100 PDLs, 30 PERSONNEL PASS DRUG TESTS SOME 100 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Male Dormitory (BJMP-MD) and its 30 personnel were tested randomly and all yielded negative results. This determined the tests facilitated by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development-1…
MALICO TRAIL IN SAN NICOLAS THE San Nicolas Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) urged motorists to take caution when passing through the Villa Verde trail along Barangay Malico after several landslides were noted on different areas of the trail. Landslides have become frequent despite the warm dry…
WALKING THROUGH KALUTAN — Mayor Belen Fernandez leads the city’s distinguished guests in a leisure walk around the Kalutan ed Dagupan and Bangusan Street Party area. She is joined by DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos, Alice Eduardo, former Rep. Manay Gina, former Speaker Joe De Venecia, Small Luade and visitors from the Department of Foreign…
MAJORITY: SIMILAR OUTPUTS IN 2022, 2023 BUDGETS DAGUPAN Councilor and Minority Floor Leader Michael Fernandez, slammed the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod for erroneously drawing similarities between the passage of the 2022 annual budget by the past SP majority, and passage of the annual budget this year by the new…
GIANT PINAKBET PIZZA ANYONE? — A pinakbet pizza (8 feet in diameter) prepared by students of the Apple International School of Culinary Arts Inc., a TESDA-accredited culinary school, is presented to the public during the opening of the Pangasinan BESTival at SM City Urdaneta Central showcasing the best food from the province. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
A SUGGESTION by Councilor Celia Lim during last week’s regular session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod to Mayor Belen Fernandez to stage the next Bangus Festival in the downtown area next time was dismissed outright by the latter. At the end of their regular session on May 3, Lim, the mother…
THERE are still some 80,000 hectares of farmlands in Pangasinan that remain without or partially irrigated, a situation that can become critical in the face of a looming El Niño phenomenon in June or early third quarter of the year. According to Engineer Gaudencio de Vera, National Irrigation Administration (NIA)…
THE Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) issued an El Niño Alert on Tuesday, May 02, citing the probability of the El Niño phenomenon hitting the country at 80 percent. However, PAGASA said current data shows Northern Luzon, including Pangasinan, can expect only weak to medium disastrous impact…
THE YEAR’S LIMGAS QUEENS — Buenafe Cheveh (center) of Binmaley wears her crown as Limgas na Pangasinan World during the pageant and coronation night on April 29 at the Capitol plaza in Lingayen. The Pageant was one of the highlights of Pista’y Dayat (Sea Festival). Cheveh was also adjudged Best in…
A FORMER director of St. John Institute, a family-owned private school in Bautista town in Pangasinan, is the only Filipina who qualified to receive $25,000 (approximately P1.5 million) grant from the First 5 LA, a state agency in California that supports diverse set of grants and programs that seek to improve…
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