TIDAL FLOODING IN THE CITY—A father and son ride their ‘padyak’ trike through the tidal flood in Barangay Bacayao Norte to get home. The barangay is one of the areas now regularly that get flooded with each tidal rise in the city. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
EARTHQUAKE RESCUE DRILL—Volunteers of the emergency response and rescue team of Dagupan City’s Disaster Coordinating Council go through the drill of assisting an ‘injured victim’ who was carried out from a damaged school building. The mock drill was staged at the West Central Elementary School. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back…
OVER UNABATED KILLINGS LINGAYEN–Sixth district Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr., in a privilege speech delivered Monday, has raised an alarm over the deteriorating peace and order situation in the province given the high number of killings. Bince said there were 16 victims of violent killings within the period June to…
SAN CARLOS CITY–The five-man fact-finding committee formed by the city mayor here to probe a missing P9-million public fund corroborates the finding of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) that cashier-designate Leny Fermin is behind the crime. In a 16-page report submitted to Mayor Julier Resuello on July 16, the…
MALASIQUI–Former Vice Governor Oscar Lambino, a native of this town, has questioned the legality of the lease contract entered into by the municipal government led by Mayor Armando Domantay with the Magic Group of Companies over a prime property beside the municipal hall. Lambino said the contract is based on…
WITH the rash of violent shooting incidents in Pangasinan perpetrated by men riding in tandem on a motorbike, the provincial board is mulling an ordinance seeking to impose a curfew for motorcycle tandem-riders. Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. said he is now drafting an ordinance banning motorcycle tandem-riding along the…
VILLASIS–Members of the Celis family -two of whom were killed while two others were wounded are among the latest victims of a worsening crime wave in the province on July 14 in Barangay Barangobong here. Police Chief Insp. Jeff Fanged, Villasis chief of police, identified the fatalities as Ferdinand Celis,…
1990 QUAKE AFTERMATH UNITY, resiliency and the undying spirit of Dagupeños brought forth the city’s rise from the rubble of the Intensity 7.7 killer earthquake that struck in 1990. Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., then the vice mayor when the killer quake struck 19 years ago, hailed the city citizens “fighting…
WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE PROVINCE?—Board member Alfonso Bince Jr. appears to take P/Sr. Supt. Percival Barba, police provincial director, to task but the latter appears unperturbed during the Pangasinan Press Club’s Engkwentro sa Lenox Hotel in Dagupan City last Wednesday. At left is Police Regional Director Ramon Gatan with Board…
CONTROVERSIAL CHECKS—The controversial Land Bank of the Philippines checks, one for P9 million and another for P2 million public funds under the account of the San Carlos government, which were allegedly encashed illegally. Recommendation for the filing of charges against three treasury officers and a Land Bank employee has been…
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