Dagupan’s ill-advised policies IF the Dagupan City government officials do not begin to plan and coordinate its rules with all its agencies, it will soon suffer the fate of the cities of Cebu and Bacolod, whose COVID cases spiked overnight. The decision to further shorten the curfew hour in the…
Editorial September 13, 2020
RED FLAG AT TONDALIGAN BEACH – The beach scene at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City last week is no different from beach scenes in Florida and Rio de Janeiro more than 60 days ago that caused the number of COVID cases to spike 1,000% in the two cities. There are still…
RED FLAG AT TONDALIGAN BEACH
THREAT OF LOCAL TRANSMISSION THREE more patients died in Pangasinan, raising the number of COVID-19 deaths in the whole province to 21 as of September 10, according to the monitoring conducted by the Provincial Health Office (PHO). Meanwhile, 50 patients recovered against 48 newly confirmed prompting Dr. Anna de Guzman,…
COVID-19 claims 3 fatalities, LSIs blamed for spike in cases
A 55-year-old woman in Dagupan City is the latest fatality here due to COVID-19, the fourth in the city, while four new cases have been confirmed on September 9. The city’s information office identified the latest victim as a Filipina-Chinese businesswoman who owns a shop in the city’s main commercial…
Dagupan City records fourth COVID-19 death
WARRANTS of arrest have been issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Magnolia Cayetano of Branch 56 in San Carlos City against the 24 suspects in the attempted murder of former Rep. Amado Espino Jr. and the murder of his driver and police escort. Of the 24 suspects, four were issued…
Wanted for murder: 4 suspects in Espino ambush
OPERATIVES of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), reinforced by the Pangasinan police arrested five persons in a buy-bust operation and raid of a suspected drug den in Barangay Herrero-Perez in Dagupan City. Retchie Camacho, PDEA-Pangasinan assistant provincial officer and operation team leader, identified the suspects as Fidel de Gracia,…
PDEA busts Dagupan drug den, 5 arrested
AN 85-year-old man who escaped from his isolation room at the Region 1 Medical Center when he tested positive for COVID-19, attempted to burn down a town’s isolation facility last September 6 where he was held. The patient from Barangay Gueset Norte in San Manuel town attempted to burn a…
COVID-19 escapee attempts to burn isolation facility
THERE are still 22 or 46 percent of the 48 towns and cities of Pangasinan that are COVID-19-free while 26 remain infected. This was gleaned from the COVID-19 tracker released by the Provincial Information Office on September 8. The COVID-19 free towns are Aguilar, Alcala, Anda, Balungao, Bani, Bugallon, Burgos,…
22 towns still COVID-19-free, 26 infected
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) announced the new set of designated chiefs of police in nine towns and two cities following the reshuffling of officers nationwide. According to P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, PPPO director, the newly installed police chiefs are: P/Lt. Col. Haron Rasid (Binmaley), P/Lt. Col. Luis Ventura Jr….
