TOROTOT, NOT FIRECRACKER – The children in Brgy. Malued play with the toy trumpets provided by the Bureau of Fire and Protection Region 1 to encourage them to use it to welcome the New Year instead of firecrackers. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
LAND Transportation Office in the Pangasinan is set to strictly enforce traffic laws starting January 7 after implementing preemptive measures during the holiday season. Lawyer Teofilo Guadiz III, LTO regional director, said LTO stressed this after the agency adopted a lenient policy during the holiday break and merely sought to…
AFTER issuing his Christmas message titled “Stand up for the newborn Jesus”, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas gave local media copies of his ”letter” to his godson named Seth on New Year’s Eve which he titled “Be Careful Against Many Anti- Christs.” Villegas wrote “nothing is easy these days when it…
ZERO-FIRE IN PANGASINAN URDANETA CITY—A record of sorts was established in Pangasinan when not a single house was set on fire by firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices during and after 2019 New Year revelry, according to the provincial fire marshal. F/Superintendent Eddie Jucutan attributed the positive development to the successful information…
ALAMINOS CITY—Employees of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources have been working overtime to enable a female blind rough-toothed dolphin that was stranded in the coastal water of Tobuan, Labrador in Dec. 22, to swim out to the sea on its own. In a Dec. 27 report to BFAR…
STUDENTS of Pangasinan do not know it yet but they are now being protected and stand to benefit from the Anti-Hazing law authored by Fourth District Christopher de Venecia. De Venecia sponsored House Bill No. 6573, a proposed act prohibiting hazing and regulating other forms of initiation rites of fraternities, sororities and…
NOT only police chiefs in the region have been reshuffled in their assignments but provincial election officers as well in preparation for the coming May elections. Lawyer Marino Salas who was provincial election supervisor (PES) of Pangasinan for a long time, has been transferred to Ilocos Sur. He was replaced…
MECHANIZED BAYANIHAN – A farm tractor, instead of neighbors and friends helping out in bayanihan spirit, moves a nipa hut to another location in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
PANGASINENSES no longer need to bring their sick patients to Manila as the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan is now the only tertiary hospital in Pangasinan (and in Region 1) at par if not better than many of the hospitals in the metropolis. Dr. Roland Mejia, R1MC medical…
BLESSING FROM BABY JESUS — A little girl bows to kiss an image of Infant Jesus after the Christmas Day mass at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Church in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
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