LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas took the pulpit anew and expounded his views on current political events by providing a contrast between politics of the Marcos regime that led to EDSA People Power in 1986. Villegas referred to the 1986 uprising as a “yellow revolution as history writers saw the yellow…
FINALLY BUSTED – A Dagupan resident waits to be cuffed by police and PDEA operatives after he sold shabu to an undercover cop in a buy-bust operation in Dagupan City. The suspect is listed in the city police and PDEA’s drug watchlist. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
MORE than half a million pesos worth of marijuana products were seized by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) – Pangasinan after a suspected twenty-year-old drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Anolid, Mangaldan town last Tuesday evening, February 22. The suspect, Jhasper Base Dalan,…
ELEMENTS of Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) arrested 69 men, including two barangay captains, inside a cockpit arena in Barangay Malayo, Urbiztondo town on Feb. 22 for alleged illegal cockfighting. P/Lt. Col. Bernouli Abalos, CIDG Pangasinan provincial chief, said while the province is already under Alert Level 2 due…
ONLY 127 ACTIVE CASES GIVEN the downgrading of the province’s risk classification to Alert Level 2 from February 16 to 28 and COVID-19 cases continue to decrease based on records of the Provincial Health Office as of February 17, health authorities are confident that further downgrading to Alert Level 1…
WATCHING OUT FOR LOST KID – Three members of Dagupan’s POSO walk with the little boy looking for his mother after gifting him with a ball to keep him from crying. He was reunited with his mother after a 30-minute search at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Butch…
A PATROLMAN manning a Comelec checkpoint in Dagupan City was allegedly assaulted by a police officer after an altercation over a traffic incident Thursday afternoon, February 17. The PUNCH was able to secure a spot report from a blotter entry at the Dagupan City Police Station about the incident at…
TO be certain that no one among the 901 elected and appointed barangay officials of 21 barangays in Asingan town is a drug user, the local government ordered a surprise drug test for all on February 16. Ordered to take the drug test were officers and members of the Civilian…
LOLO’S PROTECTIVE LOVE — A young boy is hugged by his Lolo to assure him that all’s well while he is administered the anti-Covid vaccine. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
ULTRA VIRES VS. ULTRA VIRES THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan, in its regular session on February 15, passed SP Resolution No. 78893-2022 overriding the veto of Mayor Brian Lim of the SP resolution expressing “this august body’s disappointment for the recent disinformation being conducted by the Public Information Office,…
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