DRUMBEATING FOR BANGUS FESTIVAL – The Pandaragupan Tribe makes its presence felt in Barangay Tapuac calling attention to the unheralded 2021 Bangus Festival. Because of seeming inadequate preparations compared to past festivals, suspicion is rife in the city that the Lim administration is hosting a Bulacan Bangus Festival, not the…
STILL THE EPICENTER IN PANGASINAN AS Dagupan City rolls out its plan for the celebration of its Bangus Festival on April 30, nine new COVID-19 cases and one death were reported, effectively raising the number of active cases in the city as of April 22 to 81. While six patients…
ALL TOWNS, CITIES INFECTED AS of April 20, all 48 towns and cities of Pangasinan are already infected with COVID-19. With registered 43 cases, Urdaneta City was moved to the top of the COVID-19 watchlist of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) dislodging Alaminos City with 37 cases as of April…
A clerk in a regional trial court in Tayug town who tested positive for COVID-19 in his antigen test reportedly committed suicide on April 22 in his residence in Barangay Rizal in Natividad town. Crisanto Delos Reyes, 49, shot himself in the head with a cal.38 revolver. Initial police investigation…
THE town of San Manuel became the first local government unit in Pangasinan that received the Seal of Good Education Governance 2020-2021. The seal was awarded during the 14th Washington Sycip National Education Summit for excelling in the delivery of basic education to their constituents amidst the pandemic. Mayor Kenneth…
TOTAL active cases in the whole of Region 1 has risen to 5,154 from 4,443 previous week as 89 more cases were added to the tally last April 20, but officials said the number is still manageable and will not reach the level of cases at the National Capital Region…
TIME-OUT FOR SENIORS – After completing the vaccination of medical frontliners in Dagupan City, the city’s elders are show a video clip about the vaccination at the Dagupan Astrodome while they await their turn for their allocation of the vaccine for senior citizens. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
QUARANTINE PROTOCOL NOT STRICTLY ENFORCED PANGASINAN will go the way of the National Capital Region + if no serious efforts are made to quarantine patients or if local governments will continue to take quarantine very lightly. This was the warning of Wilson Chua, CEO of the Dagupan-based Bitstop, Inc., who…
NO HEALTH DOCUMENTS THE Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) of Dagupan City turned away three persons who obviously had traveled from the National Capital Region (NCR) plus bubble at the border control checkpoint in Barangay Tebeng in the city on Wednesday but failed to produce the required health documents….
THE municipality of Sto. Tomas was cited anew by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police as the lone drug-unaffected town in Pangasinan. PDEA Provincial Officer Dexter Asayco, joined by P/Col. Ronald Gayo, provincial police director, led the awarding of certificate to the Sto. Tomas government…
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