WHAT TSUNAMI? — The men, unmindful of warnings from Phivolcs about tsunami originating from the Lingayen Gulf, enjoy fishing with their rods regularly to catch fish for recreation and relaxation at the mouth of the Limahong Channel in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
FOR EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI EACH of the Dagupan City’s 31 barangays will craft their own earthquake and tsunami evacuation plans depending on their respective contingencies and given the guidelines issued by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) through its Education Information and Communications. Mayor Belen Fernandez said the strategy…
THE prayer of four members of the majority bloc of the Sangguniang Panlungsod for the issuance of Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) seeking to stop the implementation of the 2023 Annual City Budget amounting to P1.3 billion was denied by the Court last January 12. Regional Trial Court Judge Michael Paul…
PENDING 2024 ANNUAL BUDGET INVOKING Section 52, paragraph b of Republic Act No. 7160 or the Local Government Code, Mayor Belen Fernandez wrote the Sangguniang Panlungsod on January 5, requesting the august body to hold daily special sessions to discuss and approve the Annual Investment Program and Annual Budget for…
US ARMY LANDING IN ‘BLUE BEACH’ AFTER the webinar conducted by the provincial government with an official of the Philippine Veterans Bank and an American archivist of the MacArthur Memorial, Mayor Belen Fernandez is set to issue an executive order that will form a commission to prepare a bigger activity…
STRICT SCREENING OF VISITS – Relatives of detainees at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penolgy/BJMP Dagupan City, are required to present their food packs intended for their detained relatives for clearance before they are allowed entry inside the facility. Personal effects are checked for contrabands particularly drugs. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE newly-created Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) has identified a professor at the University of the Philippines-Baguio as its first president. Dr. Raymundo Rovillos, a professor at the Department of History and Philosophy, College of Social Sciences of the University of the Philippines Baguio was identified in the resolution filed by…
DUE to the existing El Niño phenomenon, dry period in Pangasinan will persist until the month of May. This was disclosed by PAGASA-Dagupan City Chief Meteorological Officer Jose Estrada Jr. who said that the effects of the dry season started to be felt in the province in December of last…
THE Solid Waste Management Office (SWMO) of Basista town launched a mini-contest among its residents asking them to upload a photo that supports the campaign against plastic on the town’s Facebook account before January 30, as part of its ongoing campaign against the single use of plastic bags. The contest aims to create higher awareness…
PROTECTING BABY SEA TURTLES – Personnel of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) prepare to release the four sea turtle hatchlings they found crawling at the beach in Lingayen last week to the sea. A nest with almost a hundred egg shells and six unhatched eggs were found…
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