DAGUPAN City has set new standards for school buildings and it has asked the Department of Education (DepEd) to observe it. The recent flooding in the city prompted the Sangguniang Panlungsod to pass a resolution during its regular session last week requesting the DepEd to build only a three-storey school building for…
LINGAYEN—All police stations in the province have been directed to reinforce security in their jurisdictions by establishing neighborhood night watchers and work with barangay officials and residents after police chiefs analyzed the data gathered on incidents of robbery and theft. This was the main agenda tackled during the command conference…
CCTV FOOTAGE WENT VIRAL A BARANGAY kagawad realized that too late that being a barangay official does not give him the right to bully and slap a security guard for frisking his father before exiting a department store. Barangay Captain Herminigildo Rosal of Barangay 1 said Wednesday he ordered the…
SAFTEY IN HIGHWAYS LINGAYEN– The common practice of bus drivers stopping along any highway in the province to pick up and drop off ‘inspectors’ along the route is now illegal and violators (drivers and inspectors) will be fined progressively. The Sanggunian Panlalawigan (SP) said it passed the provincial ordinance to…
FOOD POISONING LINGAYEN—After the alarm and scare caused nationwide by the durian candy poisoning in Caraga region that sent 2,000 victims to the hospital last week, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan decided to invite government agencies to shed light on the progress of their investigation of the province’s own recent experience that…
IN case monsoon rains or typhoon seriously affect only a part of the province, the Governor may only declare “No Classes” in some sections, and no longer applicable to the whole province as normally applied today. Like a declaration of “No Classes” in Western Pangasinan but classes will continue in…
LINGAYEN— The Provincial Health Office (PHO) has advised residents to be more cautious when drinking water directly from faucets and other common outlets particularly especially during the rainy season. “Along with the monsoon rains is the big possibility of contamination of our water sources,” said PHO head, Dr. Anna De…
UNRESOLVED STRUCTURAL ISSUES IN spite of the looming shortage of classrooms for the K-12 system in Dagupan City, the 58 classrooms built in 11 schools in Dagupan under the Public Private Partnership for School Infrastructure Projects (PPP-SIP) remain unutilized because of unresolved structural integrity issues. This was bared by Diosdado Cayabyab,…
BANI—Rachel Grant, a Filipina-British actress who starred as “Peaceful Fountains of Desire” intelligence agent in the James Bond movie, “Die Another Day” and in many more movies, has been busy raising funds for a typhoon-shelter and school in a community here. Grant said in an interview through Facebook, the project…
LINGAYEN– The Bago Tribe in Sitio Mapita, Barangay Laoag in Aguilar town has been rocked by a leadership crisis since a multi-million peso company signified its intention to put up a bamboo plantation over a 10,600 hectares of a public land near its community. The conflict became evident after the…
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