Police Lieutenant Celeste Cereno assists “Ana” during an emergency delivery of her baby inside the mobile patrol vehicle. A ROUTINE shift for a police officer at the San Jacinto Municipal Police Station turned into an extraordinary display of quick thinking and compassion when she helped deliver a baby on the…
PANGASINAN ACCOUNTS FOR 59% THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in the Ilocos Region announced that the voter registration list is fully updated and free of discrepancies. According to Atty. Noli Pipo, Regional COMELEC Director, the number of registered voters in Region 1 has reached 3,654,020 based on the list validated…
THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is set to hold a National Convention for all election officers in Region 1, for their training on the new voting machines that will be utilized for the upcoming 2025 National and Local Elections. Atty. Noli Pipo, COMELEC Region 1 director, said this initiative is…
TWO-WAY STREET FOR TRACTOR AND TRICYCLE – The heavily damaged Tondaligan Baywalk is closed to promenaders, walkers and runners except for the wayward tricycle and the tractor tasked to clear the baywalk of debris along the damaged pathway. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
SEVERE Tropical Storm Kristine left an initial estimated damage of P863 million in Pangasinan, mainly to infrastructure, according to data released by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO). Of the total, approximately P622 million was damage to infrastructure, including peeling asphalt overlays on provincial roads, damaged bridges,…
RELIEF and rehabilitation operations were in full swing in Dagupan following the declaration of a state of calamity on October 25, allowed the city government to tap into reserved emergency funds. The declaration sought by Mayor Belen Fernandez in the aftermath of Typhoon Kristine, was contained in a resolution, authored…
THE provincial board approved the 2025 budget for Pangasinan amounting to P7.1 billion, up 27% from this year’s P5.6 billion allocation during its regular session on October 28. Despite the challenges posed by Tropical Storm Kristine the previous week, the provincial board conducted a series of budget hearings on Oct….
MAYOR Belen Fernandez was named Most Inspiring Woman of the Earth in 2024 by India-based global foundation World Against Corruption (WAC) People Council and WAC Book of World Records International. The award was received by Fernandez during the flag-raising ceremony program last Monday at the city plaza, handed to her…
SURPRISE VISITOR — A woman casually walks by the MV Xavier I vessel bound for Sual that ran aground at the beach in Binmaley town during the storm surge triggered by severe tropical storm Kristine Wednesday night. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
A CASE FOR OMBUDSMAN, NOT CAPITOL THE new order of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) suspending Urdaneta Mayor Julio Parayno III for another one year — which supposedly took effect on October 14, before his 90-day preventive suspension was to expire — was considered null and void based on the October…
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