SUPPORT FOR WAR ON DRUGS LINGAYEN—The provincial government is looking forward to the start of the operation of the drug rehabilitation center in Barangay San Vicente, Burgos, with the expected early completion of the construction facility. In his State of the Province Address (SOPA) during a special session of the…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez has ordered P/Superintendent Franklin Ortiz, the city police chief, to revalidate the status of barangays in the city already declared as drug-cleared by his predecessor. Fernandez gave the order during a meeting of the City Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) and officials of the Treatment and…
LINGAYEN— Police teams are validating and continue to revalidate the drug situations in all barangays. This was the directive of P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Oliver Lee, police provincial director, as he confirmed that the seven towns they earlier declared as drug-free, only the status of Sto. Tomas and Laoac were retained….
PAF HELICOPTER CRASH LINGAYEN— He sent a photo of him while airborne to his wife with a view of “heaven” two hours taken before the Philippine Air Force (PAF) chopper crashed in Tanay, Rizal last May 4. On hindsight, the wife realized it was like a premonition about his death….
ANOTHER GUINNESS TITLE — Sto. Tomas folks are all eyes on the drone flying above them documenting their town’s bid for the Guinness Longest Table Line last April 2, 2017. On Wednesday, Mayor Timoteo Villar III received an email from the Guinness records management team that the town won the record title. (Punchphoto…
LONGEST PICNIC LINE STO. TOMAS—This town has proven once more that being small is not a terrible thing but a terrific thing because it can accomplish anything it sets out to do. This time, it clinched another Guinness World Record (GWR) title: The Longest Line of Tables. In an e-mail…
NO ILLEGAL GAMBLING OPERATION? SAN CARLOS CITY—The prosecutor here dismissed the complaint filed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against 57 persons they arrested for alleged illegal jai-alai operation in Urbiztondo town this province. In a four-page resolution dated May 4, signed by Inquest Prosecutor Gil Rosario, by authority…
MERIEDIEN EMPLOYEES ARRESTED URBIZTONDO— The government is finally closing in on illegal gambling in Pangasinan. Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) filed raided a jai-alai off-fronton betting betting station in Rizal St., Barangay Poblacion this town and arrested 58 persons in the premises. The arrested individuals includes the…
LIMGAS NA PANGASINAN 2017 -– Miss Labrador’s Anie Uson (center), this year’s pick as Limgas na Pangasinan, is joined by 1st runner-up Sta. Barbara’s Ivy Lou Borbon (2nd from left), 2nd runner-up Binamley’s Marikit Manaois (2nd from right), 3rd runner-up Mangaldan’s Jane Flodine Espiritu (left), and 4th runner-up Pozorrubio’s Trixie…
IT’S all systems go for Dagupan City. This was underscored by Mayor Belen Fernandez when she returned from the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) with the copy of approval of the of the Dagupan’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and its accompanying zoning plan. Fernandez, accompanied by other…
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