CALASIAO – Flooding in the town will continue because of a still unrepaired dike in Barangay Gabon. According to Freddie Villacorta, head of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (MDRRMO), “the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed two phases in the construction of dikes from Barangay…
SAYING that only prevention can cure dengue, Dr. Ophelia Rivera, Dagupan City health officer, recommended not only the adoption of 4S and the 4 o’clock habit but also the cultivation of mosquito repellant plants in backyards and gardens. Rivera told the hearing in the Sangguniang Panlungsod presided by Councilor Jose…
THE provincial government is encouraging Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to get involved in local governance. The invitation was aired during the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Conference on August 9 at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center that gathered the top officials and representatives of federated provincial associations of CSOs. CSO…
SAVE THE SHOES — Students from Dagupan City National High School and other schools in Tapuac Road, choose to risk walking barefooted than get their shoes wet at the height of the flash flood that hit the city last week. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
LOUD MUFFLER CRACKDOWN — POSO enforcer Mark Reyes looks at the pile of loud, modified mufflers detached and seized from 300 motorcycle and tricycles as a result of the 7-day POSO operation in the city. Owners were fined P500. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
SEVEN families were left homeless in a fire that broke out in Sitio Dupax, Bonuan Gueset at about 4:00 a.m. on August 4, where one person was reportedly hurt. The residents complained that many of their properties could have been saved if the Dagupan City Fire Department had responded swiftly. Oddly,…
CONTRA-DENGUE In response to the call of the Department of Health to combat dengue epidemic, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Dagupan City began releasing mosquito fish to Pangasinan schools for restocking in their waterways as a defense against dengue-carrying mosquitoes. Westly Rosario, BFAR Dagupan center…
AS of last, forty percent of the sidewalks, mainly at the central business district in Dagupan City, has been cleared. This was bared by Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) chief Robert Christopher Erfe-Mejia in an interview Tuesday afternoon. As of last week, Erfe-Mejia said the initial focus of the…
LINGAYEN — To further promote safety in the highways and streets with the increasing number of local motorcycle riders, a draft ordinance was filed at the provincial board requiring motorcycle, bicycle riders and tricycle drivers to wear reflectorized vest when traveling around towns and cities in Pangasinan. “We cannot compromise…
BUGALLON – Mission accomplished. This was the response of the town’s government to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte order to towns and cities to reclaim public roads that are being used for private ends, an order that the Department of Interior and Local Government stressed there can be no exemption. Bugallon…
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