THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) is seeing people’s positive response to President Rodrigo Dutere’s call to be vaccinated with more than 3,000 persons already being administered vaccines weekly (3 sessions weekly). This was confirmed by Dr. Joseph Mejia, R1MC hospital chief, in an interview on Monday, October 25 and…
FOR PROTECTION VS TSUNAMI, EARTHQUAKE, FLOODS THR Sangguniang Panlalawigan adopted contingency plans for earthquake and tsunami, and for rain-induced and earthquake to secure the safety of more than two million Pangasinenses owing to its proximity to the Lingayen Gulf and the West Philippine Sea and the mountainous terrains. The plans…
THREE family members were injured when the head of the family stabbed them at dawn of Oct. 26 inside their residence in Chico St., Barangay San Vicente, Urdaneta City. Injured were mother-in-law, Josephina Lapeña, wife Jodina Lapeña, and daughter Omyra, 13. Suspect Ismael Marurombsar, 58, was reportedly being restrained by…
A FAITH-healer who was tagged as No. Top 1 Most Wanted Person in San Jacinto town was placed under arrest by the San Jacinto Police on the night of October 25 while in detention at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology male dorm in Las Pinas City. The alias warrants…
THE San Jacinto police are still investigating the report of a sexagenarian widower about a missing urn that contains his late wife’s ashes placed inside a tomb at the municipal cemetery. P/Major Edgar Serquiña, town police chief, said Alberto de Guzman, 62, of Barangay Pag-asa this town, went to the police…
NO FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES ONLY 30 schools nationwide will push through with the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes scheduled to start on Nov. 15 and no school in Pangasinan has been included so far. Cesar Bucsit, head of the Public Affairs Unit at the Office of the Regional Director of…
CASH AID FOR NON-SSS MEMBERS – Lola Esperanza Manaois, who doesn’t get any pension from SSS being a non-member, receives P3,000 cash from the City Social and Welfare Development as cash aid every other month. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) urged city and municipal governments to bring the vaccination program of the government to far-flung areas in their jurisdictions in order to attain the province’s herd immunity as soon as possible. PHO chief Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman told the Sangguniang Panlalawigan during its…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is endorsing the proposed dredging of the Dagupan River from its delta towards upstream by a Manila-based construction company that will undertake the activity using its own funds, with not a single centavo as counterpart from the city government. In return, it will have sole right…
THE mayor and vice mayor of Asingan are also running unopposed, like the mayor of Mangatarem, for next year’s elections. Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr and Vice Mayor Heidee Chua, both in their first term only, have no challengers to their re-election bid for the May 9, 2022 elections. This was…
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