THE Philippine Identification System’s (PhilSys) first step of the registration process is already 81 percent completed. Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Regional Director Shiela De Guzman said the PhilSys seeks to establish a single national identification system for all citizens and resident aliens of the Republic of the Philippines. She said…
THE Dagupan City Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) conducted regular patrol around the city to ensure no illegal firecrackers would be sold for the New Year revelry. Fire Chief Inspector Bryan Pocyao, Dagupan BFP fire marshal, said 21 stalls selling firecrackers stationed along Burgos Street, were given permits to sell….
THREE families were rendered homeless while one establishment was gutted in two separate fires that broke out in Lingayen on New Year’s Day. The first fire broke out in Barangay Tonton at about 3:30 a.m. on January 1 that gutted the houses of Ma. Theresa Aquino, 54; Enriquita Casaclang, 73;…
IMPACT OF FIRECRACKER BAN — Regular firecracker vendors were disappointed lot at the firecracker zone in front of West Central Elem. School before December 31, 2020 when no one rushed to buy and grab their items for the usual revelry. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FEW hours before New Year, the police across Pangasinan simultaneously swooped down on several firecracker stalls and seized thousands of pesos worth of illegal and unauthorized firecrackers and pyrotechnics from different vendors. In Malasiqui town, police seized on December 31 were P6,220 worth of banned firecrackers from seven vendors who…
THE government’s Convergence on Livelihood Assistance for Agrarian Beneficiaries Project (CLAAP) that started in 2019 has already benefitted more than a thousand agrarian reform beneficiary (ARB) farmers in Pangasinan. CLAAP focused on rice production in 2020 with the distribution of P12.45-million worth of sacks of seeds and bags of fertilizers…
RIZAL’S FINAL MOMENTS – Local actors and teachers in Lingayen re-enact the final moments of Dr. Jose Rizal during the commemoration of the national hero’s 124th martyrdom in front of the Rizal monument in Lingayen last December 30. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
INNERWHEELERS’ MARKER – Mayor Brian Lim, accompanied by Inner Wheel Club (IWC) District Chairman Jeisella Gaerlan and IWC Dagupan City president Maritess Manuyag. lead the unveiling of the marker of the Inner Wheel Club (IWC) of Dagupan City to mark the 75th founding anniversary of the club. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
RIZAL DAY COMMEMORATION – Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil (2nd from left) and P/Col. Ronald Gayo (left), Pangasinan police director, lead town officials and civic groups in offering flowers at the monument of Dr. Jose Rizal at the town plaza. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
HONOR GUARDS – Members of the Patriotic 4th Degree of Knights of Columbus Pangasinan Council 3711 and Msgr. Antonio Padilla Assembly stand guard after the wreath laying ceremony during the commemoration of Dr. Jose Rizal’s martyrdom at the Dagupan City plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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