IT’S ABOUT LAND-GRABBING SPECULATIONS about the sudden transfer of assignment of Dagupan police chief P/Superintendent Neil Miro to Urdaneta City were rife initially until Miro himself stated the reasons behind his immediate relief. In a radio interview by broadcaster Orly Navarro, last Saturday, Miro revealed his sudden and immediate relief…
THE Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) has a new officer-in-charge – P/Supt. Franklin Ortiz – as chief of police, vice P/Supt. Neil Miro who was re-assigned as chief of police of Urdaneta City. Ortiz, formerly with PNP’s Special Action Force (SAF), was born in Itogon, Benguet although his parents are…
THIS year’s Bangus Festival will officially start today, April 16, in a fun-filled ceremony at the Tondaligan Blue Beach. Epee R. Rafanan, 2017 Bangus Festival executive chairman, said Mayor Belen T. Fernandez will declare the formal start of the 2017 Bangus Festival with the ‘Bangus Flash Parade’ early morning along the…
LINGAYEN– This is bad news again to the shellfish farmers of Bolinao and Anda towns. The Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has issued a public advisory confirming that the shellfishes from Bolinao and Anda are already contaminated by the deadly red tide organism. The Shellfish Advisory No. 17, series…
VACATIONING families who are traveling to and from Pangasinan can be assured of 24/7 police and medical emergency assistance this summer. The Police Provincial Office (PPPO) and Pangasinan’s Provincial Disaster Risk and Reduction and Management office (PDRRMO) have began deploying personnel along the province’s main highways and in popular tourist…
THOUSANDS of devotees began crowding Manaoag, acknowledged to be the biggest pilgrimage center in the Philippines, since Maundy Thursday with the crowd swelling to up to one million through Easter Sunday. The center of devotion was the Basilica Minore of Lady of Manaoag atop a hill where the ivory image of…
PDEA SET TO VALIDATE REPORT LINGAYEN—While reports from the ground operatives in the war on drugs indicate that about 75 percent of barangays in Region 1 are already drug-cleared, the oversight committee led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intends to validate the submitted data given the new guidelines…
NO TURNING BACK! — Exulting in her progressive and honest governance, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez stands between the members of the Sanggunian Panlungsod and the city government employees as she delivers her State of the City Address on her second term as city’s chief executive in a simple ceremony at the city plaza. …
STATE OF THE CITY “DAGUPAN is not turning back, not now, not ever.” This was the battle cry for the city articulated by City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez when she delivered her State of the City Address (SOCA) before the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), city hall employees and residents at the…
FOR THE BOODLE FIGHT –Volunteers prepare the long line of food for the Longest Picnic after establishing the record for the Longest Line (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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