THE Provincial Legal Office has denied the allegation that the office of the Governor is meddling in the internal affairs of the Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial Federation (LnB). Legal Officer Atty. Geraldine Baniqued made the clarification amid the controversy surrounding the succession issue of LnB’s presidency post, particularly the…
HVT DRUG DEALER BUSTED — PDEA operatives analyze the illegal drugs seized from the drug dealer after the successful buy-bust operations in Calasiao. (Punchphoto by Ahikam Pasion)
WAR VS.ILLEGAL DRUGS THE campaign of the Pangasinan police against illegal drugs under P/Colonel Ronald Gayo, police provincial director, got off to a good start with the arrest of five drug dealers in different towns in separate police operations. Arrested in these operations were suspects Frederick Tandoc, 42, of Sitio…
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) finally busted and arrested the province’s top 4 priority target in a buy-bust operation last Thursday in Barangay San Miguel, Calasiao. PDEA Pangasinan team leader Rechie Camacho said the high value target identified as Arnel Sanchez aka ‘Badz’, of legal age, and a resident…
NEW NORMAL, NEW YEAR REVELRY – Residents of Gomez and Burgos Streets in Dagupan City traditionally light thousands worth of firecrackers and pyrotechnics to welcome the new year during the previous years. This year, they content themselves lighting up mini pyrotechnics because of the strict regulation on use of firecrackers. (Punchphoto by Willie…
290-DAY WAR VS COVID-19 AT the end of the year and 290 days from March 16, 2020, Pangasinan still has 319 active cases confined in hospital and in various LGU isolation facilities. In sum, the Provincial Health Office’s (PHO) records showed that the province’s war vs COVID -19 tallied 2,772…
THE Dagupan City Water District (DCWD) entered into a Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) with the private company Pamana Water Corporation in the middle of the pandemic in August 2020, a deal that surprised many water consumers and even the Sangguniang Panlungsod. The JVA, effective for 25 years, only came to the fore…
LINGAYEN Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil said a total firecracker ban is in effect in the town following the occurrence of separate fire incidents in at least two barangays during the New Year revelry. Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil went to the affected areas in Tonton and Pangapisan North, together with Bureau of Fire…
THE number of persons injured by firecrackers and fireworks display during the New Year’s countdown in Region 1 significantly decreased by 62 percent, with two victims of indiscriminate firing during the New Year revelry. P/Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr also said in his report to the Philippine National Police (PNP)…
THE celebration of New Year in Pangasinan was generally peaceful with only 17 persons reported hurt from December 21 to January 1, although the final count for firecracker-related injuries will still be known on January 5. P/Colonel Ronald Gayo, police provincial director, described the decrease in firecracker- related incidents in…
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