HERD IMMUNITY POSSIBLE BY DECEMBER CLOSE to one million Pangasinenses have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of October  25, making the provincial government optimistic that it can achieve herd immunity among eligible population to have been vaccinated before the end of this year. Gov. Amado Espino III, in his video…

NO FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES ONLY 30 schools nationwide will push through with the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes scheduled to start on Nov. 15 and no school in Pangasinan has been included so far. Cesar Bucsit, head of the Public Affairs Unit at the Office of the Regional Director of…

WRATH OF TYPHOON MARING THE onslaught of Typhoon Maring forced 246 families or 1,126 persons in 11 towns and three cities in Pangasinan to be evacuated to safer grounds when strong winds and incessant rains continued for two days, from October 11 to 12. The evacuees were from Pozorrubio, Laoac,…

BATTLE ROYALE IN PANGASINAN A BATTLE royale that will finally decide on who is who in Pangasinan politics has shaped up after incumbent Governor Amado Espino III and Fifth District Rep. Ramon Guico III filed their respective certificates of candidacy for governor on October 7. Both Gov. Espino and Cong….

PANGASINAN GAINS VS DELTA ONSLAUGHT NOTWITHSTANDING the continued threat of the more transmittable COVID-19 Delta variant in Pangasinan, the fight against the pandemic took a dramatic turn when statistics for the period  September 24 to 30 indicated there were 2,433 patients that recovered against 1,582 new confirmed cases logged, while…

UNKNOWN to the coastal communities in Pangasinan, a mining exploration in a large area of the Lingayen Gulf is ongoing following the signing of a technical financial agreement between the company Iron Ore and Vanadium Resources (Phils.) Inc. and the national government last November 25, 2020. This was bared during the Question Hour of the Sangguniang…

AS COVID-19 CASES CONTINUE TO SOAR PANGASINAN detected 10 new confirmed cases of Delta variant of COVID-19 based on the Sept. 15 results released by the Philippine Genome Center through the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1. Eight cases were logged in Dagupan City and one each in San Manuel…

‘NO MOVEMENT DAY’ WEEKLY OBSERVANCE of a “no movement day” once a week and the reinstatement of market schedules as a well as the issuance of quarantine passes are among the salient provisions   imposed by Governor Amado Espino III when Pangasinan was placed under the higher General Community Quarantine…

ALLEGED MISUSE OF COVID-19 IRM FUNDS AT the instance of the Department of Justice, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) District Office in Dagupan City filed complaints at the Office of Ombudsman in Quezon City on September 1 against 15 identified officials of PhilHealth  in main office and  five in…

DAGUPAN LOGS 204 NEW CASES THE province lost 15 ‘kabaleyans’ to COVID-19 on August 24 as the infection surged with 344 new active cases. In its update that day, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported 27 cases higher than Monday’s 317 new cases. Dagupan City logged 204 new active cases,…