Filed by Ahikam Pasion Farmer arrested for drug trafficking A farmer was arrested after being caught with illegal drugs in Malasiqui town. The police conducted a drug buy-bust operation on Rizal Street, Brgy. Poblacion, against the suspect identified as Sonny Ico Balberan, also known as “Bernard,” 39 years old, a…
BANGUS HARVESTING STILL GOING ON THE earlier report that a fishkill struck in Anda town on June 4 was promptly clarified as an isolated fish mortality that happened in Anda town. Elizabeth Tomas, municipal agriculturist, made the clarification during an online press conference hosted by the Bureau of Fisheries and…
DESPITE CALLS FROM 31 BARANGAYS MAYOR Belen Fernandez again entered the lions’ lair, the Sangguniang Panlungsod, on Tuesday (May 28) to appeal to the opposition comprising the majority to act on the long overdue Supplemental Budget No. 2-2024 amounting to P557 million, needed to implement the programs for 31 barangays….
SANTACRUZAN 2024 – Young girls bedecked with flowers gleefully wave their letters to spell ‘Ave Maria’ before the start of the Mayflower & Santacruzan 2024 parade Thursday, May 30, 2024, at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral. The grand Santacruzan is the culmination of the Flores de Mayo, a Catholic flower festival honoring Mary. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
VICE Governor Mark Lambino defended the US trip of some members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) and department heads from June 1 to 9, saying they were invited by a group of Pangasinenses to attend special occasions and their foreign travel authority were approved by the Department of Interior and…
THE City Health Office confirmed the order to require all Dagupan City Hall employees to wear face masks in their work places because of the threat of another upsurge of COVID-19. During the flag ceremony at the city plaza on May 27, City Health Officer Ophelia Rivera said COVID-19 is…
A WORLD War II-era submarine was discovered in Dasol Bay. The sunken USS Harder (SS-257) was found by The Naval History & Heritage Command – Underwater Archaeological Branch of the United States Navy on Thursday, May 23 using data collected by The Lost 52 Project, an organization dedicated to locating…
(Filed by IFM DAGUPAN NEWS) PDRRMC preparing for coming of La Nina THE Pangasinan Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office stated preparations for the possible impact of La Niña, such as floods, storm surges and heavy rains, throughout the province. During the recent PDRRMC 2nd Quarter Meeting led by…
TWO high value targets for drug peddling were arrested by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a buy -bust entrapment in Barangay Tombor, Binmaley town that yielded P1.3 million worth of suspected shabu. PDEA Pangasinan Provincial Officer Rechie Camacho identified the suspects as Herodotus Marquez aka Dodo, 59,…
A BUY-BUST joint operation by operatives made by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Calasiao Police Station resulted in the arrest of a woman on May 23 at around 1:50 p.m. in Barangay San Miguel, Calasiao town. About 50 grams of shabu worth P340,000 inside a plastic were confiscated from…
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