LINGAYEN— The 21 reformed drug personalities from Binmaley town who surrendered completed the rehabilitation program at the Pangasinan Reformation Center (PRC). The fourth batch of reformers were welcomed at the PRC on January 22 by OIC Center Administrator Eugenie Guiang, and PDRRMO chief Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, leader of the center’s…
THE Dagupan City Diagnostic Center, another first in the city under the administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez, is set to open to residents by the first week of February. Dr. Ophelia Rivera, city health officer, told the KBP Forum on January 24 that the manpower component for the center and the…
IT is not the end of the world for men and women diagnosed and found positive of Human Immuno Virus (HIV). They can lead normal lives like anyone. This was the assurance made by Dagupan Councilor Dennis Canto, chairman on public health of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during the the KBP…
COMELEC CHECKPOINT — Members of Dagupan City Police Station set up and man a checkpoint in Barangay Lucao Sunday morning to implement the Comelec’s gun ban and enforce stricter security at the start of midterm election period. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan asked the Civil Service Commission to deny the attestation of the appointment of Dr. Dexter Buted for a second term as president of the Pangasinan State University (PSU). Provincial Resolution No. 2124-2019 proposed by Board Member Agerico Jeremy Rosario said Buted has been reappointed as PSU president…
THE hosting of the National Schools Press Conference at the Pangasinan National High School on January 29-30 will not be hampered by the fire incident that burnt two rooms of the 24-year-old Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) building on Monday evening. Elvira Viray, PNHS principal, said the 90% of preparations…
THE students from the University of Rhode Island in USA who arrived in Pangasinan for a 20-day educational tour to study the best aquaculture practices in the province left last week fully impressed by what they were exposed to. The 10 students who arrived on January 1 led by their…
” WALA po akong kasalanan sa taongbayan” This was stressed by former Senator Jinggoy Estrada in a meeting with the city’s barangay officials at the City Museum on January 16 in his whirlwind stopover in Dagupan City. Estrada was referring to the case filed against him before the Ombudsman over…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) belied a viral post on Facebook about presence of “Mananabas” roaming in villages in Dasol town and Alaminos City. P/Sr. Inspector Ria Tacderan, information officer of PPPO, said there was no hacking incident recorded in Dasol and Alaminos City, nor a sighting of “Mananabas”…
WHILE many towns in Pangasinan have already been declared “drug-cleared”, Dagupan is still waiting to be declared as drug-cleared too. According to P/Sr. Inspector Madonna Cabiles, deputy police chief of Dagupan, the validation and the granting of status as ‘drug-cleared’ will have to be issued by the regional office of…
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