A 51-year-old Filipino–Italian balikbayan from Toreno Italy who arrived in Calasiao town was considered a Person Under Monitoring (PUM) and ended up arrested for refusing home quarantine as part of the measures to curb the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). P/Lt. Col. Joseph Fajardo Jr., chief of the Calasiao Police Station,…
SIX persons were booked by the police in Pangasinan last week for resisting arrest and violating rules prescribed for Enhanced Community Quarantine ordered throughout Luzon by President Rodrigo Duterte. The driver and conductor of a mini-bus marked “Margate” bound for Dagupan from Camiling, Tarlac were arrested after their bus was intercepted by the police on Solis…
Community Quarantine is about Pangasinan THE declaration of “Community Quarantine” covering Metro Manila should not be construed to mean that its effects don’t have impact on life in Pangasinan, because it does. The provincial, town and city governments and residents of Pangasinan should take the seeming drastic measures that include…
YEHEY! NO MORE CLASSES – A boy happily yells at the beach as he feels the gentle wave rolling around him. The added benefit for the parents of the playful kids is the knowledge that the summer heat helps fight off the COVID-19 virus. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ALL TRACED CONTRACTS, NO SYMPTOMS GOOD news! The Pangasinan balikbayan, a Fil-Aussie, who contracted COVID-19 has recovered and all the persons who had close contact with her here tested negative of the virus. This was announced last Thursday by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Anna De Guzman in a meeting with…
RETURNING FIL-AUSSIE WITH COVID-19 THREE persons are poised to be arrested and charged in court for illegally posting pictures of the a Filipino-Australian woman who tested positive of COVID -19 upon her return to Australia on March 2 after attending a school reunion in Dagupan City and Lingayen on February…
MOST of the forest areas around the Daang Kalikasan in Mangatarem are covered by or applied for tenurial instruments between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and people’s organizations and individuals for the purpose of reforestation. This was gleaned from the briefing of Atty. Arlyn Katherine Buduhan, community environment, and…
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