TO PROTECT DAGUPAN FROM FLOODING DAGUPAN City Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo asked the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to replace and reformat its plans for dikes since most of the existing dikes in Dagupan are of the Gabion-type and which are lower in elevation than the level of…
SISON—After 57 years, this town will finally have its new three-story municipal hall. Mayor Danilo Uy said the construction started three months ago but monsoon rains and super Typhoon Ompong delayed the completion, instead it is expected to be completed in December this year. Uy said the project costs only…
MANGATAREM— The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) released emergency cash assistance to some 1,314 families in this town and another 644 in Calasiao who were affected by monsoon rains and Typhoon Ompong to help them cope with their difficulties. Senator Richard Gordon, also PRC chairman, said the P3,000 each given to…
TWO students of the Calasiao Comprehensive National High School were hurt when the tricycle they were riding crashed into a concrete post in Barangay Tebeng midnight of Oct. 24. The victims, Gerald C. Abulencia and Manuel Kyle C. Abulencia, 14, were rushed to the Region 1 Medical Center by a rescue team from…
FRIENDS’ BANTER – Health Sec. Francisco Duque III and Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez share a light moment, reacting to the remarks of Taguig Rep. Pia Cayetano during the inauguration of the Region 1 Medical Center’s five-storey Training and Eye Center Building. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE provincial election supervisor of Pangasinan advised candidates to keep their personal copies of their certificate of candidacy (CoC) for Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) possible evaluation of their certificates. Marino Salas of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Pangasinan said the BIR had asked some candidates for copies of their…
AS of 5:00 p.m. on October 17, 25 candidates who were able to beat the deadline in filing their respective Certificates of Candidacy (CoCs) before the City Elections Office at the city hall. One Socorro Barrozo Aquino, a housewife, filed her CoC for mayor as independent candidate on the last…
LINGAYEN—The Lingayen Airport manager of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) apologized to the provincial board members here for the low flying planes over the Capitol Compound here disturbing government offices, residences and schools in the area. Engr. Job de Jesus apologized last week in the face of…
THE two pawikan (sea turtles) that beached in San Fabian and turned over to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Dagupan City in 2016 and 2017 were released back to the sea on Oct. 6 Sen. Grace Poe, who was in Pangasinan, joined the release of…
LINGAYEN—Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil and two others were hurt when their van collided with a motorcycle early morning of Oct. 5 along the Paniqui-Camiling-Tarlac highway. The congressman and his driver Armando Manlongat were on their way to Pangasinan on board a Starex van when a motorcycle rider traveling from…
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