NO POLITICAL REORGANIZATION OFFICIALS and employees of provincial government heaved a sigh of relief after Governor Ramon Guico III told them during his first flag ceremony at the capitol grounds that reorganization based on politics is not his cup of tea. “We would like to roll our sleeves and get…
COUNTRY’S FUTURE LEADERS REGISTER — The Comelec office in Dagupan City at the 2nd floor of the Sanggunian Bldg suddenly found itself catering to hundreds of young voters on the first day of registration for the December 5, 2022 Barangay and SK Elections. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
FOR BARANGAY, SK POLLS SINCE opening its doors on Monday, July 4, the COMELEC Dagupan Office has been busy processing early registrants – mostly teenagers – for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections on December 5. Teens, aged 15 and above, and also individuals who will turn 15…
THE table has been turned around at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan with the former majority members during the past city administration relegated to the role of minority under the administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez today. At the inaugural session of the SP on July 5, the new majority,…
THE Region 1 Medical Center is offering free Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines for children between the age of nine and ten this month of July. The hospital urges parents to take advantage of the free jabs every Wednesday from 8 a.m. -3 p.m. at the Pediatric Out-Patient Clinic, located at…
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) has recorded 517 dengue cases from January 1 to July 4 this year, or 77 % lower than 2,200 cases recorded for the same period last year. PHO chief Dr. Anna de Guzman said the notable decrease in number of dengue patients is due to…
BUSTED DRUG DEN – The suspected drug den maintainer and four of his cohorts in the illegal drug trading in Dagupan City await their turn during the interrogation after they were nabbed by PDEA and Dagupan police operatives after a successful buy-bust operation. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Dagupan police dismantled another drug den in Dagupan City that led to the arrests of six individuals, among them the den maintainer, in a drug buy-bust operation on Burgos Street, Barangay 4, during the wee hours of July 7. Authorities arrested Dennis de…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez received a big boost on her first day in office, July 1, when the Dagupan Police arrested the No.1 Most Wanted Person in Dagupan City and two other crime suspects in separate police operations in the city. Fernandez commended P/Lt. Colonel Romil Avenido, newly designated…
A 32-year-old chopping board vendor was arrested in a police checkpoint along Barangay Cal-litang, Sta. Maria town, after he was caught in possession of suspected shabu on Monday, July 4. The suspect, Jomar Narvaja, a resident of the town’s Barangay Namagbagan, was flagged down routinely by policemen when authorities discovered…
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