LINGAYEN—Six batches of slightly affected drug-users already completed their rehabilitation and reformation program conducted the Provincial Reformation Center in Barangay San Vicente, Burgos. According to Carlos Resurreccion, executive officer of the Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council (PADAC), the six batches (composed of 30 drug surrenderers), underwent a four-day residential training that included…
MOTORISTS are hereby warned: Remove car tickers that bear PNP-HPG logo or suffer the consequences. The PNP Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) aired the warning after Oplan Balik Disiplina sa Kalsada (Disiplinadong Driver) campaign launched by police provincial director P/Col. Redrico Maranan and the series of operations conducted already resulted in…
BARANGAYS DRUG-CLEARED “WE were a silver awardee of the Anti-Drug Abuse Council by DILG and would not have been given this award had we not cleared many of our barangays”. This was the reaction of former Mayor Belen Fernandez to the report of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) that…
“WE are not going back to zero”. This was stressed by P/Lt. Colonel Norman Florentino, chief of the Police-Community Affairs Office of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO), referring to Dagupan City whose 31 barangays, according PDEA, have yet to be drug-cleared. Florentino told the KBP Forum last Thursday, Aug….
ANTI-ILLEGAL GAMBLING CAMPAIGN LINGAYEN– In response to the directive of President Rodrigo Duterte to close down all PCSO-sanctioned gaming schemes and all other forms of gambling, P/Col. Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, issued an order implementing a “one-strike” policy to sanction all chiefs of police if they fail to comply. …
IN compliance with the directive of President Duterte to the police to close and stop all gambling activities earlier authorized by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office and the order of P/Col. Rederico Maranan to stop all forms of illegal gambling in Pangasinan, the Villasis Police Station issued a memorandum to…
RALLYING FOR FR. SOC – Seminarians and priests move out for the procession around the city streets after a candle-lighting ceremony at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral last week to express support for Archbishop Socrates Villegas, after he was named as one of 35 being charged for sedition and cyber-libel. (Punchphoto by…
ALL the parishes in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese began to toll their church bells every 8:00 p.m. for three minutes on July 27 for “truth, justice and peace.” This was announced by Archbishop Socrates Villegas who said the tolling of the church bells in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese will be until Sept….
THE Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) confirmed in its 2018 regular water test that Pantal River, Dagupan City’s main river, is already severely polluted. EMB’s data indicated that the biochemical oxygen demand had decreased, while coliform bacteria in the river increased. Based…
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan remains the top performing province in Region 1in barangay drug-clearing operations based on data in the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s (PDEA). According to Carlos Resurreccion, executive Officer of the Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council (PADAC), the report furnished to him by Dexter Asayco, PDEA Provincial head, Pangasinan had 1,271 drug-affected…
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