THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) clarified it has stopped issuing voters ID since 2017. This was clarified by the polling body after new voter registrants have been airing complaints over the perceived failure of the commission to issue these. Atty. Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor, said COMELEC already announced that…
NATIONAL Cancer Awareness Month is observed annually every February to raise awareness about cancer and spread the importance of early detection, which is paramount to its prevention. This year marks the second year of the campaign “Close the care gap” to reduce the inequities that exist in accessing quality cancer…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved a resolution during its regular session on February 20, calling for the establishment of the Pangasinan Safety and Emergency Response, Command, Control and Communications (PASER C3) as the province’s Emergency 911 Hotline Center. Authored by SP Member Vici M. Ventanilla, the resolution which was endorsed to…
(Compiled by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Discipline zone ordinance enforced in Alaminos City ALAMINOS City government has started enforcing its Discipline Zone Ordinance seeking to institute discipline among its people and put order in the entire city. The ordinance provides penalties for jaywalking, illegal parking, illegal vending, improper disposal of wastes,…
GOLD HARVEST — A tobacco farmer diligently inspects Virginia tobacco leaves being dried in his farm in Barangay Angio in San Fabian town in Pangasinan. The tobacco industry has been a source of income and provide a livelihood to most residents in this part of the region. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ARBOS’ THREE YEARS PRODUCTION SEVEN agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) in the province were able to sell a total of P263 million worth of agricultural produce since 2020, thanks to the Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP), an inter-agency government program. Zarena Ann Amado, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)…
A GOVERNMENT hospital soon to rise in Calasiao? Third District Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas has filed House Bill No. 382 titled “An Act of Establishing a Hospital in the Municipality of Calasiao, Province of Pangasinan, to be known as the Calasiao District Hospital, and Appropriating Funds Therefor”. It will have…
(Compiled by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Region 1’s48,380 workers benefit from TUPAD THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) distributed P1.130 billion fund under the program Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) to 48,380 workers of Region 1 last year. Justin Paul Marbella, regional information officer of DOLE Region…
THE tunnel robbery gang, responsible for a number of heists in Pangasinan in the past, struck again last February 19, victimizing a pawn shop in Mangaldan town that lost over P1 million cash and jewelry. A group of suspected gang members managed to pull off a Hollywood-style heist, dug their their…
STUDENTS and teachers of the Urdaneta City National High School (UCNHS) were sent home after receiving a reports of a bomb threat on Tuesday, February 21. Personnel from the Urdaneta City Police Station and the 5th District Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Canine Unit (DECU) were dispatched to the school building,…
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