BARANGAY, SK ELECTIONS A GOOD number of voters turned up for the registration organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the province starting last week for the October barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. On July 22, the first day of the registration, more than 4,600 new voters around…
PROUDLY DRUG-FREE—A banner rallying the people against illegal drugs is posted in every barangay in Sto. Tomas, which proudly claims to be a drug-free town for four decades running. (Punchphoto by Eva Visperas) Back to Homepage
STO. TOMAS—This town takes pride in not just having a Guinness World Record for longest barbecue for its 1,559 meters of grilled glutinous corn during its first Corn Festival in 2008, but a long 40-year record of being free from illegal drugs. The new mayor, Timoteo “Dick” Villar III, has…
SECOND District Rep. Leopoldo N. Bataoil is the first among the province’s six congressional representatives to publicly express support for the redistricting plan forwarded by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. “I have no objection to that proposal,” Bataoil said during the KBP forum on July 25, 2013. Bataoil intimated that his fellow…
NEW DRUG DEAL SITES FOOD courts, parking areas and comfort rooms of shopping malls have become popular venues for drug deals, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. said a recent string of buy-bust operations resulted in the arrest of suspected…
LINGAYEN—Board Member Mojamito Libunao is mulling libel charges against a local paper for what he calls a malicious publication of a story alleging that he and his wife, former San Fabian Mayor Irene Libuano, have not accounted for a missing P2.3 million from the municipality’s fund. Libunao, himself a lawyer,…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez wants to auction a brand new Hilux 4×4 pick up bought by the past city administration that used part of the calamity fund ostensibly for use of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC). The vehicle, which is now parked at the at the city…
LINGAYEN–A 12-year old girl from Sual has been reported as the first victim of chikungunya, another mosquito-borne viral infection, in the province. Dr. Ana De Guzman, provincial health office (PHO) chief, said the chikungunya case was recorded at the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City. The patient, whose blood…
COMBATING DENGUE—Students from Dagupan City National High School take part in releasing some 20,000 mosquito fish on July 17, 2013 in the canals and drainage system along the University belt of Dagupan in Tapuac road to help control the proliferation of mosquitoes which could carry diseases such as dengue and…
WAR VS. DENGUE IN A BID to contain spread of mosquitoes, some 20, 000 mosquito fish were dispersed last week in the drainage system in barangay Tapuac where many elementary and secondary schools in Dagupan City are located. Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development…
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