THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan directed the suspension of all barangay fiestas including Sangguniang Kabataan activities in the province amid the COVID-19 crisis. Board Member Jose G. Peralta, Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial Federation president, author of Resolution No. 314-2020, said the directive forms part of the precautionary measures adopted by the…
LINGAYEN Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil was found negative of COVID-19 when he submitted himself to a confirmation test at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) after a Fil-Aussie woman whom he met at a class reunion in Dagupan City tested positive. Bataoil was one of the 150 persons who had a close…
THREE persons in Pangasinan, all of whom have history of travel and showed respiratory symptoms, were admitted and placed in isolation as Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) in still undisclosed hospitals in the province. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said two PUIs are Overseas Filipino Workers (one was a…
PATRIOTISM FIRST, FIRE PREVENTION SECOND – This clearly is the message being conveyed by the Panda Fire Volunteers of Dagupan City, composed mostly of Chinoy residents, when they joined the Fire Prevention Month observance with a fire truck parade around the city. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
IN CONSPIRACY WITH DENR? UNSCRUPULOUS persons have started to take claims over large tracts of public lands on both sides of the still uncompleted Daang Kalaikasan in Mangatarem. Mangatarem Mayor Ramil Ventenilla reported the obtaining situation in the area when he spoke before the Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
THE Bureau of Fire Protection (PFP) in Pangasinan revealed that while there were 85 fires in the first two months this year compared to 84 for the same period last year, there were lesser structural fires. F/Supt. Noel Gagalac, provincial fire marshal, told the KBP Forum on Thursday that the number…
PRE-FIRE PREVENTION MONTH TO say that the month of March is “Fire Prevention Month” already sounds satirical to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Dagupan City that has already responded to 10 grassfires and one residential fire incident in this city and other neighboring towns in the first two…
EFFORTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pangasinan to focus on high-value targets (HVT) have already resulted in the arrests of 20 known HVTs, and seizure of half-kilogram of shabu and more than five kilograms of marijuana from January to February alone. PDEA Pangasinan team leader Retchie Camacho…
AS of March 4, 2020, Ilocos Region remains free of COVID-19 cases after 13 persons earlier categorized as Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) and placed under isolation were eventually cleared when their laboratory tests proved negative. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, medical officer IV of the Department of Health in Region 1, told the…
EVEN as culling of African Swine Fever-infected hogs has slowed down in Pangasinan, the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) recommended the total lockdown of affected piggeries in towns/cities in order to protect the remaining hog population from getting infected by the disease. This was gleaned from a memo-report of Dr. Jovito…
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