THE documentation and gathering of pieces of evidence on the broad-daylight killing of retired P/Brig. General Marlou Chan in Calasiao two months ago is almost complete. This was bared by P/Col. Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, when asked on the status of the slaying of Chan, who once served as…
CODE COVID-19 – Gov. Amado Espino III presides over the emergency meeting of the Inter-Agency meeting on containment efforts against COVID-19 in Pangasinan on Friday. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan directed the suspension of all barangay fiestas including Sangguniang Kabataan activities in the province amid the COVID-19 crisis. Board Member Jose G. Peralta, Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial Federation president, author of Resolution No. 314-2020, said the directive forms part of the precautionary measures adopted by the…
LINGAYEN Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil was found negative of COVID-19 when he submitted himself to a confirmation test at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) after a Fil-Aussie woman whom he met at a class reunion in Dagupan City tested positive. Bataoil was one of the 150 persons who had a close…
THREE persons in Pangasinan, all of whom have history of travel and showed respiratory symptoms, were admitted and placed in isolation as Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) in still undisclosed hospitals in the province. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said two PUIs are Overseas Filipino Workers (one was a…
NOT A HOLD-UP — But it is also not the correct way of checking body temperature of the senior guy with the use of the portable thermo scanner. The scanner is supposed to be at least two-inches away from the forehead. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
MOST of the 150 persons known to have met and mingled with the Filipino-Australian from Pangasinan during a class reunion and a breakfast with classmates on February 22 and 23, have been traced and were confirmed not to have the symptoms of COVID-19. This was confirmed by Dr. Ana de…
WHILE many crowd-drawing activities in the entire country had been cancelled because of COVID-19, the Dagupan Bangus Festival, whose main features is the crowd-drawing “Kalutan ed Dalan” will be staged on April 30 as scheduled. Informed of this, Dr. Rosario Pamintuan, chief of the regional disease surveillance unit of the Department of…
AMID COVID-19 THREAT LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has urges the faithful not to leave God out of the threat of COVID-19. In a pastoral message on March 10, Villegas said the epidemic of “godless fear” of the unknown is spreading “so there’s a need return to the basics of Catholic…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) will soon create the Person-In-Crisis Inter-Agency Action Committees (PIC-IAAC) to help individuals with suicidal tendencies. P/Lt. Rosemarie Reate, head of the committee on public safety and security, said the PIC-IAAC will primarily provide immediate intervention for individuals with suicidal thoughts. Reate cited data from…
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