THE municipal government of Bolinao has assured adequate supply of bangus from the town despite its strict implementation of its ‘No fish pen policy’. Bolinao Mayor Arnold Celeste gave the assurance after the implementation of ‘no fish pen policy’ started on January 1. Prior to the implementation of the policy,…
LINGAYEN–Cases of firecracker explosions and injuries caused by stray bullets in Pangasinan decreased by 14 percent as the police and the Department of Health combined registered only 84 cases from December 21 to January 1 as compared to the 94 cases registered last year for the same period. This was…
Firecracker injuries down by 14 percent
LAND Transportation Office in the Pangasinan is set to strictly enforce traffic laws starting January 7 after implementing preemptive measures during the holiday season. Lawyer Teofilo Guadiz III, LTO regional director, said LTO stressed this after the agency adopted a lenient policy during the holiday break and merely sought to…
Campaign vs colorum vehicles, drunk drivers on
AFTER issuing his Christmas message titled “Stand up for the newborn Jesus”, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas gave local media copies of his ”letter” to his godson named Seth on New Year’s Eve which he titled “Be Careful Against Many Anti- Christs.” Villegas wrote “nothing is easy these days when it…
Fr. Soc writes to godson about “anti Christs”
ZERO-FIRE IN PANGASINAN URDANETA CITY—A record of sorts was established in Pangasinan when not a single house was set on fire by firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices during and after 2019 New Year revelry, according to the provincial fire marshal. F/Superintendent Eddie Jucutan attributed the positive development to the successful information…
No house set on fire by firecrackers this year
ALAMINOS CITY—Employees of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources have been working overtime to enable a female blind rough-toothed dolphin that was stranded in the coastal water of Tobuan, Labrador in Dec. 22, to swim out to the sea on its own. In a Dec. 27 report to BFAR…
Stranded blind dolphin in BFAR custody
STUDENTS of Pangasinan do not know it yet but they are now being protected and stand to benefit from the Anti-Hazing law authored by Fourth District Christopher de Venecia. De Venecia sponsored House Bill No. 6573, a proposed act prohibiting hazing and regulating other forms of initiation rites of fraternities, sororities and…
Students now protected by De Venecia’s Anti-Hazing Law
NOT only police chiefs in the region have been reshuffled in their assignments but provincial election officers as well in preparation for the coming May elections. Lawyer Marino Salas who was provincial election supervisor (PES) of Pangasinan for a long time, has been transferred to Ilocos Sur. He was replaced…
Prov’l election supervisors also reshuffled
100 ISLANDS, TOP TOURIST DESTINATION ALAMINOS City Government boosted its coffers by P43,187, 062.19 sourced from the registration fee alone of the 547,490 tourist arrivals to the Hundred Islands in 2018. Mike Sison, city tourism officer, said most of the local tourist arrivals were from the cities of Alaminos, Urdaneta,…
Increased tourist arrivals boost Alaminos revenues
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS FOR their exemplary performance in various fields of service, the top-performing barangays of Dagupan City will receive P300,000 worth of project incentives from the Dagupan City government. The performance incentives for each barangay consist of items or equipment that they can use for disaster preparedness, according to Mayor…




