BEACHGOERS in Binmaley town were unduly alarmed when the color of the beach’s water appeared differently that others mistook it for an oil spill. “Parang kulay-putik siya, akala naming oil spill”, said Melissa, a tourist from Benguet. Patrick Andrada of the Binmaley Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO)…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) PNP assures no indiscriminate gun firing on New Year’s eve P/Brig.General Lou Evangelista, police regional office 1 director, expressed confidence that there will be no indiscriminate firing of guns by policemen and decided not to put a tape the nozzle of their firearms. He…
POLICE CONTROL FIRECRACKER SALE – A policeman in Dagupan City stands guard inside the designated firecracker selling zone, watching out for clandestine selling of banned firecrackers. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
MAYOR Belen Fernandez ordered the police and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) to seek out clandestine firecracker factories in Dagupan following a big firecracker explosion in Barangay Malued on Christmas Day where five persons, including a child, were hurt and seven houses destroyed. Exasperated over the incident, Fernandez called…
FOUR unidentified armed men held up at gunpoint three women inside a dental clinic in Barangay San Vicente, Urdaneta City at around 3:40 p.m. on December 26. The suspects armed with a short firearm tied their victims and took away from them six cellular phones, cash money worth more than…
OVER A LAND INHERITANCE ANOTHER land dispute among siblings in San Carlos City caused a man to stab his younger brother in Barangay Lipas, last December 23. Stabbed by his 51-year-old brother Wilfredo Ramos, Jolly Ramos, 50, was stabbed in the head, leg and arm and was rushed to the…
EMPTY SEATS OF BOYCOTTING COUNCILORS – Seats reserved for Councilors Librada Reyna-Macalanda, Marilou Fernandez, Redford Erfe-Mejia, Irene Lim-Acostas, Alvin Coquia, Celia Chua-Lim and Alfie Fernandez are empty during the roll all in last December 19’s regular session. The session was later adjourned for lack of quorum. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THIRD DELAYING TACTIC OF MAJORITY THE December 19 regular session of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod adjourned without a chance to discuss the pending P150 million Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Dagupan City. Reason: There was no quorum since all seven members of the majority block were absent. Councilors Alfie Fernandez,…
THE Dagupan City government has began its search for a new alternative to help solve the worsening garbage disposal in the city after Sure Global backed out from the Waste to Energy project that was supposed to build a 15-million dollar facility that can convert garbage into diesel fuel and gas…
TRAFFIC enforcers of the Dagupan City Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) have been ordered not to greet motorists with usual Christmas and New Year greetings openly lest their gestures are interpreted to mean they are soliciting cash gifts. Arvin Decano, POSO Dagupan chief said the order was issued to…
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