THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan invited the regional director of the Land Transportation and Franchising Board (LTFRB) in their next regular session to be updated on the status of the request of Governor Amado Espino III for the resumption of Pangasinan-MetroManila provincial bus operations. Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario cited…
WITH P500-M CREDIT LINE TO start its planned palay-buying operations for the benefit of farmers, the provincial government got its go-signal to open a P500-million credit line with the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) for the purpose. During its virtual session last February 22, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) authorized Gov. Amado…
FIVE drug dealers were arrested last week in separate buy-bust operations and one through the service of search warrant in line with the continuing war on drugs by the police in Pangasinan on order of P/Colonel Ronald Gayo, police provincial director. First to fall at about 7:00 a.m. on February…
PREVENTIVE SUSPENSION PANGASINAN I Schools Division Superintendent Shiela Primicias was slapped with 90-day preventive suspension by the Department of Education (DepEd) central office effective February 23 in a suspension order served on her by the DepEd regional office. Primicias’ suspension was personally served by Department of Education (DepEd) Regional Director…
THE operations of the dairy farm in Barangay Maraboc in Laoac town mothballed some five years ago will soon be revived following the signing of a memorandum of agreement on February 25 between Governor Amado Espino III and Laoac Mayor Ricardo Balderas. Under the MOA, the provincial government and the…
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM THE number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan slightly increased to 322 as of February 25, from 255 last February 18 with 178 more new confirmed cases added to the tally in a span of one week compared to only 133 recoveries earlier. Pangasinan health officials are…
OUTNUMBERED BUT NOT OUTSMARTED — The fisherman in Binmaley suddenly finds himself competing for fish to catch with almost a hundred birds hovering over him and diving on all sides. As expected his haul for the day was greatly minimized by the hungry birds. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
TARGET PERIOD: MARCH THE provincial government had endorsed the request of three bus companies for special permits from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board that will allow them to resume their inter-provincial operations from Pangasinan to Metro Manila and vice versa. This was confirmed by Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued who said Governor…
DEATH CERTIFICATE, PROSECUTORS’ RESO AMIDST persistent claims and suspicions from some quarters that controversial former board member Raul Sison is still alive, his son, mayor of Urbiztondo, reiterated his family’s earlier announcement that his father died on March 26, 2020 from COVID-19. Mayor Martin Raul Sison posted a video message…
ESPINO AMBUSCADE ONE of three principal suspects in the ambush of former Congressman Amado Espino Jr., arrested by joint police teams in Poblacion, San Juan, Batangas last February 7 and already detained at the Basista Police jail, was served with six warrants of arrest on February 15. The suspect, Armando…
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