19 TOWNS, 2 CITIES COVID-FREE COVID-19 made its biggest surge in Pangasinan last week with 55 cases admitted in different hospitals and the death of one person, against only 19 patients that recovered, according to the daily update by the Provincial Health Office from August 20 to 27. Dasol continues to remain as the only town…
THE world is poorer by his passing away. Heaven has a new jewel. This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas described the passing of Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, popularly called as OVC among priests and close friends here, on his Facebook account. The archbishop died on Aug. 26 due to…
MAJOR REVAMP IN PANGASINAN A MAJOR revamp is taking place among the chief of police in Pangasinan following a major revamp in the hierarchy implemented by the PNP National Headquarters in Camp Crame. The first wave of reshuffling took place on August 27. The chiefs of police in Dagupan City…
STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS 2020 SIGNIFICANT strides were made by the Dagupan City government in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the city, foremost of which was the conduct of mass testing to local frontliners which eventually included market vendors, tricycles drivers and other sectors of the community….
3 PROVINCES STILL CLOSED OF the four provinces in Region I, only Pangasinan has reopened its borders to the three provinces in the region under the guidelines set for Modified Community Quarantine (MCEQ) assigned by the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF). The new situation disappointed Department of Labor and Employment Regional Director Nathaniel…
PROSECUTORS junked the complaints filed by the police against 173 persons arrested in simultaneous anti-illegal gambling operations conducted in Dagupan City and seven towns last August 19 for lack of probable cause. Inquest prosecutors from Dagupan City, San Carlos City, Urdaneta City, and Lingayen, in their separate dismissal orders, ordered…
SAN MANUEL ONLINE COCKFIGHTING RAID A CASE of violation the Presidential Decree No.449 or better known as Cockfigthing Law of 1974 as amended by PD 1602 was filed against ten people caught conducting illegal online cockfight gambling in the house of an official in Barangay Gueset Sur in San Manuel…
SIGN OF THE TIMES – The Tapuac Road in Dagupan City is submerged last Wednesday late afternoon after a heavy downpour preceded by tidal water. Flash flood that lasts for at least 6 hours in many areas in the city is becoming a common occurrence. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
COVID-19 TREAMENT PROTOCOL ANOTHER COVID-19 death was registered in Pangasinan when a 42-year-old female patient from San Fabian died last August 19 at the Region I Medical Center in Dagupan where she was admitted on August 16. The 42-year woman became the 13th COVID-19 patient who died in Pangasinan since…
THE regional office of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has opened additional 22 identified routes in Pangasinan for 297 public utility vehicles (PUVs) last August 14. Applications for special permits for Public Transportation Operation were open to the new identified routes, according to LTFRB, to qualified jeepney…
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