DR. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, has asked the police to watch out for what she called ” firecracker black market” that sell the banned powerful firecrackers in remote villages away from their prying eyes. De Guzman made the call as she revealed that most injuries on…
CALESA RIDE IN DAGUPAN IS MORE FUN – A family experiences the joyride that families of the old relished on a cold night in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TODAY’S centenarians are certainly the luckiest bunch. Past generations’ centenarians never had the attention and care from government like they do today. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)- Field Office 1 reported that 437 centenarians in the region received P100,000 cash in financial gift this year. That’s P43.7…
FOUR years after the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese opened the first theology seminary in Pangasinan, it marked a historic milestone in the ordination of two of its seminarians as priests on Dec. 27 at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John The Evangelist here. “Christopher Kenneth Quimo and Jake Rovillos will go down in…
ALL foreigners residing in Pangasinan had been reminded to report to the office of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) within the first 60 days of the new year (2018) or face administrative fine or imprisonment. This was bared Wednesday by Christopher Abella, immigration officer 1 assigned at the BI office in Dagupan,…
WE’RE LEGIT – The salesgirl manning the display of firecrackers at the designated firecracker zone in front of the NBI office in Babaliwan in Dagupan City gives a sheepish smile as she tries to impress PUNCH lensman Willie Lomibao about the quality of her fireworks and pyrotechnics on display.
MARKET collections as well as collections from building permit fees of the Dagupan City government from January to November this year have increased. According to Aguedo Sta. Maria, head of the city market division, collections in the city market went up to P67 million, so far the biggest revenue intake…
MANGATAREM’S NEW INDUSTRTY MANGATAREM—This ylang-ylang nursery is expected to become soon a farm tourism destination in Barangay Bueno here. The nursery that now hosts thousands of ylang-ylang seedlings, started two years ago as a livelihood project for out-of-school youths. Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil told nursery workers during a Christmas…
MINI NATIVITY SCENE – An antique miniature Nativity Scene from Peru is on display together with other unique collections of ‘Belen’ at the museum of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag Minor Basilica in Manaoag for the “Venite Adoremus – The Story Begins One Night in Betlehem” exhibit. It…
PASEO DE BELEN BARANGAY Pantal’s presentation of its interpretation of the nativity scene (belen) at the Paseo de Belen along De Venecia Highway, was adjudged the best this year. Barangay Pantal was declared as the big winner this year during the Barangay Night at the city plaza on December 27. Led…
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