THE City Elections Office is eyeing 6,000 more new voters in Dagupan when registration of voters resumes nationwide on December 12 this year till January 31, 2023. City Elections Officer Michael Franks Sarmiento told a news conference that the registration in Dagupan will kick off in their office simultaneously with satellite…
HOUSE bill No. 454 co-authored by Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia seeking to give working media men protection, security and benefits passed in the House of Representatives on November 21 received wide support from local media practitioners. House Speaker Martin Romualdez said the bill titled “Media Workers Welfare Act”…
House bill for media workers’ welfare backed
THERE is bad news for candidates who resort to “flying voters” to help ensure their win at the polls. The Commission Elections has a new technology in place called Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), that can easily detect a double registrant or a prospective flying voter. In a news conference…
Technology ends days of “flying voters”
By 104.7 IMF Dagupan News Team Alaminos CDRRMC staff given more training SELECTED members from different units of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) in Alaminos City received new training to prepare them for various situations during calamities. The training included handling of different hazardous and life-threatening situations that…
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PASEO DE BELEN DIAMOND EDITION – The Nativity scene depicted by the Dagupan Electric Corporation used materials commonly associated with electricity, i.e, wooden poles, street lamps and strain insulators to create the images of St. Joseph, Virgin Mary and the Three Kings. The head of Infant Jesus is an old electric…
PASEO DE BELEN DIAMOND EDITION
GOOD news for residents still in possession of mutilated bills. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Northern Luzon is still accepting partially torn or burned bills and replaces these with brand new bills they can use during the holidays. Dante Cambri, senior research specialist at the BSP-NL, however, clarified that…
Mutilated peso bills can be replaced – BSP
WITH the onset of Christmas rush for shopping, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) North Luzon alerted both the shoppers and shop-owners to be vigilant against counterfeit P1,000 and P500 bills being passed around. Dante Cambri, senior research specialist of BSP, said it is an individual’s responsibility to make sure…
Watch out for P1k, P500 fake bills – BSP
EXPECT prices of onion to increase because of the increased demand during the holiday season, despite the ongoing harvests in Pangasinan’s neighboring provinces. According to 38-year-old Ronnie Ringor, an onion farmer and trader in Bayambang, he expects onions from Tarlac province to be sold in Pangasinan earlier because the bulb…
Onion price expected to be higher this month
THREE men were stabbed one after the other in Barangay Malued in Dagupan City recently reportedly caused by an ugly rumor in ‘Marites’ (in FB lingo) fashion. Hospitalized due to stab wounds in different parts of their bodies were Allan Quitalig, Jhon Quitalig, and Harim Lagao, all residents of Barangay Malued. P/ Lieutenant Colonel Vicente Castor Jr.,…
‘Marites’ leads to stabbing of 3
By 104.7 IFM Dagupan News Team Crime incidents in Pangasinan on a downward trend THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office said the crime rate in 48 towns and cities of the province continue to decrease. The accomplishment report of the Pangasinan PPO from November 20-26 cited: 10 buy-bust operations that resulted in the arrest of…




