BIGGEST DRUG HAUL IN REGION 1 SOME P2.5 billion pesos worth of suspected shabu were seized in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pozorrubio on Friday, August 12, where four persons, one of them a Chinese national, were arrested. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva,…

ONE OF PHILIPPINES’ BEST THE national flag in all government offices and schools in Pangasinan were flown at half-mast as a sign of mourning for the demise of former President Fidel V. Ramos. Governor Ramon Guico III issued Executive Order (EO) No. 0109 on July 31 mandating the Philippine flag to…

JULY 27 MAGNITUDE 5 EARTHQUAKE GOV. Ramon Guico III reported that Pangasinan sustained only minimal damage from the Magnitude 5 earthquake that rocked the province in the early morning of July 27, and that only one person was injured and no casualty was recorded in any part of Pangasinan. This was…

BARANGAYS TOLD TO PREPARE LISTS THE Fernandez administration in Dagupan City appears determined to clear the city’s rivers of illegal fish pens many of which are oversized and constructed along navigational lanes. This became evident after Mayor Belen Fernandez had a consultation meeting with seven  barangay chairmen under whose jurisdictions…

ACTIVE COVID-19 cases further rose from 95 to 322 in Region 1 last week, 165 of which were from Pangasinan and Dagupan City, according to the latest monitoring as of July 13 of the Department of Health (DOH) regional office. At the Kapihan sa Ilocos on July 14, Dr. Rhuel…

NO POLITICAL REORGANIZATION OFFICIALS and employees of  provincial government heaved a sigh of relief after Governor Ramon Guico III told them during his first flag ceremony at the capitol grounds that reorganization based on politics is not his cup of tea. “We would like to roll our sleeves and get…

MORE NEW INVESTMENTS SEEN PANGASINENSES can look forward to a more progressive province with more economic opportunities and benefits for them. This capsulized the vision of Governor Ramon Guico III in his inaugural address before local officials after he was sworn into office by Presiding Judge Harriet Cabreros of the…

HITMEN RIDING-IN-TANDEM ARE BACK CRIMINALS riding in tandem struck again, killing the president of the Lingayen-Dagupan Transport Cooperative whose fleet of modernized vehicles are among those giving Libreng Sakay to commuters to and from Dagupan daily. The ambush happened 7:15 p.m. on June 23 in Lingayen town at the corner…

AFTER FIVE DAYS OF BUCK-PASSING AFTER initially refusing to receive on June 10 the approved 2022 budget ordinance, the office of outgoing Mayor Brian Lim had a change of heart and decided to receive it five days later on June 15. The 1st endorsement – “Respectfully forwarded to the Honorable City…

DAGUPAN’S REENACTED BUDGET TO END THE Sangguniang Panlungsod finally passed Dagupan City’s 2022 P1.380 billion annual budget unanimously but not without an attempt by the minority to append to the approved budget what it referred to as a “Minority Report”. Ordinance No. 2244-2022, authorizing the annual budget of the City…