SEARCH AND RESCUE TRAINING–Participants in the recent capability building and enhancement training on disaster risk reduction and management organized by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC), simulate a rescue operation in a river. The team of trainors was composed of volunteers from the Provincial Health Office, Bureau of Fire and…
CITY-WIDE EARTHQUAKE DRILL SCHOOLS in Dagupan, a city considered a model in disaster-preparedness and management, still need to improve in their readiness to handle calamities.
DAGUPAN may have the highest number of dengue cases compared to other towns in the province but it has not reached epidemic level. In a radio interview Thursday, City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell clarified that the 20 dengue cases recorded this month was lower compared to the same period last…
DRUG REHAB CENTER—Meeting to fast track the completion of the Area Treatment and Drug Rehab Center in Bonuan Binloc, former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., Fourth District Representative Gina de Venecia, Miguel Perez Rubio, protocol officer of President Benigno Aquino III, and Dr. Roland Mejia, chief of Region 1 Medical…
HOPES are high that the still unfinished Area Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Dagupan may be completed sooner with the visit to the city on July 23 of the protocol officer of President Benigno Aquino III and an official of the Department of Health (DoH).
EVEN schools are not spared by thieves, and they are getting younger and younger. For the fourth time this year, the General Gregorio Elementary School in barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan lost another property to thieves.
PREPARING FOR DISASTERS–Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. calls on all Pangasinenses to “interfere, help and cooperate” in disaster reduction, prevention and preparedness during the launching last July 11 of National Disaster Consciousness Month participated in by various sectors, including Police Provincial Director Rosueto V. Ricaforte; Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and…
LINGAYEN–The Blue Ribbon committee of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) dismissed on July 14 the administrative complaint filed by a college president against Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza in connection with the operation of the Pangasinan State University campus in his city.
TRAINING FOR DISASTER REDUCTION–As part of the observance of the National Disaster Consciousness Month, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council conducts a four-day capability building and enhancement training on disaster risk reduction and management for members of municipal disaster risk reduction and management councils in the flood-prone towns…
REMEMBERING THE JULY 1990 EARTHQUAKE A CITY-WIDE simultaneous earthquake drill will be carried out on July 18 at 9 a.m. in all public and private elementary and secondary schools in Dagupan in observance of the July 16, 1990 earthquake, which struck the city and other parts of Luzon.
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