NEW YEAR’S DAY ROUND-UP LINGAYEN- Some crime suspects wanted by the police did not have time to pack and hide after their New Year’s revelry. The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) did not let up in their campaign to nab the wanted persons where they can. Two suspects were arrested…
TRADITIONAL HIGH NOON REVELRY SINCE 2007, New Year Revelry in Dagupan does not end at past 12 midnight of January 1. Residents, visitors and tourists troop to the city’s Barangay Pogo Grande for the barangay’s traditional simultaneous lighting of thousands of firecrackers, 110,000 to be exact, at 12 noon of January 1….
MAYOR’S MESSAGE NO Filipino as yet has surpassed the rare talent and qualities of the national hero, Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal, who is also being hailed as pride of the Malay race. This was pointed out by Mayor Belen Fernandez during the observance of the 119th Rizal death anniversary held at…
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE THE drug lords, corrupt local officials and recidivists in Pangasinan were among those especially targeted by the special Christmas message of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, PDP-Laban’s standard bearer in 2016 elections. “Huling Christmas na ito ng mga kurakot at kriminal. Sa susunod na taon, magpapasko silang lahat…
VM LIM REJECTS SPECIAL SESSION IF the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) again fails to approve the city’ 2016 budget when it meets on the first week of January 2016, the city government will have no choice but to operate on a reenacted budget. A last ditch effort of Mayor Belen…
FIRECRACKER LANE—Children rush to a view the array of firecrackers on display in one of the stands along the firecracker lane on a sidewalk of Burgos Street in Dagupan in front of the West Central School, safely away from the market and the central business district. The firecracker lane was set…
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) and the Pangasinan Provincial Office (PPH), including its latter’s satellite hospitals, are ready to receive and treat persons who suffer burns or lose fingers from firecracker explosions during the New Year revelry. This was assured by R1MC and PPH officials even as firecracker zones are…
BRIGHT AND HOLY CHRISTMAS — The St. John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral, the seat of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese illuminates cathedral grounds during the Christmas eve mass on Dec. 24, 2015 (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
A DNA test has confirmed that blue mussels along the Brazilian and Columbian coasts of South America, that traversed the Panama Canal to become established in the tropical Eastern Pacific, have reached Dagupan’s coastal waters. Dr. Michael Rice, a professor of the Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences at…
LINGAYEN – In what was his last Christmas party with the provincial government’s employees last week at the Capitol Plaza before he bows out of office in 2016, Gov. Amado T. Espino was profuse in thanking them for their support. “It’s been an honor and pleasure serving our provincial government and…
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