BANGUS (milkfish) was in short supply at the Magsaysay Fish Market in Dagupan due to the cold temperature at night over the past few months, prompting an increase in prices of the city’s most popular product. As of Monday, March 17, prices for small milkfish ranged from P120 to P140…
A buy-bust operation conducted in Barangay Nalsian, Bayambang early morning of March 19 resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old high-value target and the seizure of illegal drugs worth over P340,000. The successful operation was led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Pangasinan Provincial Office, with the support from…
AN investigation is underway following the recovery of a bucket believed to contain the illegal drug shabu (methamphetamine) in Barangay Boboy in Agno town. The bucket, found Friday morning by fisherman Abelardo Fernando Ramos Jr. while fishing approximately 20 nautical miles west of Barangay Macaboboni, was turned over to the…
SHOOTING incidents in Pangasinan this January dropped by half to six from 12 in the same month last year, the police reported. Police Provincial Director P/Colonel Rollyfer Capoquian, in a recent interview, attributed the peaceful atmosphere in Pangasinan to the implementation of Commission on Elections (COMELEC) checkpoints. An election-related gun…
(Filed by Ahikam Pasion) 2 nabbed in Dagupan drug ops, P136K shabu seized AUTHORITIES seized suspected shabu valued at over P136,000 and arrested two individuals, a 37-year-old former overseas Filipino worker and a 38-year-old tricycle driver, both residents of Dagupan City, in a recent anti-illegal drug buy-bust operation. Following the…
MOTHER-CHILD HOSPITAL PROJECT WITHDRAWN CONSTRUCTION of the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) project in Dagupan City has been scrapped before the P150 million allotted to it could be downloaded by the Department of Health to the Dagupan City government Mayor Belen Fernandez, in her State of the City Address (SOCA)…
UNLISERBISYO TO prevent the risk of breast cancer, women aged 30-65 years old should avail of free breast cancer screening services and Cervical Cancer Screening with the Dagupan City government and the Department of Health Ilocos Center for Health Development. Cancer Screening services include: Clinical Breast Examination, Cervical Cancer Screening…
MISS HUNDRED ISLANDS BEAUTIES – Jacynthe Zena Castillo (center) from Sual, Pangasinan this year’s Miss Hundred Islands, is joined by (from left) 2nd Runner-Up Princess Tacazon from Ilocos Sur, Miss Environment 2025 Divine Grace Malicdem of Lingayen, Miss Tourism 2025 Ghelsy Reign Ravago from Dagupan City and 1st Runner-Up Anjali C. Pradeep Kumar from Bauang,…
THIS year’s candidates for the Limgas na Pangasinan were presented to the media on March 16 at the Sison Auditorium, marking the start of the pageant wherein the top three winners will represent the province in national competitions. Local media personalities interviewed the candidates in the Q-and-A portion and voted…
Women’s Month Special: IN this women’s month celebration, it would be worthwhile to recall now Manay Gina de Venecia turned into an instant “komadrona” (midwife) that saved the life of a woman heavy with a child she found lying on the street on a dark cold night, writhing in pain,…
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