THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Pangasinan is now 85 percent ready for the conduct of simultaneous Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in 1,364 barangays all over the province on May 14 this year. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas said the elections will definitely push through after Congress failed to pass…
THE hospital director of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City has appealed to authorities to speed up the investigation and arrest suspects in the kidnapping of its two health workers in broad daylight last March 12 along A.B. Fernandez East this city. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia told…
ONION FARMS UNDER SIEGE BAYAMBANG—Bayambang becomes the second town in Pangasinan after Bautista that declared a state of calamity due to the onslaught of armyworms, locally called by farmers as “harabas”. At least P500 million worth of onion plants were already reported destroyed by the pest. Bayambang was placed under…
STA. BARBARA–Some 500 hectares of onion plantations in five towns were affected by the onslaught of armyworms, locally known as “harabas”. “I hope this will not worsen further,” said Provincial Agriculturist Dalisay Moya who admitted that armyworms exacted heavy tolls on traditional onion farms in Bautista, Bayambang, Umingan, Malasiqui and Alcala. Moya said there…
THE Dagupan City police dismissed as fake news a report circulated in social media on the alleged abduction or kidnapping of minors in the city and in other towns and cities that unduly created alarm and panic among city residents, especially parents concerned about the safety of their children. P/Supt….
STA. BARBARA—Farmers have been advised to embrace technology, mechanization, and credits backed by financial literacy if they want to improve their yields and profits. This was what Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the senate committee on agriculture, imparted to farmers at the opening of the nine-day 2018 Umaani Expo organized…
LOST INSIDE THE SUNFLOWER MAZE – Visitors laughingly try to find their way through the three sunflower mazes in Barangay C. Lichauco Tayug town. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
TAYUG—There was only one sunflower maze that started a sunflower craze in the region, today there are three sunflower mazes in this town that will rock the visitors in Luzon. The mazes that were opened to the public on March 12 and will last until May 31, were developed by…
PILGRIMAGE ISLAND ALAMINOS CITY— Planning on a meaningful observance of the Holy Week? Nature lovers and Roman Catholic faithful should consider exploring the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) in this beautiful city, particularly during the Holy Week because there is the Pilgrimage Island. There is a towering 56-foot (17-meter) high…
SENATORS’ GUARANTEE LINGAYEN–The Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections set on May 14 this year will push through as scheduled notwithstanding the House of Representatives’ approval of the bill postponing the selections anew to October on second reading. Three senators, namely, Nancy Binay, JV. Ejercito and Joel Villanueva, who were in Pangasinan on Thursday…
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