WHILE CITY’S VACTRON IS NOT OPERATIONAL DECLOGGING of drainage operations by the City Engineering Office (CEO) along the city’s main thoroughfares using Vactron machine provided by the Department of Public Works and Highways to support the Flood Mitigation program of the city government has begun. Mayor Belen Fernandez and City…
SOME 54 deputy fish wardens, members of Task Force Bantay Ilog, attended training at the E-Library building in Poblacion Oeste to prepare them for their role as guardians of the city’s tributaries. Mayor Belen Fernandez, in her welcome remarks, encouraged the participants to apply their training in enforcing the laws…
MACHO TRICYCLE, JEEPNEY DRIVERS VACCINATED – The first batch of tricycle and jeepney drivers pose for The PUNCH showing off their arm muscles after getting their doses of COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots at the ‘Drive-thru’ site at the Dagupan City Transport Terminal along the De Venecia Highway in Barangay Poblacion Oeste. (Punchphoto by Ahikam Pasion)
THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) named Dagupan City as one of the Top Performing Local Government Units (LGUs) in Pangasinan for its Vaccination Information Management System (VIMS) for the third quarter of 2022. The DICT, along with other government agencies, provides technical support and assistance in the…
MOST COMMON CAUSE: DEPRESSION THE Department of Health – Center for Health Development Region I (DOH-CHD1) is watching the increase rate of suicide cases in Ilocandia. Dr. Magnolia Brabante, DOH-CHD 1 Medical Officer IV, shared the information as the country observes the National Suicide Prevention Month, and cited depression as…
By Farah G. Decano CARDINAL Antonio Tagle once said, “[i]f you are not useful anymore, you are dropped, you don’t exist. It is not human dignity. It is not a contemplation of human dignity. Even people are measured by profitability.” That people must bring value to an organization in…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. VIVA is a Spanish word that literally means ‘long live’ in English. Some Latino countries say “Viva” to congratulate somebody for an achievement, some as a birthday greeting. I learned this when I was a fourth-year high school student at Jackson High School (now…
By Rex Catubig BEING advanced in age tends to make one retreat and hark back. It seems to follow the rule in physics where for every action there is an equal opposite reaction. So as you move forward in years, the more you get older, the more you look…
R1MC SPECIALISTS TO 14 PROVINCIAL HOSPITALS – Gov. Ramon Guico III and Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia, Region 1 Medical Center Director sign the memorandum of agreement for their partnership. They are joined by Ruel Raymund Malubag, R1MC chief administrative officer, and Board Member Sheila Marie Baniqued. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
THE Pangasinan provincial government and the Region 1 Medical Center signed a memorandum of agreement for the deployment of the latter’s medical specialists to all the 14 hospitals run by the province to enable Pangasinenses to have access to the best health experts available. The MOA was signed jointly on…
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