A FORMER barangay kagawad and a university professor in Dagupan City were gunned down while their male companion was wounded in a gun attack Thursday night in Barangay Tapuac. P/Superintendent Jandale Sulit, city police chief, identified the slain victims as Johnny Baniqued, 47, a businessman engaged in real estate, and…
NO VICTORY LINER-SOLID NORTH COMPROMISE THE possibility of closing the bus terminals of three bus lines located near the Perez Boulevard and Mayombo intersection is becoming imminent because there is no indication that a compromise agreement has been reached between Victory Liner and Solid North bus lines over the use…
THE Samahang Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) expressed serious doubts about the sufficiency of NFA rice in the months ahead contrary to assurances made by National Food Authority (NFA). SINAG president Rosendo So projects that the supply of rice from NFA, including the stocks from the commercial and minimum access volume will not…
THE more than 200 drug users and pushers in Alcala town who surrendered were subjected to drug tests as part of the continuing anti-drug program of the town. And all proved negative of drug use. P/Chief Inspector Ferdinand Lopez, chief of police in Alcala, said there were 312 that surrendered…
LINGAYEN —“Wala pong iwanan ito dahil kahit ano pong mangyari tayo-tayo po ang magsasama-sama hanggang sa huli.” This was made clear by Governor Amado Espino III during the orientation-seminar for newly-elected barangay officials on August 23 at the Sison Auditorium. He urged barangay officials to focus on health, employment and…
EMERGENCY FINALLY OVER LINGAYEN — The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO), on Gov. Amado Espino III’s direction, has distributed 7,350 family packs of relief goods to Pangasinenses affected by southwest monsoon or Habagat. The provincial government began distributing family packs of relief goods in Calasiao, Sta. Barbara, Mangatarem,…
PINABLIN AMA– The Dagupan police honor guard stand by the casket bearing the remains of the late former Dagupan City Mayor Al Fernandez on the way to the City Museum for the necrological services organized by the city government in his honor on Friday, August 16. Interment was held the following…
THE late Mayor Alipio “Al” Fernandez, Jr. was conferred the title of “Pinablin Ama Na Dagupan” by Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP) at Metroplaza on August 10. The title was accorded posthumously in a resolution during a special session of the SP following the unanimous approval of a resolution authored by ABC president…
LINGAYEN—As of Friday, August 17, 159 barangays in 11 towns and three cities of Pangasinan are still inundated due to unprecedented monsoon rains similar to what happened barely two weeks ago that forced the evacuation of 2,401 families comprising 9,224 individuals, according to a Situational Report of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction…
IF you are wondering why towns and cities suddenly found themselves flooded, that’s because the amount of rainfall dumped from August 1 to 16 in Pangasinan was already almost equivalent to two-month average. This was the finding of chief meteorologist of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGASA) in…
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