GROUFIE BY THE RIVER –Four young teachers take a selfie to record their first day on board a banca on Calmay River in Dagupan City as they head to their assigned school in one of the island villages. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
Read More
IN DAGUPAN THE new acting police chief of Dagupan City Police Station wants a smiling, well-groomed police force serving Dagupeños. P/Lt. Col. Percival Pineda said the start of serving well is proper grooming which means having a regular haircut, wearing properly pressed uniform and head gear, clean shoes all the…
Expect a well-groomed, smiling police force
THE conflict between Pangasinan State University president Dexter Buted and PSU executive director Marcelo Gutierrez Jr. on one side and Ricardo Tapia on the other appears far from over following a resolution of the third division of the Supreme Court on March 25, 2019 denying the two officials’ appeal. The…
SC turns down Buted’s appeal
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas vehemently denied the allegation of Peter Joemel Advincula, the man claiming to be “Bikoy” in the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” video that he met with some plotters to oust President Duterte. In his statement dated June 6, Villegas said, “On the day and time, December 12, 2018…
Fr. Soc denies involvement in plot to overthrow PDU30
THE health advocates were happy but not the tobacco farmers’ group that was dismayed at the Congress’ passage of the bill increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. In a Bombo Radyo Dagupan interview, Saturnino Distor, president of Philippine Tobacco Growers Association Inc. from the tobacco-producing town…
Tobacco farmers dismayed over hiked excise tax
MIXED EMOTIONS – Kindergarten pupils express ‘mixed emotions’ as they start their first day of classes at West 1 Elementary School. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
MIXED EMOTIONS
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC), in cooperation with the Department of Health (DOH) in the Ilocos Region, will launch an Organ and Tissue Donation Advocacy Campaign on June 25 to create awareness among families of deceased relatives to consider donating the latter’s organs. Through the Philippine Organ Donation and…
R1MC campaigns for organ, tissue donation
PANGASINENSES going to work in Kuwait are advised to go to other host countries. Third District Rep. Rose Marie Arenas has called on the national government to impose a total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Kuwait, particularly, women as household service workers, following the death…
Baby A: Ban OFW deployment in Kuwait
SLEEPY-BORED-EXCITED –Pupils at the West Central Elementary School are caught in different moods as they await instructions from their teachers before entering their classrooms. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SLEEPY-BORED-EXCITED
MANGOES GALORE -– Mango lovers are taking advantage of the lower selling prices in Dagupan City because of unusual abundant supply. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
