ARE WE IN TROUBLE? – Dagupan City Councilor Dennis Canto appears to mull the question during city council’s regular session as he takes a hard look at last week’s headline of The PUNCH about the ordinance allowing more Bulacan bangus into the city, The news eventually triggered emotional exchanges in…
NO CITY HALL TRANSFER DAGUPAN City Mayor Brian Lim will not pursue the plan of the Belen Fernandez administration to transfer the city’s government center from its present location in the Central Business District (CBD) to an area along the Pantal-Lucao Growth Center. Instead, Lim is seeking the reversion of P100…
November 6, 1963 Karina, my darling daughter: We are all here for the big day tomorrow. In a little more than a couple of hours, it will be Thursday, November 7—your twelfth birthday anniversary. It is now ten minutes past nine, and as I write this in my office I…
ELEVEN towns have new chief of police after a reshuffling was effected by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office. The new chiefs of police are P/ Lt. Col Joseph Fajardo (Calasiao), P/Lt. Col. Franklin Ortiz (Malasiqui), P/Capt. Rowel Albano (Mabini), P/Capt. Jervel Rillorta (Sta. Maria) P/Capt. Renato Gacad (San Nicolas) P/Capt….
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported an increase in number of mosquito-borne dengue cases in Pangasinan, from 7,376 to 7,942 over the same period January to Oct. 28 last year. Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, PHO chief, however pointed out that the death toll so far this year is…
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) confirmed that there are 97 confirmed cases of HIV in Pangasinan recorded from Jan. to June this year, but clarifies the victims may be or may not be in the province. According to Kenneth Dacion, PHO HIV-AIDS program coordinator, PHO no longer traces victims in…
VIGILANCE AT CHECKPOINT – A member of the Dagupan City Public Order and Safety Office stops a truck for detailed inspection of its cargo to enforce the ban on entry of hogs into Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
1-KM ASF RADIUS PROTOCOL “WHERE are the more than 500 hogs from some 900 identified in a house to house census conducted within one kilometer radius from ground zero in Barangay Apalen, Bayambang?” This was the question Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario asked during the Talakayan sa Kapitolyo program…
LINGAYEN–The city of Dagupan, and La Union, have been chosen among the pilot areas for the implementation of the Universal Health Care (UHC) law or Republic Act No. 1123 signed into law by President Duterte in March this year and whose Implementing Rules and Regulations were signed by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III…
DECIDING THE FATE OF DAGUPAN BANGUS – Stakeholders of the bangus industry lobby for their accreditation and quota for the right to sell bangus from various sources during the final hearing of the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committees. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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