POZORRUBIO – A fifteen-year-old boy here playing basketball with friends in the neighborhood’s court died after he lost his balance running after the ball and fell by a parked kuliglig. John Imbat’s accidental fall became fatal when his throat hit the kuliglig’s handle. According to P/Major Rommel Bagsic, Pozorrubio PNP…
THE Dagupan City Police has began planning for the implementation of a security plan for the peaceful observance of Undas on November 1. Lieutenant Colonel Abubakar Mangelen, Dagupan City chief of police, said all Dagupan PNP personnel, SWAT operatives, and motorcycle operatives will be deployed to secure seven cemeteries, churches,…
FIREFIGHTERS ON THE JOB – Firefighters train a hose on a stall during mop-up operations of the blaze that razed 17 stalls to the ground. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
DAGUPAN firefighters’ mettle were tested to the limit, as two fire incidents hit the city in one day and in which a senior citizen died in one. The first incident, according to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Dagupan, happened at around 3 a.m. when the ancestral house of Mario…
SEVENTEEN dry-goods stalls on Nueva St. Barangay 2 and 3 were razed to the ground Thursday afternoon. Fire officer IV Marcelo Meneses Jr., fire chief of Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Dagupan, said the fire started in the stall owned by Mary Nardo. Investigation showed Nardo was awaken by shouts…
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Ilocos regional field office has awarded outstanding Pangasinan parent-leaders and groups of Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) and among them are from Balungao town. Marcelo Nicomedes Castillo, DSWD-1 regional director said his field office was the first to give awards as part…
LINGAYEN – The municipal government opened its improved Lingayen Public Library as eLibrary on October 10! Lingayenenses can avail of research online, assessment for the Alternative Learning System (ALS) exam, and other EduSkills software by TECH4ED for free. The software provides information needs of all sectors of the society in…
GOVERNOR Amado I. Espino III will sign the amendment letter to the memorandum of agreement earlier entered into and signed between the Province of Pangasinan and the Philippine Business for Social Progress, Inc. for the intensification of tuberculosis control program in the province. The Pangasinan provincial board unanimously approved Provincial…
ESPINO JR. AMBUSHCADE EXACTLY a month after the attempt on the life of former Congressman Amado Espino Jr. on September 11, his would-be assassins are still at large, though 12 of them have already been identified in cases filed by Special Investigation Task Group Espino Jr. before the City Prosecutors’…
LINGAYEN –The provincial health office (PHO) has recorded two cases of deaths by meningococcemia: one in Basista and the other in Bayambang. Dr. Ana Teresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, said while these are merely suspected cases, it is considered clinically confirmed and a confirmation report from the Research Institute…
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