CITY HALL DENIES, NIFTDC CONFIRMS ONLY people pretending to be blind, will say there are no more fish pens in the waters of Dagupan City. No less than Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Center (NIFTDC) based in the city, confirmed that fish pens have returned…
LINGAYEN–Pangasinan continued its domination in Region 1 by bagging four more Hall of Fame awards from the Regional Development Council (RDC). The categories cited as Hall of Fame awardees for winning three consecutive years (2010- 2012) are: Best Performing LGU (Local Government Unit) in Local Governance; Best Millennium Development Goals…
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan recently received a P4million-worth of project grant an incentive for being one of the Top Rice-Producing Provinces, an award given the Department of Agriculture (DA). The DA recognition came just after the province recently won a Hall of Fame award from the Regional Development Council for Local Government Practice…
APPRECIATING R1MC EXPANSION—President Benigno Aquino III happily leads the entourage of guests in viewing the improvements inside the newly constructed Emergency Room of the Region1 Medical Center. Accompanying the President are 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia, Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, Alaminos City Mayor Nani Braganza, R1MC chief Dr….
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III led the formal inauguration of the Dagupan City-based Region 1 Medical Center’s (R1MC) new emergency room complex on March 15. The new complex, aside from providing treatment to emergency cases, is also designed to be more responsive to victims of disasters, terrorism, and contagious diseases.
42 SHOOTING INCIDENTS SINCE JANUARY GRASSROOTS intelligence will be strengthened by the police as it aims to neutralize guns-for hire who are behind most of the shooting incidents in the province. P/Sr. Supt. Marlou Chan, officer-in-charge of the Pangasinan police, reported in a media forum last week that 42 shooting…
PNP ALERT UP IN 9 TOWNS, 4 CITIES NINE municipalities and three of the four cities in the province have been listed by the police as “priority areas of concern” in the May 13 elections given the intense political rivalry and history of violence in past two elections. Senior Superintendent…
STILL NO DEPED, DOH APPROVAL THE planned Maternal Child Care and Lying Clinic of the Dagupan City government will pass through the eye of the needle before it can be granted a permit to operate by the Department of Health (DOH), according to Dr. Roland Mejia, chief of the Region…
WHO’S BEHIND THE PROLIFERATION OF FISH PENS—Whatever happened to the Dagupan City government’s touted policy of zero tolerance for fish pens implemented by Mayor Benjamin Lim when he assumed post three years ago? Fish pens such as these captured by PUNCHlens photo last March 7 have started to again mushroom at…
LINGAYEN—The war is now on Facebook. Re-electionist Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and his opponent Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza have taken their political rivalry on the internet using their respective accounts on social media site Facebook. Espino recently posted in his account what he claims to be the attempts of…
© 2026 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
