THE Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) has a new chief of police! P/Lt. Col. Louise Benjie Tremor, who served in Ilocos Sur, succeeds P/Lt. Col. Luis Ventura Jr. as the city’s police chief. At the turnover ceremony held at the Dagupan City Police Station last January 14, Dagupan City Mayor…
THERE are still 27 towns and one city that remain drug-cleared in Pangasinan based on data released by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). These are the towns of Basista, Laoac, Dasol, Mapandan, Natividad, Anda, Mabini, Alcala, Malasiqui, Burgos, Sta. Maria, Sison, Aguilar, Bugallon, Lingayen, Bayambang, Mangatarem, Rosales, Labrador, Calasiao,…
PANGASINAN posted only 3% positivity rate, disputing the report of UP OCTA Research Group that the province has a high positivity rate of 18%. This was confirmed by the Provincial Information Office on January 14, quoting Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, that the intensified mass testing conducted by…
CLEARING OPERATIONS – Personnel of the city police, POSO and barangay officials direct vendors to clear sidewalks during clearing operations in Arellano St. in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE series of successful drug operations and campaign against crime of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, earned for the latter the citation as top performing provincial unit in the region. Based on the operational accomplishment released by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office led by P/Colonel Ronald Gayo, provincial director, 61…
COP’S VIRTUAL SESSION – Newly installed Dagupan chief of police P/Lt. Col. Benjie Tremor officially meets members of the Sanguuniang Panlungsod via Zoom. He is shown discussing his agenda with Vic Mayor Bryan Kua. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
SEVERAL residences in Bugallon town were placed on granular lockdown effective January 19 by Mayor Priscilla Espino due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the town. In her Executive Order No. 2021-012, Series of 2021, Mayor Espino declared glandular lockdown on the residences and their immediate neighborhoods, compound…
A RESOLUTION of the Sangguniang Bayan of Mangaldan urgently recommending to Mayor Marilyn Lambino the implementation of the preventive suspension against Barangay Chairperson Melinda Morillo for 60 days was rejected by the mayor herself. The resolution dated 17 December 2020 and signed by nine councilors and one abstaining stemmed from…
THE San Carlos City government recently inaugurated the new City Health Office’s laboratory that will deliver basic laboratory services to city residents and from neighboring towns. The new laboratory, under the level 2 category, provides blood count (CBC), urinalysis, stool test, systolic blood pressure and can facilitate advanced laboratory tests…
THE Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau (HFSRB) of the Department of Health (DOH) has finally issued a license to the Pangasinan Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory allowing it to conduct Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests. Located at the premises of the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in Barangay Bolingit, San Carlos City, the…
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