CAPITOL NEWS “BE responsible as a son and daughter, as a student and as a Pangasinense.” This was the core message of Governor Amado I. Espino III to the new breed of provincial scholars for academic year 2020-2021 who received financial grant from the Provincial Government of Pangasinan. Governor Espino,…
REST IN PEACE, ARCHBISHOP CRUZ — Bishops led by Archbishop Socrates Villegas, members of clergy and parishioners join follow the horse-drawn hearse carrying the ashes of Archbishop Emeritus Oscar V. Cruz, D.D to the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral where he was interred for his final rest. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
19 TOWNS, 2 CITIES COVID-FREE COVID-19 made its biggest surge in Pangasinan last week with 55 cases admitted in different hospitals and the death of one person, against only 19 patients that recovered, according to the daily update by the Provincial Health Office from August 20 to 27. Dasol continues to remain as the only town…
THE world is poorer by his passing away. Heaven has a new jewel. This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas described the passing of Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, popularly called as OVC among priests and close friends here, on his Facebook account. The archbishop died on Aug. 26 due to…
MAJOR REVAMP IN PANGASINAN A MAJOR revamp is taking place among the chief of police in Pangasinan following a major revamp in the hierarchy implemented by the PNP National Headquarters in Camp Crame. The first wave of reshuffling took place on August 27. The chiefs of police in Dagupan City…
STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS 2020 SIGNIFICANT strides were made by the Dagupan City government in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the city, foremost of which was the conduct of mass testing to local frontliners which eventually included market vendors, tricycles drivers and other sectors of the community….
3 PROVINCES STILL CLOSED OF the four provinces in Region I, only Pangasinan has reopened its borders to the three provinces in the region under the guidelines set for Modified Community Quarantine (MCEQ) assigned by the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF). The new situation disappointed Department of Labor and Employment Regional Director Nathaniel…
PROSECUTORS junked the complaints filed by the police against 173 persons arrested in simultaneous anti-illegal gambling operations conducted in Dagupan City and seven towns last August 19 for lack of probable cause. Inquest prosecutors from Dagupan City, San Carlos City, Urdaneta City, and Lingayen, in their separate dismissal orders, ordered…
SAN MANUEL ONLINE COCKFIGHTING RAID A CASE of violation the Presidential Decree No.449 or better known as Cockfigthing Law of 1974 as amended by PD 1602 was filed against ten people caught conducting illegal online cockfight gambling in the house of an official in Barangay Gueset Sur in San Manuel…
NOT SUICIDAL – The lineman of the Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (sitting on top of the electric post) is not threatening to jump but waiting for his fellow linemen’s signal to complete the new line connection along the highway in Binmaley so he can complete his task. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
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