A WALK and mass for Clean, Honest, Accountable, Meaningful and Peaceful (CHAMP) for the May 13 elections was organized by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) last Monday. P/Col. Wilson Joseph Lopez, police provincial director, said opposing candidates in Dagupan, as well as Pangasinan 4th District Rep. Christopher…

LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas urges his flock to be critical and Godly voters in the May 13 mid-term elections. In his pastoral message issued on April 28, Villegas also told the faithful in his archdiocese to “ to bring your faith as you choose”. Villegas said voters have the duty…

THREE search warrants were conducted in Pangasinan upon the assumption of office of P/Brig. Gen. Joel Orduña, acting police regional director. Orduña took over as Acting-Police Regional Office 1 director from P/Brigadier General Romulo Sapitula who retired from the service, during a turnover ceremony at Camp Oscar Florendo in La Union…

LINGAYEN–Sixty policemen and four local mediamen in Pangasinan cast their votes early in the local absentee voting held at the Pangasinan Police Command here on April 30 for the May 13 elections. Lawyer Eric Oganiza, officer-in-charge provincial election supervisor that April 30 was Pangasinan’s schedule for those qualified to vote…

THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) warned the public anew about health risks and common diseases brought about by extreme heat during summer time. PHO Nurse Rhodalia Binay-an reiterated PHO’s advisory to take precautionary measures against diseases that are viral, i.e., sunburn, sore eyes, cough and colds, food and water-borne diseases,…

OPPOSITION senatorial candidate Samira Gutoc expressed apprehension over the plan of Facebook to introduce a dating application for its users in the Philippines. “What I fear is trafficking, a Filipina being used to go abroad and something bad will happen to women or children with the use of the internet,”…

LINGAYEN—Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) has claimed 19 lives and 3,614 fell ill in Pangasinan since January based on the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (PESU) report of the Provincial Health Office here as of April 29. A report prepared by Rodhalia Binay-an, PESU nurse coordinator, showed the following towns had one victim…

SOME 500 officials and employees at the Dagupan City government came out as volunteers at the Tondaligan Blue Beach in Bonuan Gueset on April 26 for a cleanup activity. The volunteers were composed of city hall employees and department heads led by City Administrator Atty. Farah Decano, Department of Education…