Urgency for Department of Disaster Resiliency THE recent flood disaster in Cagayan and Isabela of catastrophic proportion this month, and in recent years in our own region, definitely and completely provide the urgency to create the Department of Disaster Resiliency and Emergency Management. Why it doesn’t seem so for our…
Editorial November 22, 2020
BLUE & WHITE CHRISTMAS — Dagupan City Councilor Celia Lim meets with medical frontliners from different hospitals in Dagupan City in front of the newly installed giant Christmas tree at the city plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BLUE & WHITE CHRISTMAS
FROM A HIGH OF 450 IN OCTOBER THE fight against COVID-19 in Pangasinan has shown it continues to gain headway after the province registered a significant drop in the number of active cases to 246 (as of November 16) from 450, its highest number of cases registered last October. This…
COVID-19 case drops by 45 percent — provincial IATF
THE local government of Sison has bemoaned The PUNCH’S headline news last week that the town is already the “new epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic”. In a statement dated Nov. 16 posted in its official Facebook page, it said that the actual situation in the municipality of Sison is far from…
Sison LGU denies town is new epicenter of COVID-19
NOT RELAXING BUT ADJUSTING IN CHECKPOINTS THE Pangasinan Police already arrested 88,662 persons that violated health and safety protocols since the COVID-19 pandemic started in mid-March this year. This was revealed by P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, during the Question Hour of the virtual session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
88k arrested for violating health, safety protocols
AFTER seven months, the road clearing operations in all towns and cities as ordered by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) have resumed. Paul Lalata, DILG Pangasinan provincial director, said the road operations officially started on November 16 and will continue through January 15, 2021 for validation. Lalata…
Road clearing operations resumes in Pangasinan
ANOTHER P100,000 has been added to the P200,000 reward being offered by a group of businessmen in eastern Pangasinan for vital information that could lead to the speedy arrest of perpetrators in the gun slay of a local journalist on Nov. 10 in Villasis. Local businessman Rosendo So, representing the…
Another P100K reward offered for Maganes killers’ capture
RUSHING 2021 CITY BUDGET — Dagupan Vice Mayor Bryan Kua listens in on the discussion of the city councilors on the annual budget of the Dagupan City government during a recess inside the session hall. In photo are Councilors Chito Samson, Marvin Fabia, Cisco Flores, Karlos Reyna and SP Secretary Ryan…
RUSHING 2021 CITY BUDGET
TYPHOON Ulysses’ strong winds and rainfall caused P26 million in damages to both agriculture and infrastructure in 20 towns and 46 barangays in Pangasinan. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office ((PDRRMO) reported 476 families or 1,806 individuals were moved to evacuation centers and higher grounds as Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal…
