelines to restore tourism activities, the Baywalk project in Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City, the latest new major attraction in Pangasinan, was inaugurated yesterday. Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia and Mayor Brian Lim led the inauguration of the first phase of…
THE provincial government brought the Pamanang Yaman, Produktong Pangasinan, a component of the Abig Pangasinan Program of Governor Amado Espino III to San Carlos City and Villasis on October 19 and 22 respectively, for a two-day affair. Jewel Rey Padilla, Population Program Officer II of the Provincial Population, Cooperative, and…
THE training of displaced workers in this time of pandemic, numbering around 400,000, including returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), are the target priorities of the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA). This was bared by TESDA Deputy Director General Anecito “John” Bertiz III in a talk to newsmen during…
WHEN THE ROD STILL TEACHES A LESSON — A terribly frightened mother of a child who was almost hit on the street by an oncoming vehicle decided to teach her stubborn son the lesson for disobeying her not to play on the street using a small tree twig she picked…
AN online raffle of a third year AB Communication student from the University of Pangasinan-PHINMA is making rounds in social media for a cause to help raise funds for his father in Iloilo City who’s been recently diagnosed with cancer. Jose Robert Inventor, presently residing in Bolinao, launched the raffle…
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