IN a bid to further decongest the streets of Dagupan, the local government is finally weeding out all colorum tricycles plying the city. Mayor Belen Fernandez recently issued an executive order creating Anti-Colorum Task Force (ACTF) and named retired SPO4 Carlito Ocampo as its head to effect the crackdown against…
LINGAYEN–Pangasinan and Cebu will soon be sister-provinces, fostering cordial relations, cultural enhancement, and economic development. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) of Pangasinan passed Provincial Resolution No. 446-2014 last week expressing support to the sisterhood proposal.
LEAGUE OF CITIES’ STRATEGIC PLANNING—Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (2nd from right, fronting camera with other city mayors listen to Quezon City Mayor and League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) president Herbert Bautista as he discusses pressing issues affecting local governments during the first day of the 2014 LCP National…
LINGAYEN–The Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) was named the best office in the 2014 Employees’ Awards and Recognition sponsored by the provincial capitol. The Western Pangasinan District Hospital was awarded Best Performing Hospital in terms of Productivity and Quality Program.
THE Philippine Red Cross-Pangasinan Chapter based in Dagupan City maintains a daily balance of 224 units of blood, higher than the 119 units that each chapter is supposed to keep daily. However, Florame Magalong, PRC chapter administrator, is still appealing for more blood donation to ensure that there will be…
GONE IN FLAMES—The home of the late ex- governor Cipriano “Tito” Primicias Jr. in Barangay Banaoang in Sta. Barbara town, along with all his memorabilia, were destroyed in a fire caused by a faulty electrical wiring in the evening of February 19. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
STA. BARBARA—The house of the late ex- governor Cipriano “Tito” Primicias Jr. in Barangay Banaoang here was razed by fire Wednesday night. The caretaker of the house, Ben Velasco, 38, told investigators that upon hearing an explosion at the second floor, he went to check and saw an electrical short…
STA. MARIA—Endangered species of trees are now being cloned for propagation in a nursery established by the Pangasinan State University (PSU) campus in this town in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Professor Simeon Cabansag, campus executive director of PSU Sta. Maria campus, said the DENR…
“I deny the allegation”. This was the opening statement of City Market Administrator Aguedo Sta. Maria before the Blue Ribbon Committee of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) that is investigating in aid of legislation an open-letter complaint of Punch Editor Publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. in his column in September last year.
IF the Dagupan District Jail by the beach were a resort beach hotel, it can be said its capacity is overbooked by 206%! Such is the state of the district jail that houses 459 inmates built for only 150. This was conveyed by Chief Inspector Jun Melchor Boadilla, jail warden…
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