THREE persons met their unfortunate end in separate accidents in Calasiao, Sison and Anda towns last Wednesday, July 28. Sophia Mae Episcope, three years old, of Barangay Poblacion West in Calasiao town drowned in the floodwater outside their house. According to police investigation, the victim’s mother, Janice, woke up only…
ILLEGAL TRANSPORT – To evade detection by law enforcers, traders hauling long bamboos using jeepneys to buyers, most of whom are owners of illegal fish pens, take internal roads in Calasaio town without regard to public safety. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
A 32-year-old ex-convict was arrested in a drug buy-bust operation by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) along De Venecia Highway, Barangay Lucao, Dagupan City on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, July 28. Retchie Camacho, PDEA Assistant Provincial Officer, said the suspect, Jerwin Borleo Liabres, a former resident of Bliss Bonuan…
TEN IDENTIFIED IN PANGASINAN DUE to the continuing spike of COVID-19 cases, 54 towns and cities in Region 1 were recently classified as high risk areas by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 (DOH-CHD 1). Dr. Rheuel Bobis, COVID-19 focal person in Region 1 and spokesman of DOH-CHD…
EXPOSING THE CHILDREN – Families quickly take advantage of the decision of the Dagupan City government opening the Tondaligan Beach for swimming, bringing with them children unmindful of government’s caution of exposing them in public areas. (Note: The IATF withdrew its resolution on Friday allowing children to go out in public…
HIGH RISK AREAS DAGUPAN City and other cities/towns have started inoculating A-4 population or workers in the essential sector with COVID-19 vaccines starting July 13 after they were classified as high risk areas for COVID-19 by the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (RESU) of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development…
TWO multi-purpose evacuation centers will be constructed in Barangay Pangapisan in Lingayen and Barangay Papagueyan in Binmaley by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) this year. Governor Amado Espino III led the ground-breaking rites for the two projects in Lingayen and Binmaley last July 15 that will be funded…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will only closely monitor the activities of candidates after they filed their certificates of candidacy starting October but it will not hold the candidates accountable for premature campaigning between now and October. In a press conference organized by the Philippine Information Agency-Pangasinan last Wednesday, Comelec…
RUMBLE AT THE PARK – The police arrived in time to stop the rumble between two warring teenage groups at the Japanese Garden in Tondaligan Beach. No charges were filed but parents were asked to fetch their children from the police station. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE police have ascertained so far that the motives behind the killings of three barangay officials in Pangasinan this month were not due to politics. P/Major Arturo Melchor Jr, spokesman of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, said the police are set to file charges until next week against the suspects…
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