FIRECRACKER DESTROYERS – Two police officers dump into the drum of water various types of banned firecrackers seized by the Pangasinan PNP at the PPPO ground to safely and securely destroy them. (Punchphoto by Nora Dominguez)
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PANGASINAN PNP arrested six persons and confiscated more than P500,000 worth of more than 200,000 pieces of various types of illegal firecrackers during raids of illegal manufacturing shops of banned firecrackers in Dagupan City and from different vendor stalls in the province after positive test buys. According to Police Colonel…
PNP seize 200k banned firecrackers
ASKING relatives and friends, “How are you today?” helps establish identify symptoms of mental illness, mainly depression. This was recommended by Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia in his speech during he inauguration of the new building of the Philippine Mental Health Association (PMHA-Pangasinan chapter) in Dagupan City after acknowledging…
Cases of depression increasing in Pangasinan
RIVER CRUISE IS BACK — Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim leads city officials on a river cruise during the soft re-launching of the Dawel River Cruise started in 2012 by former Mayor Benjamin Lim. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
RIVER CRUISE IS BACK
THE Dawel River Cruise introduced by then Mayor Benjamin Lim in 2012 has been relaunched. To promote the soft relaunch of the cruise, on December 27, the Dagupan City government here has offered the cruise for tourists and residents for free. According to City Tourism Officer Rose Teng-Mejia, the…
Dagupan’s Dawel River Cruise is back
HOG raisers in four barangays in Bayambang town whose pigs were affected by the African Swine Fever (ASF) received financial assistance through an indemnification fund of the municipal government before 2019 ended. On December 22, Bayambang Mayor Cezar Quiambao and Abono party-list Rep. Conrado Estrella III and representatives from the…
Hog raisers in Bayambang receive indemnification fund
SIMBANG GABI – The St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City has been the main venue for the thousands of devotees of the traditional 9-day novena in preparation for the birth of Baby Jesus (Simbang Gabi). (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SIMBANG GABI
SPECIAL SESSION ON A SATURDAY IN a special session called by Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim on December 23, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed Draft Ordinance No. 0-734 approving the annual budget of the Dagupan City government for Calendar Year 2020 in the amount of P1,090,000,000. Sponsored by Minority Floor…
Dagupan OKs P1.09-B annual budget for 2020
THE Pangasinan Provincial Health Office already failed in its campaign for zero-firecracker casualty barely 48 hours after it declared its mission. A nine-year old boy in Barangay Turac, San Carlos City was rushed to the hospital after a ‘kwitis’ exploded in his face. Dr. Anna Teresa de Guzman, provincial health…
PHO records first firecracker victim in San Carlos City
IT will be Code Red in all provincial government hospitals on December 31 and January 1. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Anna De Guzman said the 14 hospitals are fully equipped and ready for firecracker-related injuries including a provision for ‘fast lanes’ for firecracker-related injuries. “We have prepared enough logistics, including…
