STA. MARIA–Personnel of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) of Sta. Maria town are still combing the Agno River in search of a man who dived there at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday and failed to surface. The police identified the still missing person as one Roberto Dacasin, 51,…
LINGAYEN– A team from the provincial government led by Gov. Amado Espino, III enplaned for Japan on May 18 for a 7-day training on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM). The 2nd Knowledge Co-Creation Program (Private Partnership) training is being held at Informatix Inc. in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, seeks to…
LINGAYEN– The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), in its special session held on May 16 here approved the appropriation of P4,000 as financial assistance for each job order (contractual) employee and consultant in the provincial government. Resolution author Board Member Angel M. Baniqued, Jr. said the fund was appropriated to help the…
THE Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-Pangasinan satellite has introduced an eco-friendly septic system in the province to address the growing garbage and wastewater problem. Arnold Santos, officer-in-charge at the DOST-Pangasinan satellite office, said the newly-developed septic system enhanced with organo-minerals is meant to reduce health and environment risks and…
LEE AS PERMANENT PD WHAT can be expected now that P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Lee is the province’s permanent provincial director of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO)? P/chief Inspector Norman Florentino, PPPO information officer and head of the community relations, said there is now full accountability over police operations and…
COOL SUNSET BY THE LINGAYEN GULF – The sight of the magical sunset is enough reason for frolickers at the Lingayen Beach to stay longer and watch until the sun vanishes from the horizon. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINENSES in the uniformed sector may soon find themselves retiring at 60 years old, not 56 if Congress acts on a Senate bill. The bill filed by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano proposes to adjust the compulsory retirement age for the country’s uniformed men and women from fifty-six (56) to sixty (60)…
CONTROVERSY rocked the Small Town Lottery (STL) operation in Dagupan City before it can officially start its operation following the arrest of eight persons claiming to be representatives of a company authorized by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on May 9, Tuesday. The eight were arrested while putting up the signage of…
ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIFE THE Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (TRC) of the Department of Health (DOH) in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City is now home to 180 clients, who at one time in their lives used drugs, for a chance to get back to normal and rejoin society. The number already…
SPREADING of malicious, fake news will soon be a crime in Dagupan City. In the fourth and final public hearing of the Committee on Peace and Order, chaired by Councilor Joey Netu Tamayo, media practitioners, P/Superintendent Franklin Ortiz, city police chief, and the regions’ PNP Anti-Cyber Crime Office participated and…
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