ROUND-SHAPED FRUITS FOR 2024 – A fruit vendor in Dagupan City displays only the best round-shaped fruits, from oranges and grapes to apples, lemon and longan to attract families for their traditional ‘good luck’ wish during New Year revelry. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
THE price of rice in Pangasinan has seen a significant increase before the end of 2023. According to the monitoring of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region I, special local commercial rice costs P50 to P64, premium-milled sells between P48 to P58, well-milled for P40 to P57, while regular-milled…
TOROTOT TAYO, NO FIRECRACKERS, PLEASE – Four students garbed in outfits of Santa Claus’ elves, blow the toy horns during the launching of the “Iwas Paputok” campaign of the Department of Health and the Dagupan City government. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Bureau of Fire Protection, along with the Philippine National Police have issued lists of banned firecrackers. P/Captain Renan dela Cruz, Pangasinan PNP Information Officer, said the PNP Firearms and Explosives Office issued the following guidelines on whether a firecracker should be banned or not: Firecrackers should have a maximum…
THE Dagupan City hall employees packed the session hall of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Thursday afternoon bearing placards “Hwag ninyo kaming taguan, bonus aprobahan” went home feeling dejected after the seven members of the majority in that chamber rejected their request for the approval of a supplemental budget and its twin…
MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL THE P150 million allotted for the Mother and Child Hospital in the General Appropriations Act approved even during the previous administration is intended for Dagupan City only. This was clarified by Atty. Jordan Falces, legal officer of the Department of Health (DOH) regional office, during a…
PANGASINAN already recorded eight firecracker-related injuries as of December 27 monitoring of the Department of Health–Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) Region I. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, Medical Officer IV, said out of 12 persons injured, four were victims from the firecracker depot explosion in Barangay Malued, Dagupan City which occurred Monday…
BEACHGOERS in Binmaley town were unduly alarmed when the color of the beach’s water appeared differently that others mistook it for an oil spill. “Parang kulay-putik siya, akala naming oil spill”, said Melissa, a tourist from Benguet. Patrick Andrada of the Binmaley Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO)…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) PNP assures no indiscriminate gun firing on New Year’s eve P/Brig.General Lou Evangelista, police regional office 1 director, expressed confidence that there will be no indiscriminate firing of guns by policemen and decided not to put a tape the nozzle of their firearms. He…
POLICE CONTROL FIRECRACKER SALE – A policeman in Dagupan City stands guard inside the designated firecracker selling zone, watching out for clandestine selling of banned firecrackers. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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