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…
STILL, OLD CHRISTMAS NORMAL—A couple looks at colorful parols on display that they can hang outside their home to help buoy the traditional Christmas spirit in their neighborhood amid the pandemic. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
COVID-19 CONTAGION AFTER a week of what appeared to be a positive development in the provincial government’s war vs. COVID-19, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) logged 186 newly confirmed active patients, five of whom died. Last week’s new cases were only 137. The only mitigating factor over the week was…
DAGUPAN CITY COVID-19 CASES DAGUPAN City has registered the highest death toll for COVID-19 in Pangasinan to date. As of 9 p.m. on October 22, the city of Dagupan already registered 17 deaths from COVID-19 infection, three are believed to be members of a Filipino-Chinese family with a business shop…
VACCINE FOR MEASLES – Family members put their hands together to calm down their baby as the vaccine is administered on her by a nurse at the clinic for the government’s Chikiting Ligtas, ang bakuna ay kontra sa Tigdas program. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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