FREE HAIRCUT FOR FRONTLINERS – The Pangasinan Medical Society brought a team of haircutters to Region 1 Medical Center to service the frontliners who have not had the luxury to visit parlors and barber shops for over 45 days. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DEPUTY Speaker and Third District Rep. Rose Marie Arenas said Congress can best serve the public interest and at the same time assert its exclusive Constitutional prerogative by expediting the deliberations on the long-pending bills for the renewal of ABS-CBN’s franchise and by resolving the same once and for all….
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has appealed to the members of Congress to act swiftly on the pending renewal of the congressional franchise of network giant ABS-CBN that was ordered Tuesday by the National Telecommunications Commission to cease and desist from operating. In a statement written entirely in Filipino, Villegas, said…
WE’VE heard of virtual meetings so why not virtual flag-raising ceremony? This was exactly what the local government of Bayambang did when it held its first virtual Monday flag-raising ceremony, possibly the first to be done by a local government unit in the country prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayor…
JUST as the 27th COVID-19 patient was being released by the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan on May 6, a probable case was reported on the same day by the Mapandan’s local government. Mayor Anthony Penullar of Mapandan said the Region 1 Medical Center informed him that the…
THE 46 Pangasinenses who were stranded at the Regional Border Control Point in San Manuel (Tarlac) by the Rosales Boundary, were allowed to enter the province and were fetched by their respective local government units and municipal/city health offices on May 7. Pangasinan Provincial Police Office Director Redrico Maranan said…
THANK YOU FRONTLINERS – A corkboard inside the Region 1 Medical Center displays the many cards, notes and drawings of children expressing their gratitude to the doctors, nurses and aides for their time, courage and sacrifice for Covid-19 patients’ care and healing. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE San Carlos City government breathed a sigh of relief when family members of the police officer assigned in Camp Crame in Quezon City who tested positive of COVID-19, tested negative. The City Information Office confirmed in a statement that the wife, mother and father of the police officer who…
SOME 74 persons stranded and billeted in tents in Rosales town along the provincial boundary of San Manuel, Tarlac that were unable to enter the province and return to Metro Manila for the past 3 weeks have been receiving food and medical assistance from various local governments, Department of Social…
CONFIRMED OR SUSPECTED CASES THE Dagupan City government will pay for costs of burial or cremation of persons confirmed or suspected to have died of COVID-19 if the family of the deceased is indigent. This was contained in the resolution passed by the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during its special session…
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