THE Dagupan City government is set to buy two brand new dump trucks and one backhoe for improve the waste disposal and management in the city to address the reported worsening pollution from uncollected wastes. The plan was shared by Councilor Lino Fernandez after the city’s Barangay Tapuac chairman Nelson…
WATCH out for rainy evenings beginning October. Expect the Northeast Monsoon, otherwise known as Hanging Amihan to become active in October, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), as easterlies begin to blow. Gener Quitlong of the DOST-PAGASA Agno River Basin Flood Forecasting and Warning Center…
MOTORCYCLES WITH TOP BOXES, SADDLES MOTORCYCLES riders in Pangasinan welcomed the decision of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to suspend the inspection and apprehension of motorcycle riders whose units are equipped with unregistered top boxes and saddle boxes. LTO Chief Atty. Teofilo Guadiz III issued the memorandum made public on…
THE Department of Health (DOH) listed Barangay Caranglaan in Dagupan City as one of two areas with ‘clustering’ of measles in the country. The other being Barangay Balangasan in Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur. In a report by DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire on October 5, she named the two barangays…
READY BUT NO TAKERS – A nurse from the City Health Office assigned to help manage the prepared evacuation center at the People’s Astrodome, is by her lone self, preparing a status report after TC Karding had exited and no evacuees were taken to the center. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Department of Health (DOH) has allotted P150 million for the construction and establishment of a Level 1 Mother and Child Care Hospital in Dagupan City under the Universal Health Care Program (UHCP). Speaking before the Sangguniang Panlungsod, Dr. Eric Sibayan of DOH said it is in addition to the…
THE Department of Education (DepEd) reminded local government units (LGU) that public schools in their areas should only be used as an ‘immediate’ evacuation site, and may only be used as evacuation for a period not exceeding 15 days. DepEd Order No. 37 series of 2022, issued by Vice President…
SK’S SENIOR ADVOCATE – Wearing a Sanggunian Kabataan t-shirt, 75-year-old Dagupeño Anselmo Atabis of Brgy. Calmay, presented himself to the Bakunahang Bayan Pinaslakas” for his second dose in the barangay. The city’s vaccination campaign has been making the rounds of the city’s barangays. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is continuously processing registration of citizens for their own Philsys ID. Edgar Norberte, Provincial Officer of PSA – Pangasinan, said 2.3 million individuals are already registered in their Philsys database, but less than 500,000 individuals received their National IDs (NIDs). Norberte attributed the sluggish issuance…
THE provincial government of Nueva Vizcaya has asserted its ownership anew over a large area in Barangay Malico in the land dispute with Pangasinan. Nueva Vizcaya Vice Governor Jose Gambito maintained that it based on the results of the survey by the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA). Gambito…
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