A meat vendor at the Bayambang public market is the latest fatality in the province. The fatality, a 58-year-old male from Barangay Darawey in Bayambang town, was initially brought to a hospital in Bayambang on the morning of August 27 when he manifested symptoms of COVID-19 infection. He was transferred…
THE Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) headquarters in San Fernando City, La Union is under second indefinite lockdown after five police personnel tested positive for COVID-19. P/Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr, PRO1 director, said the lockdown was made effective September 1 until the results of the 40 policemen who were…
FIVE Modular Smart Houses were procured by the San Carlos City government as an additional isolation facility to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Information Office on Tuesday said the procurement was made to further strengthen its response against the onslaught of the virus. “Five Modular Smart Houses will be…
BINALONAN Mayor Ramon Guico Jr. has placed the residence of a new confirmed COVID-19 case in Zone 7, Barangay Dumayat on granular lockdown for two weeks effective Sept. 2. Guico confirmed the new active case as the fourth confirmed COVID-19 case in the town and said the order to place…
THE Primary Health Care Facility (PCF) in Sual town located in Barangay Cauayan was temporarily closed effective 6 p.m. on August 29 on order of Mayor Liseldo Calugay after six of its staff tested positive for COVID-19. Calugay’s E.O. No. 50 cited the need to disinfect and sanitize the facility…
UNDISCIPLINED COMMUNITY – After the Dagupan City’s Solid Waste Disposal and Management Office removed the garbage bin installed at the foot of the Franklin Bridge, a tourist spot, residents continued to dump their garbage in the same area. No one is taking the warning “Bawal mgatapon ng basura dito,” seriously and the city government does…
NON-PAYMENT OF RENTALS THE Lingayen Treasury Office ordered the closure of 21 stalls inside the town public market for their failure to pay their rentals despite months of extension of payment of their dues. Although there’s pandemic, the Municipal Treasury Office (MTO) said their repeated failure to pay their monthly…
ARCHBISHOP CRUZ’S LEGACY – The AGCO LA Movement holds its contra jueteng, drugs and prostitution public rally at the Dagupan City Plaza, inspired by then Archbishop Oscar Cruz in year 2001. (Punchphoto file by Willie Lomibao)
A college professor and his girlfriend have long opened their hearts and pockets to care for the sick and abandoned elderly who slept on street sides of Dagupan City. Despite his meager income, Reynald Soriano, 36, who works at the University of Luzon, and his girlfriend , Christine, have already…
HELP FOR FELLOW SENIOR CITIZEN-BATCHMATES – Members of the Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS) Batch ’78 pack relief food items that include face masks and shields for distribution to their batchmates, all senior citizens, severely affected by the series of community quarantine since March. {Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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