AN intensified anti-illegal gambling campaign in Pangasinan resulted in the arrest of 173 violators last Wednesday, August 19. P/Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr, PNP regional director, said the anti-Illegal gambling plan “Operations High Roller” was conducted in one city and eight towns in the province that resulted not only in…
WRONG TIME, RIGHT JOB — The Dagupan City government finally decides to elevate the constantly flooded Galvan Street that has since earned the moniker “Floating Market St.” But it decided to do it during the rainy season and this made vendors wonder if the anti-flooding project is rushing the work in…
THREE persons from Aguilar and Sta. Barbara were arrested following a buy-bust operation by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Aug. 19. Retchie Camacho, PDEA provincial assistant provincial officer and team leader, said the arrested suspects, Lamberto Versoza aka ‘Jing’, his live-in partner Donna Torio, and Edwin…
THE provincial board of Pangasinan passed a resolution on Monday in their virtual session recommending the immediate transfer of the officer-in-charge (OIC) Schools Division Superintendent of Pangasinan 1 due to mounting allegations of graft and corruption. Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza, principal author, wants Sheila Marie Primicias to…
A woman in San Jacinto town tested positive for COVID-9 after giving birth. The town’s information office confirmed that the town’s second case is a 34-year-old woman from Barangay Sta. Maria, and is currently staying in Baguio City. The town’s Rural Health Unit (RHU) clarified the patient went to Baguio…
BACK TO THEIR NATURAL HABITAT – BFAR National Director Eduardo Gongona, Mangatarem Mayor Ramil Ventinilla and BFAR-NIFTDC center chief Westly Rosario release the rehabilitated Olive Ridley and Green sea turtles at the Lingayen Gulf. It was doubly meaningful for Rosario because it also marked his birthday and start of his retirement. (Punchphoto by…
COVID STUDY SHOWS THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) has launched a study aimed at validating the findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) that asymptomatic persons found positive for COVID-19 have bigger chances of recovering as well as having lesser chances of infecting other persons. This was revealed by Dr. Anna…
AS OF AUGUST 14 AS of August 14, Thursday, 25 towns and one city in Pangasinan were considered COVID-19-free, leaving only 22 towns and cities still infected where the 46 active cases come from. According to the monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO), the towns and city deemed free…
FIFTEEN personnel of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) who contracted COVID-19 have fully recovered. In a statement Monday, PPPO said 11 of the 15 patients were isolated in the isolation facility at the provincial command while the other four were quarantined in their respective town isolation facilities. The 15 policemen…
OPLAN PANAGSUBLI SEVENTY-two former NPA regulars in Umingan town surrendered to the government through the Oplan Panagsubli program of the Provincial Task Force to end Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF – ELCAC) in a ceremony held on August 12 at the Provincial Agriculture Field Office in Barangay San Gonzalo in…
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