POLICE Regional Office 1 will strictly enforce the firecracker ban during the celebration of the Christmas holiday and New Year revelry. P/Brig. General Emmanuel Peralta, PRO 1 regional director, said R.A. No. 7183 that regulates the manufacture and distribution of firecrackers will be strictly enforced on orders of Chief PNP…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod will hold a marathon hearing this week to act on and approve the executive budget for 2022 submitted by the office of Mayor Brian Lim before the year ends. However, Majority Floor Leader Michael Fernandez warned that if the mayor’s office fails to submit complete documents to…
CHRISTMAS COLORS BY THE MANAOAG CHURCH – The town’s residents and their visitors take pride in their own brightly lit Christmas setting in front of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE number of active COVID-19 cases in Region 1 last week was down to 280 as cases continued their downward trend in all the region’s four provinces, including Dagupan City. The latest monitoring of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 on December 8 showed La Union with the…
PANGASINAN is experiencing continuous decline of COVID-19 based on data in recent weeks tallied by each municipality and city showing single digits in new cases. This was bared by Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, provincial disaster risk reduction and management officer, and a member of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the…
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) has been recording single-digit number of new COVID-19 cases since December 2. This was shown by the COVID-19 monitoring bulletin, including the 4-cases of a seven-day average cases in the province from December 2 to 8, compared to the previous week’s 10 new cases average…
Children are better at the beach than inside malls. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez) THE ban on minors aged 12 years and below in malls and other enclosed places got an overwhelming endorsement from parents in Dagupan City when asked during a session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) on December 7. Heads…
THERE are already 1,065 barangays, out of 1,272 barangays in Pangasinan that have been declared drug-cleared, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). The updated figure was bared by PDEA Pangasinan provincial officer Retchie Camacho after 16 barangays from the town of Umingan, Sual, San Fabian and Dagupan City…
NON-OPERATION OF BUS TRIPS TO MM THE decision to restore daily regular trips from Pangasinan to Metro Manila (MM) lies with the bus companies not, the provincial government. This was stressed by Vice Governor Mark Lambino in last week’s session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), who said the provincial legislative…
CHRISTMASSY CAPITOL – Lingayen residents have begun feeling the Christmas spirit in the air amid the pandemic since the provincial government lit up the Capitol building and giant Christmas tree. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
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