FREE HAIRCUT FOR FRONTLINERS – The Pangasinan Medical Society brought a team of haircutters to Region 1 Medical Center to service the frontliners who have not had the luxury to visit parlors and barber shops for over 45 days. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DEPUTY Speaker and Third District Rep. Rose Marie Arenas said Congress can best serve the public interest and at the same time assert its exclusive Constitutional prerogative by expediting the deliberations on the long-pending bills for the renewal of ABS-CBN’s franchise and by resolving the same once and for all….
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has appealed to the members of Congress to act swiftly on the pending renewal of the congressional franchise of network giant ABS-CBN that was ordered Tuesday by the National Telecommunications Commission to cease and desist from operating. In a statement written entirely in Filipino, Villegas, said…
WE’VE heard of virtual meetings so why not virtual flag-raising ceremony? This was exactly what the local government of Bayambang did when it held its first virtual Monday flag-raising ceremony, possibly the first to be done by a local government unit in the country prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayor…
JUST as the 27th COVID-19 patient was being released by the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan on May 6, a probable case was reported on the same day by the Mapandan’s local government. Mayor Anthony Penullar of Mapandan said the Region 1 Medical Center informed him that the…
THE 46 Pangasinenses who were stranded at the Regional Border Control Point in San Manuel (Tarlac) by the Rosales Boundary, were allowed to enter the province and were fetched by their respective local government units and municipal/city health offices on May 7. Pangasinan Provincial Police Office Director Redrico Maranan said…
MOBILE DRUGSTORE – Residents of a far-flung barangay in Lingayen patiently await their turn as they take advantage of the presence of a mobile drugstore in their barangay arranged by the municipal government. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE Society of Filipino Foresters, Inc. (SFFI) is pushing for the passage of the Sustainable Forest Management Act (SFMA) now pending at the House of Representatives and Senate to prepare for the “new normal” when the COVID-19 pandemic has been contained. Forester Tommy Valdez, SFFI national council president, said the…
THE Go Biker youth organization decided to be frontliner in the fight against COVID-19 by visiting senior citizens in their homes in Bugallon town to check on their blood pressure and sugar level. Go Biker Project founder Edren Llanillo said the group adopted the “Ronda Kalusugan” program as its mission…
A truck loaded with 200 bags of rice, was delivered by Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia to Dagupan for his second wave of assistance to the residents in the city who cannot return to work because of the existing Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine that has been extended to May…
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