THEFT IS MOST COMMON CRIME THE crime rate in Ilocos Region remains low. This was affirmed by the Police Regional Office 1 whose recent data shows that there were only 586 crimes, or 10.53% monthly average in the month of June 2022, compared to 792 cases in June 202 Meanwhile,…
A fish vendor who was stabbed by his drinking partner who went amok and stabbed him on Sunday night, July 24, was rushed to the hospital with critical wounds. The victim, Kevin Mahilom, 25, was having a drinking spree with friends including suspect Osmundo Barboza, both residents of Barangay Poblacion…
A 36-year-old man died after he was stabbed by his own uncle in Barangay Tarece, San Carlos City on Monday night, July 25. Victim Bryan Carlos had another heated altercation with suspect Maximo Carlos, 57, both residents in the barangay, over an unresolved disagreement in the past. At the peak…
A motorcycle backrider died after a road mishap in Natividad town Monday, July 25. Jefferson Keith de Guzman, 36, resident of San Miguel in Natividad town, was driving his car and about to make a turn, when a speeding motorcycle being driven by Raymund Collado, 30, and backrider Mariano Vicente,…
BARANGAYS TOLD TO PREPARE LISTS THE Fernandez administration in Dagupan City appears determined to clear the city’s rivers of illegal fish pens many of which are oversized and constructed along navigational lanes. This became evident after Mayor Belen Fernandez had a consultation meeting with seven barangay chairmen under whose jurisdictions…
ONCE A BRIGHTLY COLORED BRIDGE – The once colorful Pantal Bridge on De Venecia Highway already viewed as a landmark in Dagupan City at night is already a dark structure whose outline can only be seen by oncoming headlights of vehicles. It has since been abandoned by the past city administration and city residents…
FROM P90K TO P30K ALLOCATION THE new majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan is railing against the directive of Mayor Belen Fernandez that each city councilor will be entitled to only three job order (JO) or emergency employees until the end of their term. Their protest manifested in a…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged all local governments in Pangasinan to prepare and provide assistance to all schools, public and private, in their respective jurisdictions when face to face classes open on August 22 leading to its full implementation on November 2, 2022. The resolution, authored by Sixth District Board Member…
NO TRANSPARENCY IN PROJECTS URBIZTONDO mayor Modesto Operania bewailed the lack of transparency in the implementation of projects in the town by former mayor Martin Raul Sison II resulting in doubts about their legitimacy and propriety. Operania, in an interview, cited the town’s People’s Park which did not inform the…
DANGEROUS PLAYGROUND – Children play by the Pantal River practically covered by water lilies behind the Pantal Barangay Hall unsupervised, unaware of a fatal accident waiting to happen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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