ARMED with a search warrant, the Dagupan City Police raided an illegal firecracker factory in Sitio Boquig, Barangay Bacayao Norte in Dagupan City that resulted in the arrest of the house owner and seizure of assorted illegal firecrackers. Authorities said five thousand pieces different types of banned fireworks were found…
YOUNG ADDICTS IN DRUG DEN– The five drug users caught inside the drug den await their turn to be processed by the PNP-PDEA team that raided the house in Sta. Barbara town. (Punchphoto by Ahikam Pasion)
JOINT anti-drug operatives arrested a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation and four drug users caught inside the drug den operating inside a subdivision in Barangay Minien West, Sta. Barbara late Monday night. The operation, conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 (PDEA-RO1) and the Pangasinan Police…
NO SHOW– Dagupan City Councilors Karlos Reyna IV (presiding pro tempore), Marcelino Fernandez, Teresa Coquia, Dennis Canto. Jose Netu Tamayo, and Marvin Fabia wait for the members of the finance committee to appear during an en banc hearing called by the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Finally, no one appeared in the absence…
ALERT RAISED LINGAYEN–Some 300,000 children in Pangasinan aged zero to 10 years, constituting 2.7 percent of the province’s three million population have not been inoculated with vaccines against many preventable diseases. This was reveled by Dr. Anna Maria Teresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, as she attributed it to the…
THE lawyer of the Pablicos family that donated a 7,000 sq. m. property to the Dagupan City government in 2018 slammed the article reported by Ms. Yolanda Sotelo that appeared in the December 3, 2019 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer for insinuating that the donated land was taken back by…
UNFAIR REPORTING “IN the spirit of balanced reporting, I would like to air my side.” This was stressed by former Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez in her letter to Robert Jaworski Abaño, online editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a reaction to the published story (print and online) on…
EARLY SEAG WINNER — Agatha Fernandez Wong happily spreads out the flag behind her after she received her first gold medal at the 30th SEA Games held in New Clark City. (GMANetwork.com)
AGATHA Wong. That was the name that was flashed on TV screens, smartphones and laptops after winning her first wushu match. A replay of her first match and subsequent match easily earned her loyal fans who were awed by her skill as much as her beautiful face. The pictures of…
A CHINESE tanker vessel is stranded off the coast of Barangay Patar in Bolinao since December 8. P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial Director, confirmed that the vessel stopped at 7:50 pm of December 8 on the coast of Bolinao. The Bolinao Police Station led by Police Major Dennis Cabigat, police chief,…
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