(Filed by 107.4 IFM Dagupan News) Commuters oppose fare increase by modern jeepneys COMMUTERS in Pangasinan are up in arms against the reported plan of transport cooperatives operating modernized public utility vehicles to seek higher fares from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). The cooperatives argued that the…
FROM EAST ZAMBALES FAULT A senior official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs) warned officials of the provincial government, and of towns and cities of a “Big One” that can hit any part of Pangasinan and must prepare for it. Dr. Leonila Bautista, a senior scientist of…
STRICT SCREENING OF VISITS – Relatives of detainees at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penolgy/BJMP Dagupan City, are required to present their food packs intended for their detained relatives for clearance before they are allowed entry inside the facility. Personal effects are checked for contrabands particularly drugs. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE newly-created Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) has identified a professor at the University of the Philippines-Baguio as its first president. Dr. Raymundo Rovillos, a professor at the Department of History and Philosophy, College of Social Sciences of the University of the Philippines Baguio was identified in the resolution filed by…
DUE to the existing El Niño phenomenon, dry period in Pangasinan will persist until the month of May. This was disclosed by PAGASA-Dagupan City Chief Meteorological Officer Jose Estrada Jr. who said that the effects of the dry season started to be felt in the province in December of last…
THE Solid Waste Management Office (SWMO) of Basista town launched a mini-contest among its residents asking them to upload a photo that supports the campaign against plastic on the town’s Facebook account before January 30, as part of its ongoing campaign against the single use of plastic bags. The contest aims to create higher awareness…
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently declared 16 barangays in Manaoag as ‘drug-cleared’. Those cleared barangays include Lipit Sur, Sapang, Calaocan, Bucao, Bisal, Tebuel, Licso, Inamotan, Matulong, Parian, San Ramon, and Pantal. Eight more barangays in town are being processed to be declared drug-cleared. Manaoag Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario…
By Ahikam Pasion Man dies after resto mauling A 30-year-old man died from the mauling by two individuals in a restobar in Barangay Palaris, San Carlos City. A recovered CCTV footage of the crime scene showed victim Samuel de Vera, a resident of Barangay Bolosan, was standing alone at the…
MAN-MADE FLOODING IN THE CITY – Dagupeños were confused. It was hot in the city. No rains, no typhoon were experienced in the Dagupan City for days but the city’s main thoroughfares were flooded, some were knee-deep, some were chest-deep. Little did they know the flooding was caused by a digging…
THE whole of Dagupan City went waterless starting at past 9:00 p.m. on January 10 and was still without water till the following morning after an excavator broke a water transmission line of Pamana Water Corporation at past 10 a.m. that day while digging in the area for a new…
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