BACKLOG in production and distribution of driver’s licenses in Land Transportation Office (LTO) Dagupan Office is already more than ten thousand due to low supply of PVC cards.= LTO Dagupan chief Romel Dawaton said the 10,600 backlog includes new applications, renewals, and student licenses. The office stopped printing, leaving only…
FARMERS in Bayambang were selected as the latest beneficiaries of P1-million worth of new farming machinery by the Department of Agrarian Reform. The donated machinery, composed of hand tractors with trailer, water pumps, floating tillers, knapsack sprayers, and hybrid seeds, were accepted by Municipal Agriculture Office and Bayambang Poverty Reduction…
DAR distributes machineries to Bayambang farmers
(Filed by 107.4 IFM Dagupan News) Bangus price down by 20 percent after Christmas AFTER the long Christmas holiday, the retail price of milkfish in Pangasinan is lower by about 20 per cent, from P200 per kilo during the Christmas season to P180 per kilo. This was gleaned from the price…
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THE Sangguniang Bayan of Mangaldan and the town police station asked the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) to assign additional policemen to the town, after two separate killings of barangay officials over a sixty-day period. The SB recently passed its Resolution No. 2024-002, authored by Councilor Aldrin Soriano, urging P/…
Mangaldan needs more cops
ONE of the four victims of a firecracker explosion inside a compound on Claveria Road in Barangay Malued on Christmas Day died while already recuperating in their house. Roan Velasco, 44, of Barangay Caranglaan, Dagupan City died on January 2, a day after he was discharged from the Region 1…
Second Malued firecracker explosion victim dies
A 41-year-old caregiver was arrested in a buy-bust operation by the operatives from the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) Drug Enforcement Unit, and elements of Dagupan City PNP on Tuesday, January 09, in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. Authorities identified the suspect as Kate Sapinit, a resident of Pasay City…
Caregiver nabbed in drug ops, yields P400k shabu
By Leonardo Micua OUR photo journalist Butch Uka reported to me what appeared to him as widespread theft of steel manhole covers in Barangay Tapuac in Dagupan City by still unknown persons. I told him this is no longer news today as it happened in any other city administration many…
Will cases be filed finally vs. corruption?
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HOW do we remember? How often, how long do we think of our departed and loved ones? Perhaps not so often, and we forget their significance in our lives, so we assign a special day. Last January 9, I attended one of those special days:…
Remembering
By Farah G. Decano I worry about my former colleagues in the Dagupan City Council who now belong to the opposition. Joining the bandwagon of their haters is not my bag of chips because I only remember our good and innocent times. As former city councilor, I had good…
Political seppuku
By Eva C. Visperas IT’S not surprising at all to see the number of surviving World War II veterans decline over the years, a somber acknowledgment of our mortality. Each commemoration of the Lingayen Gulf Landings and Veterans’ Day by the Pangasinan provincial government provides insight into the passing…