By Leonardo Micua AGAIN, the people of Dagupan are trooping to the Dagupan City hall in droves, something they had not done for the past three years under the past city administration. And because all cannot be accommodated in the city hall’s second floor for fear it might collapse…
ACTIVE COVID-19 cases further rose from 95 to 322 in Region 1 last week, 165 of which were from Pangasinan and Dagupan City, according to the latest monitoring as of July 13 of the Department of Health (DOH) regional office. At the Kapihan sa Ilocos on July 14, Dr. Rhuel…
STOP-AND-GO ON FLOODED INTERSECTION — A Public Order and Safety Office enforcer in Dagupan City directs traffic to prevent a bottleneck as vehicles move slowly on a flooded intersection on A.B. Fernandez Ave. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
LEAN, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE WORK FORCE GOVERNOR Ramon Guico III spelled out a new working guideline for employees at the provincial capitol, a week after assuring employees they can keep their jobs so long as they didn’t compromise their values and the institution they are working. He said “a very lean,…
CONTRACTOR CAN’T SHOW CONSTRUCTION PLANS “SAKIT ng ulo yan!” This was the curt reply of Mayor Belen Fernandez when asked for her assessment of the continuing construction of a new city hall, in front of the old one in Barangay 1 in Dagupan City that was started by his predecessor….
THE Department of Health-Center for Health Development Region 1 (DOH-CHD 1) recorded one case of the new Omicron subvariant (BA.5) in Pangasinan. According to Dr. Rheuel Bobis, COVID-19 focal spokesperson of the DOH-CHD 1, the lone case of the BA.5 infection in the province is in Bugallon town. Four other…
IMPROVISING ON THE SPOT – A group of young ladies decide to use plastic bags to cover their shoes as they cross flooded streets in Dagupan City during the high tide last week. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TWO PLUS ONE BOOSTER THE Department of Health always referred to individuals who had two doses of vaccines as “fully vaxxed” but apparently having two doses are no longer enough to keep the COVID-19 infection from rising. The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) is expected to change the definition of ‘fully…
THE cases of five former department heads of Santa Barbara government who were allegedly ‘illegally-seated’ being ‘unqualified’ during the past administration under former mayor Joel delos Santos are under probe. This was bared by town mayor Carlito Zaplan in an interview over Aksyon Radyo. Zaplan said two out of five…
MANY people have already expressed interests in availing of the free CT-Scan machine installed at the Dagupan Diagnostic Center but its operation still cannot be done until full compliance with regulations is completed, including hiring of trained technicians. Dr. Ophelia Rivera, city heath officer, said the machine still cannot be…
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