E-SABONG BETTING STATIONS SOON TO GO – The usual crowd of bettors that gather at e-sabong betting stations daily will soon disappear after Pagcor agreed to suspend e-sabong operations in the country as requested by the Senate after a committee hearing last Thursday. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Ilocos Department of Education (DepEd Region 1) said that some 77 public schools in the region have started to participate in the expanded phase of face-to-face classes on Monday, Feb. 21. In a virtual press conference, DepEd Region Policy Planning and Research Division Officer Pedro Jose Cudal said the…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas took the pulpit anew and expounded his views on current political events by providing a contrast between politics of the Marcos regime that led to EDSA People Power in 1986. Villegas referred to the 1986 uprising as a “yellow revolution as history writers saw the yellow…
BOUNTIFUL HARVEST – A tobacco grower happily hangs burley tobacco leaves to dry under the sun in Barangay Angio in San Fabian town. The town is one of the top producers of quality tobacco leaves. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE issue about the P25,000 per month “kotong” money collected by Market Marshals from small fish vendors at the Magsaysay Fish Market in Dagupan City has now finally reached the attention of the whole nation. Thanks to front-running senatorial candidate Raffy Tulfo, who has a public service program on TV…
THE Office of the City Prosecutor in Dagupan City dismissed the complaint for Direct Assault Upon an Agent of Person In Authority filed by a member of the Market Marshal against Marietta Barrientos, president of the Small-scale Fish Consignment and Retailers at Riverside Association, for insufficiency of evidence. The three-page…
THE Department of Science and Technology – Regional Office 1(DOST-1) through its Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) in Pangasinan awarded P180, 000 financial assistance to Bani Delicious Ice Cream, Sustainable Livelihood Program Association (SLPA) in Bayambang. The financial assistance was used to purchase an ice cream maker machine to…
GOVERNOR Amado Espino III expressed his gratitude to the Aboitiz Power Corporation for investing in a P4.5 billion solar energy project in Bugallon town that broke ground on Thursday, February 24, hoping to make Pangasinan set the pace in the efforts to harness energy from the sun throughout the country. Launched…
THE Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAg) planted 2,500 mangrove seedlings and benchmarking activities in Bolinao by agricultural extension workers at the Provincial Mangrove Information Center and Hatchery in Barangay Arnedo, Bolinao, on February 18. To support the environmental protection and rehabilitation, and coastal resource management (CRM) program of the…
FINALLY BUSTED – A Dagupan resident waits to be cuffed by police and PDEA operatives after he sold shabu to an undercover cop in a buy-bust operation in Dagupan City. The suspect is listed in the city police and PDEA’s drug watchlist. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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