THE Dagupan Police hosted a thanksgiving party and boodle fight last May 8 in front of its station to honor hundreds of its force multipliers or volunteers who helped secure the Bangus Festival from April 16 to May 6. The activity was led by P/Supt. Franklin Ortiz, officer-in-charge at the Dagupan Police…
FREAK ACCIDENT – The unidentified motorcycle rider, reportedly a jueteng cabo, suffers a tragic death when an electric post fell on him as he coasted along Barangay Gabon in Calasiao town last Thursday, May 4. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
A community-based rehabilitation program (CBRP) will soon be implemented in place in Dagupan for the over 1,200 self-confessed drug personalities who surrendered under the Masa Masid program of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). This was bared by DILG City Director Rhoderick Dawis who said those who surrendered…
PANGASINAN’S present and prospective overseas workers can look forward to seamless services for their benefit once the call for the establishment of a department that will cater exclusively to the needs of overseas workers. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano recently filed Senate Bill No. 1435 calling for the establishment of the Department…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in Pangasinan surpassed its target with more than 87,000 new registrants for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. Lawyer Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor of Pangasinan, said the 44 towns and four cities in Pangasinan had 42,174 new SK (15 -17 years old…
INFANTA—A twin siblings vacationing with their relatives drowned along the Nayom River in Sitio Dusok, Barangay Nayom in Infanta at 3:00 p.m. of April 30, an incident that devastated their family from Iloilo province. The victims were identified by the police as Rico Candado and his brother Rey, both 16…
BOLINAO — Two persons died in separate drowning incidents in Bolinao and Pozorrubio towns on April 30. Joel Solon, 49, employee of Cosmo Fortune Corp. based in Taguig City, who drowned at the coastal water of Barangay Patar, Bolinao, was declared dead on arrival at Rillera Medical Hospital in Bolinao…
THE road widening projects in central Pangasinan are affected not only by decades-old trees that are within the roads’ right of way but by electric posts as well. In central Pagansinan, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has requested for the transfer of the electric posts of Central…
FORMER House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said the recently-concluded ASEAN Summit hosted by the Philippines has provided the impetus for an Asia-wide support for President Duterte’s anti-drug campaign in the Philippines. De Venecia told local newsmen on April 30 (during the Bangus Festival’s Kalutan ed Dalan) in Dagupan City that the drug…
LINGAYEN –Tragedy struck a family from San Carlos City when the father and his two daughters drowned in the Lingayen Beach at 1:00 p.m. last April 24. The police identified the victims as Lorenzo Reyes, 44; and his two daughters Kim Alya, 16; and Pia, 12. A nephew of Reyes,…
© 2026 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
