By Jing Villamil SUCH small soft hands. For such a small soft child. Flesh of my flesh, bones of my bones, blood of my blood. She brushed my curls way up and back. She smoothed the deep frowns. She poked wide the eyes, pinched the nose, stretched the lips…
A DECLINING TREND NOTED IN PANGASINAN THE number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan scaled down anew on June 17 with more patients that recovered from the COVID-19 infection than the number of new cases registered over a one-week period from June 11. Based on records of the Provincial Health…
Finally, more recoveries than new active cases
JOSE RIZAL’S 160TH BIRTHDAY – Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim leads the city government in commemorating the 160th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal with wreath-laying ceremony at the city’s Rizal Park. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
JOSE RIZAL’S 160TH BIRTHDAY
TIRED AND OVERWORKED VACCINATION at the Dagupan City Astrodome is proceeding smoothly despite the fact that the city has only seven nurses in the regular plantilla and all of whom had to be pulled out from their respective assignments to be on duty at the city’s central vaccination center. This was…
Under-staffed Dagupan vax center needs more nurses
MOST WANTED MAN IN REGION,TOO A NATIONAL level-listed wanted person from Pangasinan with P550,000 reward for his capture was arrested by joint police operatives on June 17 in Calamba, Laguna after years of hiding from the long arm of the law. Arrested was Montesson Ignacio Jr., alias “Pogito”, a construction worker from San Quintin…
Pangasinan’s most wanted man arrested in Laguna
WITH 71 active COVID-19 cases as of June 15, Urdaneta City was moved on top of the COVID-19 watchlist of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) from among the province’s towns and cities. But Dagupan City, an independent component city in Pangasinan, actually had the most number of active cases with…
Urdaneta tops June 15 COVID watchlist
PANGASINAN and other local governments in Region 1 will soon issue Safety Seals of Certification (SSC) to public and private buildings, public places and tourism sites that passed the health and safety protocols promulgated by the Department of Health (DOH). Speaking during the PIA’s Kapehan sa Ilocos last June 15, Agnes…
‘Safety Seals’ to be issued to COVID-free establishments, sites
CONTRACTS EXPIRE ON AUG 2 EFFORTS in contact-tracing in the region may be derailed if the contracts of the contact tracers deployed by the regional office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) are not renewed when these contracts expire on August 2. This was revealed by…
Contact-tracing in region hangs in balance
IT’S FATHER’S DAY EVERY “BIKE & RUN DAY” – Two daddies push their bike pedals tirelessly with joy seen in their eyes as they impress their kids (a young girl sits comfortably behind her biker-daddy and a young boy simulates control of the bike in front of his biker-daddy) with…
IT’S FATHER’S DAY EVERY “BIKE & RUN DAY”
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has granted Mayor Brian Lim authority to sign and enter into an agreement with various private organizations and institutions needing assistance for their respective rollout of their privately-funded/procured COVID-19 vaccines, including the authority to accept COVID-19 vaccine donations from them. The resolution proposed by Councilor Cisco…