LINGAYEN— Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil rejected the claim of former Rep. Mark Cojuangco that he (Bataoil) owes his designation as vice-chairman in three House committees and the allocation of infrastructure projects to his district to his affiliation with the Nationalist People’s Coalition. Bataoil maintained that the projects programmed for…
IN Dagupan, the number to call for police assistance folks in case of emergency or to report a crime 24/7 is 16-911. The new number is part of the program dubbed as B.E.L.E.N. that has already served 30 emergency cases in September and 21 cases for the period of October…
LINGAYEN– The country’s 28 young cultural ambassadors, who assumed the name Dayaw Kalinaw, joining the 41stShip for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program (SSEAJYP) on October 29 visited Pangasinan last week for a briefing on the province’s culture and tourist destinations.
THE numbers are in. The Dagupan City health office reported that 39,095 children were immunized through ‘Ligtas sa Tigdas’, a nationwide campaign of the Department of Health (DOH) from September 1 to 30. City Health Officer Dr. Leonard L. Carbonell gave the following breakdown: 18,166 children from nine months to…
LINGAYEN—Two more projects of the Second Pangasinan Engineering District of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will not be completed as scheduled by the end of the year owing to technical problems. This was disclosed by newly-reinstalled Second Highway district engineer Rodolfo Dion, recently the highway district engineer of Candon…
LINGAYEN – The host of an eco-travel show on ABS-CBN’s news channel, ANC, expressed his support for the provincial government’s advocacy against tree-cutting in Pangasinan. Rubi Palafox-Esteves, host of Rubi on a Road Trip’, commended Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. and the people of Pangasinan “for doing all efforts to stop the cutting of…
ALAMINOS CITY-—Shellfish samples collected from the coastal waters here have been found still to be positive of red tide toxin. Based on Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) advisory, Nestor Domenden, BFAR Region 1 director, said shellfishes collected at coastal waters of Alaminos in Pangasinan are still positive for…
SECRETARY Antonio Villar Jr. of the Dangerous Drug Board (DDB) hailed the good news that the Regional Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (RDTRC) of the Department of Health (DOH) in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City is opening its dormitory facilities for in-patients soon. Villar and Atty. Gonzalo T. Duque, president of the Lyceum-Northwestern…
BALON Dagupan has a new ambulance to serve patients needing emergency medical attention. It served its first patient last October 3 when a participant in the pre-marriage counseling organized by the City Population Office suddenly experienced abdominal pain and eventually birth contractions. The ambulance was quickly dispatched by the City…
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—The provincial health office (PHO) will begin to focus its program on the campaign against tuberculosis (TB. Dr. Anna Theresa De Guzman, provincial health officer disclosed that while the number of Pangasinenses with TB disease has been reduced, making the disease from fourth to now the ninth among the…
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