It’s time to honor Pangasinan’s sports heroes By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT’S been my long desire and high time now to fete our numerous sports heroes that gave honor and pride to our beloved province, then and now, by our local lawmakers, with the nod of our hardworking and…
A sudden nightmare By Leonardo Micua AT a time when vaccination was finally being rolled out in various parts of the country after exactly one year of the coronavirus, a sudden surge of cases in some parts of the country, particularly in the National Capital Region, has made the situation virtually…
By Jing Villamil THEY moved on fast, these young ones. From sweet dates to wedded bliss, from pregnant bellies to squealing babies, who in turn, by their little selves, moved on even faster, from crawlers to toddlers to brawlers. And having moved so early on and so furiously fast, a…
LAND OF THE WORLD’S BEST ROCK SALT – A salt bed worker in Dasol town in Pangasinan prepares to haul harvested rock salt on woven basket for delivery to suppliers. Dasol’s salt has since become a popular household brand in urban cities here and overseas for its nutrient. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
34 AS OF MARCH 19 WHILE only nine positive cases were logged on March 10 and 11, the number of active cases in Dagupan has risen to 34 in just one week as of March 19, showing a slight resurgence of COVID-19. The number exceeded the tally registered on March 1 at 26 which was down to 20 and 18 on March 2 and…
A FORMER city mayor and the incumbent vice mayor of Alaminos have tested positive for COVID-19. Former Mayor Arthur Celeste confirmed on his Facebook page on March 17 that his RT-PCR test showed he was positive for COVID-19 despite his doubled efforts to be careful and following minimum health standards,…
LIFE REFLECTION DURING COVID-19 SINCE that almost fatal COVD-19 infection that hit both the Bayambang mayor and his wife, a life reflection dawned on Niña Jose-Quiambao, wife of Mayor Cezar Quiambao and shared it in a Facebook post on March 16. Narrating how their traumatic journey started at the start…
TIGHT SECURITY FOR VACCINES – All deliveries of vaccines to any point in Pangasinan are well secured by a team of heavily armed policemen, just like the delivery of the Sinovac vaccines to Region1 Medical Center last week as shown above. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AS of March 19, some 3,775 medical frontliners in Dagupan City received their allotted first dose of vaccines that arrived in the city two weeks ago. Of the number, 814 were vaccinated at the central vaccination center of the city at the People’s Astrodome. As the vaccines initially allocated to Dagupan were about to run out,…
HOLY WEEK PILGRIMAGE THE Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manaoag, one of the most popular religious sites in the North, is gearing up for the expected arrival of pilgrims during the observance of the Holy Week from March 28 to April 3. “Nothing’s changed in the…
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