VICTIM’S HAND AMPUTATED LINGAYEN—The Provincial Health Office (PHO) again missed its target of zero firecracker injuries this year when three persons were already reported injured by firecracker explosions in separate areas since Christmas Eve. A report reaching The PUNCH showed that one of those injured already had one of his…
ORDER OF THE DAY P/CHIEF Superintendent Romulo Sapitula, police regional office 1 director, has ordered policemen in Pangasinan to go out in the field and “confiscate all banned fireworks and firecrackers!” He gave the order Thursday in his talk to police officers and men of Dagupan City during his field…
R.A.7183 P PNP together and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) are on full alert to safeguard welfare of the public by strictly enforcing the law regulating the manufacture, selling and use of firecrackers in welcoming 2018. P/ Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, police community relations chief of the Pangasinan Police…
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas told his flock during the Christmas eve Eucharistic Mass at the Stadia, CSI complex in Dagupan City not to allow intimacy with their loved ones substituted by virtual presence. “Dati dadalawin mo sa bahay pag Pasko, and then Christmas card na lang, and then…
SYNDICATE HUNTED MEMBERS of a syndicate behind the issuance of fake driver’s license cards are now the objects of an intensive manhunt by the joint Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Pangasinan. This after LTO Region 1 confiscated five fake driver’s license cards of motorcycle riders…
ONE-YEAR SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY THE penalty is too harsh. This was the reaction of Asingan Mayor Heidee Chua who maintained that she and Vice Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr. did not commit any wrongdoing against their constituents and have since filed their respective motions for reconsideration seeking to amend the penalty…
BUSTED DRUG DEN – A PDEA agent goes over the drug paraphernalia in front of the 6 suspected drug users caught in the act using illegal drug inside a drug den at Barangay Herrero-Perez in Dagupan City on Tuesday. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
DRUG DEN IN DAGUPAN A DRUG personality on a high-value target list and six other persons were arrested in Dagupan City on December 19 by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives. The target of the operation conducted in Barangay Herrero Perez East, led by Dexter Asayco, provincial officer of PDEA Pangasinan, was Alexander Lopez, alias…
PANGASINAN’S CHRISTMAS VILLAGE – Thousands of visitors troop to the colorful Christmas Village in San Manuel Pangasinan, to view colorful depiction of characters of blockbuster movies like the Jurassic Park. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SAN MANUEL—From being known as host to the largest dam in the Philippines and the 16th largest in the world, this town is out to earn another moniker as the Christmas Village Capital of Pangasinan that draws thousands of curious visitors every Christmas. Vi Corpuz, tourism officer designate here, said thousands…
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