THE dredging of the mouth of the Calmay River will be sought by Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez when she meets with officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). She said she has requested for an emergency meeting to reiterate the need to dredge the mouth of…
WAR ON IGNORANCE URDANETA CITY— There is a different kind of war being waged in the city. It’s a war contra ignorance, and improve literacy rate among out-of-school youths in the city. The city police station launched “Pulis Ko, Teacher Ko Mobile Learning Library” project recently where the policemen become…
Urdaneta cops turn teachers to barangay youths
MANAOAG—A year after a policeman was killed in an armed encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) elements in San Nicolas town, his widow launched a community-based tree planting project in Barangay Cabanbanan here on July 28 to honor his memory. Katrina Tamondong, widow of Police Officer 2 Aries Tamondong…
Memory Trees project honors slain cop
THE family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) from Bugallon, who recently died from infections of her wounds she suffered from maltreatment by her employer in Jeddah is asking the help of the government to seek justice. According to Zenaida Ibasan, her daughter Rowena, 29 years old from Barangay Gueset…
Family of OFW who died from maltreatment seeks justice
AFTER MORE THAN 60 DAYS AFTER more than 60 days, still only one city and 27 towns and one drug-free municipality have been officially declared by the regional oversight committee as drug-cleared. All the towns and cities in the province have been declared drug free since January 2018 by the…
Still, only 28 towns and one city drug-cleared
LINGAYEN– The provincial government has donated P1.5 million fund support to the Pangasinan Integrated Muslim Assembly, Inc. for the construction of a public Muslim cemetery. At the ceremonial turnover was Gov. Amado Espino III and department heads led by Provincial Administrator Nimrod S. Camba, at the Urduja House on August…
Capitol supports new Muslim cemetery
WHAT was initially thought of the three-day rainfall that hit Pangasinan as normal turned out to be torrential. This was the assessment of Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer, who described the 30 mm. per hour rainfall that occurred July 22, 23 and 24 as abnormal….
Three-day rainfall was torrential
FLOOD OR NO FLOOD Flood or no flood, the police continue to operate against suspected drug dealers in all towns. P/SR. Superintendent Wilson Lopez, acting police provincial director, said members of Drug Enforcement Team (DET) in every police station, were still busy monitoring and conducting buy-bust operations against illegal drug…
Lopez: no let-up in anti-drug ops
AND THE WINNER IS… – The banca ferrying a resident in the city overtakes the commuter bus at a flooded intersection in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
AND THE WINNER IS…
CLOSE to 1,000 residents, comprising 228 families were evacuated to the Dagupan People’s Astrodome while others took refuge in schools. According to Mayor Belen Fernandez, 3,022 residents belonging to 799 families were rescued by the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and other groups. Fernandez said the city’s 44,138…




