WE ARE THE BEST– Dr. Dexter Buted (left), president of Pangasinan State University, joins the officials and faculty members of PSU in celebrating on stage after receiving the Philippine Quality Award, the highest level of national recognition for exemplary organizational performance from the Department of Trade. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DOWN BY 48.9% THE Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 (DOH-CHD 1) reported a significant decrease of 43,351 cases, or 48.9 percent, in the number of active cases in the region from a reported 88,653 total number of cases. But it was this good news that prompted Dr. Rheuel…
PROV’L IATF CONFIRMS THE daily average of COVID-19 cases in the province continues to decrease for the last few weeks, according to the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (PIATF). During the Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on Monday, PIATF member Rhodyn Lunchivar Oro said the province only recorded 202 average COVID-19…
AFTERMATH OF MARING – A bulldozer from Dagupan City Engineering Office clears the Tondaligan Beach Baywalk of beach sand that was swept to the area at the height of Typhoon Maring. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
FARMERS and fishermen in Pangasinan suffered an estimated P263.7 million in losses as a result of the strong winds and heavy rains brought about by severe tropical storm ‘Maring’ last week. This amount of damages to farmlands and fishponds was reported by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office…
MEMBERS of the Small-Scale Fish Consignment Owners Association are prepared to show proof in court to back their accusation that they were made to pay “kotong (protection) money” up to P25,000 a month allegedly to members of the Market Marshal unit for the privilege to stay before in their area located…
COVID PROTOCOL DURING CALAMITY – The Calasiao Police patrol flooded areas on banca armed with a placard reminding residents about need to observe distance protocol as people even as they cope with waist-deep floodwater. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
A FAMILY of four were buried alive when a concrete wall collapsed and crushed their house following a mud slide in mountainous Sitio Paliwan, Barangay Sagunto in Sison town at about 6:10 p.m. on October 12 at the height of Typhoon Maring. A report of P/Major Arturo Melchor Jr., public…
THOUGH Pangasinan will remain under the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions and Dagupan still under GCQ from October 16 to 31, the critical stage may have already passed with only 1,154 active COVID-19 cases as of October 14, as compared to 1,954 cases on October 7. Things appeared to…
THE proposed large-scale Offshore Mining Project in the Lingayen Gulf not only violates Proclamation 156 issued in 1993 by then President Fidel V. Ramos but also other earlier presidential proclamations and pertinent laws later enacted by Congress. This was disclosed by Prof. Irene de Vera, head of the health, energy,…
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