Tighter control a must with MGCQ WHILE the move to declare Moderate General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) in Metro Manila and other key urban areas in the county is deemed necessary to address the rising cases of hunger, unemployment and slow reboot of the national and local economies, it behooves the…
Editorial February 21, 2021
OUTNUMBERED BUT NOT OUTSMARTED — The fisherman in Binmaley suddenly finds himself competing for fish to catch with almost a hundred birds hovering over him and diving on all sides. As expected his haul for the day was greatly minimized by the hungry birds. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
OUTNUMBERED BUT NOT OUTSMARTED
TARGET PERIOD: MARCH THE provincial government had endorsed the request of three bus companies for special permits from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board that will allow them to resume their inter-provincial operations from Pangasinan to Metro Manila and vice versa. This was confirmed by Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued who said Governor…
Resumption of provincial bus operations urged
DEATH CERTIFICATE, PROSECUTORS’ RESO AMIDST persistent claims and suspicions from some quarters that controversial former board member Raul Sison is still alive, his son, mayor of Urbiztondo, reiterated his family’s earlier announcement that his father died on March 26, 2020 from COVID-19. Mayor Martin Raul Sison posted a video message…
“My father died on March 26, 2020” – Mayor Sison
ESPINO AMBUSCADE ONE of three principal suspects in the ambush of former Congressman Amado Espino Jr., arrested by joint police teams in Poblacion, San Juan, Batangas last February 7 and already detained at the Basista Police jail, was served with six warrants of arrest on February 15. The suspect, Armando…
Jailed suspect served 6 more arrest warrants
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan joined other legislative bodies of local government units in calling for the suspension of the implementation of the controversial Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers (PMVICs), days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered that requiring vehicles to go to PMVICs before a vehicle can be registered is not mandatory….
SP joins call for PMVIC suspension
ONLY 287 NEW CASES THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported that, as of February 18, a decline in cases in Pangasinan was noted with only new 287 active COVID-19 cases registered, 255 of which were from affected towns and cities while 32 were from Dagupan, an independent component city. The…
COVID-19 cases continue to decline in Pangasinan
SITG FORMED AFTER the head of Calasiao town’s Public Order and Safety Office (POSO), Reynaldo Bugayong, 54, was shot dead by still unidentified suspects early Tuesday morning, February 16, a special investigation task group (SITG) was formed by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office to investigate and solve the case. According…
Calasiao POSO chief shot dead
THE Department of Interior and Local Government ruled that the “Special Elections of the Liga ng mga Barangay-Pangasinan Chapter held on 09 December 2020 did not follow the electoral process”. DILG Undersecretary Martin Diño’s Feb. 16 letter to Edgardo Fontelera whom he addressed as “acting president of the Liga ng…
