DESPITE SUMMER DENGUE case continues to rise in Pangasinan this year despite the hot weather. Records at the Provincial Health Office (PHO) show that from January 1 to May 7 this year there were 1,152 cases of dengue, including five deaths, compared to only 427 cases and three deaths for…
PNP REGIONAL OFFICE 1 MONITORING CALASIAO—A total of 384 candidates in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in Region 1—of which 209 are in Pangasinan—are reportedly involved in illegal drugs, according to the police regional director. Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula told local newsmen on May 2 here for the…
IT’S TIME TO GRILL BANGUS! — Dagupan City officials led by Mayor Belen Fernandez with former House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., former Rep. Gina de Venecia, Rep. Christopher de Venecia, and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos set fire on the grill to signal the start of Kalutan ed Dalan late afternoon of…
BANGUS FESTIVAL 2018 MORE than a million people—a new record turnout—joined this year’s Bangusan Street Party or “Kalutan Ed Dalan” on the De Venecia Highway Extension on April 30. It was the biggest Bangusan Street Party yet as the number of Dagupeños and visitors from neighboring cities and towns who…
TO BARANGAY BRASS IN NARCO-LIST SURRENDER and undergo rehabilitation if necessary, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque has exhorted barangay officials whose names are in the so-called “narco list” released by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Roque, who was in Dagupan City on April 30 for the Kalutan ed Dalan (street…
ELECTION WATCH LIST AREAS SIX barangays in Pangasinan have been included in the Election Watch List Areas in Pangasinan for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections due to “intense political rivalries”. This was revealed by Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas who said the joint monitoring teams by the Commission on Elections,…
THE municipality of Calasiao has been officially cleared of illegal drugs by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Office 1. P/Superintendent Charlie Umayam, Calasiao police chief, said all the 24 barangays have been cleared earlier of illegal drugs, while the 414 drug surrenderers have completed the community-based rehabilitation program…
FULFILLING KABALEYANS’ DREAM MALASIQUI—Third District Rep. Rose Marie “Baby” Arenas and her daughter, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chair Rachel Arenas, made dreams come true for thousands of their ‘kabaleyans’ by bringing to the local stage Coco Martin, king of Philippine primetime television, on April 29 in…
AMPLE COMMERCIAL RICE AVAILABLE THERE are no rice stocks in the warehouses of the National Food Authority (NFA) in Western Pangasinan and the markets, according to Lita Catabay, the cereal agency’s senior enforcement and investigation officer for Western Pangasinan. Speaking at a KBP Forum on May 3, Catabay said her office…
ALLEGED BLACK SAND MINING LINGAYEN—“We suffered a lot but now we are vindicated.” This was the sentiment expressed jointly by former provincial administrator Rafael Baraan and Alvin Bigay, of the Provincial Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Office (PHUDCO), upon learning that the Supreme Court had upheld an earlier Court of…
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