LINGAYEN– The Lingayen District Hospital (LDH) in this capital town will be converted into a provincial hospital, once the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City becomes a medical center. This was disclosed by Governor Amado Espino Jr. during the unveiling of the bust of Don Mariano Verzosa at the LDH,…

STA. BARBARA—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will proceed to build a substation that will house a 100-power transformer to further improve delivery of power to the province. Engr. Alan Medrano of the NGCP Northern Luzon said the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) approved the NGCP’s request after it conducted…

LOCAL government units have been reminded that they are mandated by law to put up dog pounds for stray dogs as provided for in the National Anti-Rabies Act or Republic Act No. 9482. Dr. Eric Perez, officer-in-charge of the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) issued the reminder during the KBP Forum on…

LINGAYEN – “Walang hihigit pa sa pagiging handa sa panahon ng kalamidad,” thus stressed Vice-Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr.  during the Disaster Preparedness Dialogue for the “Operation LISTO” project of the Department of the Interior and Local Government held in Dagupan City last May 12. Speaking on behalf of Gov….

LINGAYEN- – -Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. awarded P100,000 in financial assistance to the Persons with Disability (PWD) Federation to be utilized for the construction of a database system for the upcoming national Paralympics to be held in July. David Bulario, PWD federation president, cited some of its activities that…

PORTABLE BAMBOO BEDS — Seeing men selling bamboo beds on their backs is no longer a familiar sight on the highways these days so PUNCH lensman Willie Lomibao caught up with them, he saw the situation differently through his lens: “Two men on a long hike with their portable beds…

LINGAYEN—The policeman who figured in a shooting rage that killed four  persons and wounded three others, most of them teachers, on Sept. 1 last year inside the Pangasinan National High School (PNHS) here remains in prison at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) while trial of his cases is going on. P/Sr….

FOR K T0 12 SENIORS LINGAYEN—Here’s the latest on the K to 12 curriculum in Department of Education (DepEd) Pangasinan 1 Division, when the senior high school begins to be implemented in June 2016. Out of the 135 high schools today, only 125 schools can offer senior high school courses….

PANGASINAN is lucky, it is not affected by a severe drought brought about by the intensified El Niño phenomenon as much as its neighbors. This was bared by Rosendo So, chairman of partylist Abono, who said during KBP Forum that farmers in Pangasinan are better off than their counterparts in other…

FIFTEEN families were rendered homeless in a less than an hour fire that razed 11 residential houses starting at 2:30 p.m. of May 4 along Amado Street in Barangay Tapuac in the first major fire in Dagupan City this year. Fire Officer 4 Charmy Ocampo, Dagupan City’s Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) operations officer, said no person was…