THE Provincial Inter-Agency Taskforce immediately held an emergency meeting following the reported detection of one COVID-19 case with Delta variant in Ilocos Norte. Provincial Health Office Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa De Guzman revealed the first delta variant case in the region had an exposure to a Pangasinense patient. She said…
THE San Carlos City government achieved the highest single-day vaccine count last Tuesday, July 27 with 1,160 administered doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The number surpassed the recorded highest single-day vaccination on Monday July 26 with 1,064 vials inoculated. In a statement, City Information Officer Jhuliano Nazareno said the city government…
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) is urging residents in the coastal towns of Pangasinan to be vigilant and alert about foreign fishing vessels docking in their area to guard against the possible entry of COVID-19’s Delta variant in their communities. Dr. Anna Maria de Guzman, provincial health officer, reminded coastal…
DESPITE HEAVY RAINS THE intermittent heavy rainfall in Pangasinan the past days failed to stabilize the water level at the San Roque Dam in San Manuel town. It remained at 242.78 meters above sea level (masl) only as of July 29. This was still way below the 280 masl spilling…
THREE persons met their unfortunate end in separate accidents in Calasiao, Sison and Anda towns last Wednesday, July 28. Sophia Mae Episcope, three years old, of Barangay Poblacion West in Calasiao town drowned in the floodwater outside their house. According to police investigation, the victim’s mother, Janice, woke up only…
EARLY MORNING HAUL – Fishermen in Lingayen launch their beach seine nets (kalokor) early morning from the beachfront. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BLESSINGS are raining on an all-male group of ice cream makers/vendors, the latest of which was a P180,000 fund from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to be used for the purchase of ice cream mixer. Fernando Verseles, president of Bani Delicious Ice Cream Sustainable Livelihood Program Association (SLPA)…
FROM EXCISE TAX SIXTY farmers’ associations in 18 towns and cities in the province received a hand tractor with complements each from the provincial government, benefitting 1,500 marginalized farmers. The P10.8 million for the procurement of the hand tractors was from the provincial share of the Burley and Native Tobacco…
THE full potential of Pangasinan in in agriculture and agribusiness was recently cited by Department of Agriculture (DA). DA Secretary William Dar said he is optimistic about Pangasinan’s major role and big potential in the agriculture during the DA-Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) Roll-out of Swine Repopulation, Rehabilitation and…
FREE WI-FI IN PANGASINAN – Department of Information and Communications Technology Secretary Gregorio Honasan II and Gov. Amado Espino III press the virtual button during the ceremonial activation of the Free Wi-Fi for All program in the province last July 23. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
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