FLOOD IN THE CITY–Motorists slowly negotiate the flooded highway in Mayombo, Dagupan City Thursday soon after floodwaters began to rise in the southern and eastern parts of the city. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka) Back to Homepage
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WHILE the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Center (PDRRMC) was busy assuring local government officials of the absence of any impending threat of water releases from the San Roque Dam, an anonymous group was busy trying to cause panic by circulating a rumor about a “warning text message” purportedly…
Text about San Roque Dam a hoax – Espino
LINGAYEN –The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will deploy its own men to augment the police personnel assigned to guard the Barangay and SK elections in Pangasinan during on Monday. According to Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte, police provincial director, 147 army soldiers will be deployed in the province during the…
Army men beef up PNP force in polls
DAGUPAN City is the only community in the province that has not been placed in a state of calamity. “The present situation of our city does not warrant the declaration of a state of calamity.” Thus said Mayor Benjamin Lim following the decision of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Pangasinan to…
No state of calamity in Dagupan City
READY FOR “JUAN”–Governor Amado Espino Jr. describes the extent of preparations made by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMS) a day before Typhoon “Juan” barreled through the north. With Espino are Police Provincial Director Rosueto Ricaforte and Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka) Back…
READY FOR “JUAN”
NOT even the next typhoon expected to hit the province will precipitate the release of a huge volume of water from the San Roque Dam. Gov. Amado Espino Jr made this assurance based on the updates he has been receiving regularly from officials of the dam.
Espino: San Roque Dam not a threat today
KANGKONG IS BETTER –A young boy and his sister gamely gather kangkong sprouts at the height of the typhoon early Tuesday morning in an area near their shanty for the family’s next meal while other evacuees lined up for relief goods.(Punch photo by Willy Lomibao). Back to Homepage
KANGKONG IS BETTER
Dagupan City (20 October, 12:30pm)–The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported some 2,106 families or 8,815 persons in the province including two post-partum mothers were evacuated Monday to safer grounds and evacuation centers that were amply supplied with food and medicines.
Update: Typhoon Juan
A RECLAMATION along the Calmay River continues despite the cancellation by the Environmental Management Bureau of the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) it earlier issued to the 888 Dagupan Properties Corporation in August 5, 2008 and the city government has not acted to stop it.
EMB to BSL: Stop illegal reclamation along Calmay River
ANDA–Some 40 metric tons of bangus (milkfish) died in a new fishkill that broke out on October 11 at the Caquipotan Channel. The fishkill, according to the Dagupan-based National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), was spawned by the occurrence of neap tide, which caused the water in the Caquipotan…
