BINALONAN—Gossipers have no place in Barangay Capas here as an “anti-tsismis” ordinance bans and penalizes them. Barangay Kapitan Danilo Tabucol Sr. said the ordinance has since helped maintain peace among families here because those proven to be spreading lies are fined and required to render community service. Tabucol said the…

FOR renting out the municipality’s heavy equipment without authority from the Sangguniang Bayan in 2012, Anda Mayor Aldrin Cerdan is now facing a graft case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman. Graft Investigation and Prosecution Officer IV Kristine Suzanne Fineza found Cerdan violating Section 3(e) of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft…

MANGATAREM—If one day you begin to smell the heavenly scent of Ylang-ylang in a community, then you know you have reached the Second District of Pangasinan. This town recently transplanted some 200,000 Ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata) seedlings and more are propagated in a nursery in Barangay Bueno here. Since the start of…

HIGH FECAL COLIFORM LEVEL THE Dagupan City government was alerted by a finding of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Water Quality Monitoring Report that four of the seven rivers in the city registered a high coliform level. This data was revealed during the public hearing conducted by the…

THE Dagupan City government is considering hiring and deploying more traffic enforcers to help enforce road and traffic discipline in the city. “We need to hire additional traffic enforcers to guide the motorists and the pedestrians to get used to observing the traffic lights, to prevent counter-flow and strictly implement…

THE regional office of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA RO1) has expressed optimism that a drug- free Ilocandia is possible as it reported strides after its 226 successful anti-narcotics operations in the region in 2016. In his report, PDEA Regional Director Jeffrey Tacio said their operations led to 271 arrests…

 LINGAYEN—In case President Rodrigo Duterte decides not to totally ban manufacture, sale and use of firecrackers in the country, a technical working group in the House of Representatives has started discussions on a proposed measure seeking to amend the existing law. This was reported by Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil,…

DAGUPAN City recorded only 18 firecracker injuries, from 27 of the previous year, when its residents welcomed the year 2017, according to a report of the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS). Superintendent Neil O. Miro, acting-DCPS chief, reported this to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez during a traditional courtesy call on…

NOTING a Facebook post that it now takes 30 minutes to one hour to reach one’s destination in the downtown area, the Dagupan City Council decided it will conduct a consultative meeting on January 11 with officials of the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) to determine if the five installed traffic lights in the…

DAGUPAN’S traffic rules major intersections equipped with traffic lights. The flow of traffic in the city’s five major road intersections are now controlled by traffic lights following the activation of the two remaining traffic lights on January 6 at Perez Boulevard corner Guilig Street, and Perez Boulevard corner Rizal Street…