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Coping with climate change WHETHER agriculture stakeholders believe it or not, the impact of climate change is not just written on the wall, it is here plainly for everyone to see. The cases of armyworms that attacked onion farms and the unprecedented low yields of corn farms are the strongest…
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ANINAW AWARDS CITE The PUNCH – Editors and staff of The PUNCH bring home their 9 awards from the Phinma University of Pangasinan’s Association of Communication Students. Holding their trophies are (from left): Willie Lomibao (Best Photojournalist), Eva Visperas (Journalist of the Year-Female Category/Best News Writer/Best Feature Writer), Managing Editor Leonardo Micua…
ANINAW AWARDS CITE The PUNCH
OUT OF 20,401 SURRENDEREES SEVENTY-five percent (or 15,404) of the 20,401 drug personalities in Pangasinan who surrendered to the police since the war on drugs was launched by President Rodrigo Duterte in July 2016 have undergone and completed the community-based rehabilitation program (CBRP) in their towns/cities. This was indicated in…
15,404 drug personalities complete rehab
LINGAYEN–Liga ng mga Barangay provincial chairman Jinky Zaplan admitted that only some barangay chairmen have submitted themselves for drug tests and submitted lists of drug personalities in their respective barangays. She made the admission even as she lauded the call of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to voters not…
Not all kapitans have complied with DILG order – Liga prexy
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Pangasinan is now 85 percent ready for the conduct of simultaneous Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in 1,364 barangays all over the province on May 14 this year. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas said the elections will definitely push through after Congress failed to pass…
Comelec all set for May 14 Barangay, SK polls
THE hospital director of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City has appealed to authorities to speed up the investigation and arrest suspects in the kidnapping of its two health workers in broad daylight last March 12 along A.B. Fernandez East this city. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia told…
Police urged to speed up probe on kidnapped R1MC staff
COME TO ME – The statue of Christ the Saviour atop the Pilgrimage Island at the Hundred Islands beckons to throng of visitors arriving at the island to pray and meditate in observance of the the Holy Week. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
