DE VENECIA HIGHWAY MAYOR Belen Fernandez has ordered the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) to post traffic enforcers along the De Venecia Highway especially along the rotunda area on 24/7 duty to enforce traffic rules and ordinances and ensure the safety of motorists. She issued the order after conducting an ocular inspection in the area following a road…

LINGAYEN—The Lingayen Baywalk exapansion program begins. With P114-million allocated for the expansion of the Lingayen Baywalk this year, it will include the extension of the baywalk towards the east in San Isidro Norte, Binmaley. This was disclosed by Second Pangasinan Engineering District head, Engr. Rodolfo Dion, in an interview last…

PANGSINAN PNP CRIME STATS The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office maintains the province is still generally peaceful and under control even if the number of crimes committed from December 16, 2014 to January 4, 2015 compared to the same period of 2013 to 2014 increased. With the exception of murder and…

MANGALDAN–The municipal government is set to construct the Mangaldan Social Service Center (MSSC) this year that will house battered women and children with special needs in the town. Mayor Bonafe Parayno said she saw the need for a center that will cater to the needs of battered women after the…

THE Dagupan City Hall listed eight proposed ordinances and 12 proposed resolutions to the sanggunian panlungsod (SP) during the third quarter of last year. These proposals remain pending and unacted upon to date, one of which is the 2015 annual budget. According to City Administrator Farah Decano, the other submitted…

PANGASINAN VETERANS DAY LINGAYEN—The sanggunian panlalawigan has a gift to the province’s war veterans and their surviving descendants. A 360-sq. meter lot has been provided for the construction of Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) field office here. Second District Board Member Nestor Reyes, author of the resolution approved Monday, said…

NO SUSPENSION IN SIGHT WHILE Congress debates whether to suspend anew the elections of Sanggnuniang Kabataan (SK) chapters in the country, 129, 772 youths, ages 15 to 17, already registered for the elections on February 21. Lawyer Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor of the Commission on Election (Comelec) in Pangasinan, said…

LINGAYEN—No firearm issued to policemen in the province were fired for the duration of the long holiday. This was confirmed by the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) and municipal and city police stations in the province when final inspection of over 2,000 firearms sealed with masking tape was conducted last…

IN case of fire in Dagupan City, the city can only respond with one firetruck from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP). This is because two out for the three units that the BFP maintains in the city are under repair, leaving only one to be fully functional. In this regard,…

  SEVEN SUFFERED AMPUTATION LINGAYEN—As of January 4, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) here recorded an almost 40% increase in the number of persons treated for firecracker injuries incidents this year compared to the same period last year. Provincial health officer Dr. Anna De Guzman said 247 firecracker-related injuries were recorded…