ELEVEN workers of a big private manufacturing company in Barangay Labayug in Sison town registered positive for COVID-19 on November 1 and instantly became the town with the second highest cases in Pangasinan. In an advisory, Sison Mayor Danilo Uy said the infected workers, all men, were asymptomatic with no…
THE Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese will not hold any archdiocesan or vicariate observance of Christ the King due to the pandemic. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas announced this in his circular that while the Solemnity of Christ the King has always been observed with grandeur and depth in the archdiocese in the past,…
PHYSICAL DISTANCING WITH THE DEPARTED – A police officer locks up the gate at Mt. Zion Memorial Park in compliance with the order of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
LATEST PHO TALLY SHOWS THE period October 13-19 registered 128 new confirmed cases, 121 new recovered and five deaths could be the indicator that stakeholders in the campaign vs COVID-19, that show an encouraging trend that COVID-19 can be conquered seven months after the start of the pandemic. This optimism…
THE city of Dagupan continues to be on top of the COVID-19 watch list of the Department of Health and of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) because its active cases remain past the century mark, the highest in Pangasinan. As of 9 p.m. on October 28, Dagupan recorded 116 active…
ONE of respondents named in the double murder and three counts of frustrated murder in connection with the ambush of former Fifth District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. on September 11, 2019 committed suicide in his home in Barangay Poblacion East, Calasiao, early morning of October 27. Ronald Anthony Romero, 36,…
INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año lauded Gov. Amado Espino III for his effective handling of the COVID-19 situation in Pangasinan as he announced that Pangasinan’s status will remain a Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) from November 1 to 30. Espino and Sangguniang Kabataan Provincial Federation president Jerome Vic…
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)-Region 1 Office in Calasiao has filed 10 separate criminal complaints against delinquent businessmen for willful failure to pay taxes from 2012 to 2016 in an aggregate amount of tax liability amounting to P154-million. A report dated Oct. 23 from the BIR-Region 1 Office said…
FULL STRICT IMPLEMENATION IN PANGASINAN AFTER suspending road-clearing nationwide, including in Pangasinan and Dagupan City, for the past seven months, the Department of Interior and Local Government ordered its resumption on November 16. The memo circular was directed by DILG Sec. Eduardo Año to all governors, city and municipal mayors,…
INDEX crimes in Region 1 during this time of pandemic since March decreased by 48.9 percent compared to last year over the same period. P/Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr, regional police director, said it showed that from March 17 to Oct. 22, there were 729 index crimes recorded compared to…
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