COVID OR NO COVID SINCE the elections on May 9, 2022 will push through, registration of new voters must continue. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas told the KBP Virtual Forum on October 28 that the registration of voters continues in all municipal and city election offices in the province despite…
FOR STUDENTS IN NEED THE Pangasinan State University (PSU) here has forged a partnership with 26 towns and cities to help students having problems with online learning and those who have no means to acquire essential gadgets. University President Dr. Dexter Buted said some 26 towns and cities are now…
REMEMBERING LOLO BEFORE NOV. 1 – The two sisters remember to honor their grandfather at the memorial park in Dagupan City before it closes this week in compliance with IATF protocol for All Souls Day. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (C.O.D.E.) recently held extensive testing in Pangasinan as part of the Test, Trace, Treat (TTT) strategy to detect COVID-19 cases. Director Pebbles Duque of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), said CODE involves close coordination between and among various…
THE Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) reported that 123 policemen have since tested positive for COVID-19 but only 12 remain active cases, as of Oct. 21. P/Colonel Jessiemyr Protacio, chief of the Regional Health Service 1, said 111 had recovered. The Administrative Support for COVID-19 Task Force Monitoring of the…
ALARMED by police reports that rape cases increased during the period of the pandemic, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed an ordinance for the establishment of a gender-based and risk-based protocol in handling gender-based violence cases against women in Pangasinan. An emotional Fifth District Board Member Grace Rosary Perez-Tababa had appealed to…
JOB order employees, consultants, contractual and other employees hired in January will be given P2,500 worth of assistance by the provincial government to help them cope with difficulties during the pandemic. This was contained in Provincial Resolution No. 1649, series of 2020 approved during October 19 virtual session of the…
QR CODE TO ENTER DAGUPAN – A car passenger shows a police officer at the city’s border checkpoint her QR code on her phone to show that she has complied with the entry protocol of the city government. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE imposition of critical zones in 11 residential compounds in three barangays of Calasiao was lifted in separate memorandums of Mayor Joseph Arman Bauzon on October 14. However, four households in Barangay Buenlag North were recommended to the local Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) and concurrence…
TWO new COVID-19 cases were logged in in Lingayen last week but one died two days before the result of his RT-PCR could be known that he tested positive. The fatality who died on October 12 and didn’t know that he was positive for COVID-19 was a 71-year-old man from…
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