12 MORE TO GO WITH finally only 12 barangays (in three towns and two cities) of the originally 1,271 drug-affected barangays in the province to clear, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) remains optimistic that the whole province will be declared drug free until December from its level. P/Chief Inspector Norman…
URDANETA City became the second city in Pangasinan to be declared drug-free while Bayambang is the latest town in the province to be declared drug-free as well by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office. For Urdaneta City, the declaration was issued after all it’s 34 barangays have been finally cleared from…
P/SUPERINTENDENT Franklin O. Ortiz has been officially appointed as city’s permanent chief of police, six months after serving in an officer-in-charge capacity of the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) starting April this year. Ortiz received his appointment from the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office on October 27, giving him full authority to carry…
THE chief of police of Dagupan City has expressed confidence that the city will be declared drug-free before Dec. 31 this year in keeping with the target deadline set by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) that the province of will be cleared of drugs before the year ends. P/Superintendent Franklin…
BINMALEY— After savoring a broiled whole Dagupan bangus, don’t throw away its fish bone. It’s valuable to a 24-year old artist from Binmaley, the Fish Bowl of Pangasinan. Jessica Lopez from Barangay Gayaman this town told The PUNCH in an interview that she’s using fish bones as medium because aside…
PAGING OWNERS – Personnel of the Dagupan City PNP keep a close watch over impounded motorcycles and tricycles recovered by police operatives from a syndicate of carnappers while waiting for owners to claim their stolen units. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
NEW DAGUPAN CITY HALL THE Dagupan City government allocated P90 million from the city’s Annual Investment Plan (AIP) for calendar year 2017-2019 for the site development of the proposed new city hall to be built on a 1.2-hectare donated land in Barangay Pantal. Councilor Jeslito Seen, chairman on the committee…
ANY call to rehabilitate and improve the state of the two overcrowded Roman Catholic Cemeteries and the adjacent Independent Church cemetery in Dagupan City should be directed at the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese and local Independent Church, not the city government. This was the clarification made by Dagupan Councilor Jose N. Tamayo…
AFTER the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese stopped the pealing of bells to protest the killings in the war on drugs declared by the Duterte administration last Thursday, Nov. 2, the “start the healing” campaign will be launched today, Nov. 5. In an ABS-CBN interview last Thursday, Lingayen-Dagupan Auxiliary Bishop Jose Elmer Mangalinao…
BASURA MO, IUWI NO ALAMINOS City – The “Basura mo, Iuwi mo” campaign of the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) and the city government that engages and teaches visitors to keep the islands clean and to be ecologically responsible, is one campaign worth duplicating in other tourist destinations in the…
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