THE MacArthur Park located on a private lot in Barangay Bonuan Gueset where the monument of General Douglas Mac Arthur was erected in the 1980s will still be retained and developed by the current city administration in addition to the new site in Tondaligan Beach. This was announced by Dagupan…
FANGED SUBMITS LETTER JANUARY 6 REGIONAL police director P/Brig. General John Chua and the four provincial directors under him have filed their respective courtesy resignations in response to the call of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin Abalos to all senior officers to submit their courtesy resignations….
TARGET: 50K NEW VOTERS THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Pangasinan recorded 17,971 new registrants for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) on October 2023. Atty. Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor, said 7,275 are SK voters, while 10,690 as regular voters. Salas projects an uptick in the number…
NEW YEAR AT THE BEACH – The crowd scene at the Binmaley Beach on January 1 makes one wish it is what’s in store for people in Pangasinan the whole year – weekly fun for families. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
A notarized administrative complaint will be filed by Sunday PUNCH Publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. before the Office of President and the Department of the Interior and Local Government against Councilor Redford P. Erfe-Mejia for grave abuse of authority and misconduct when he ordered the Sangguniang Panlungsod Secretary to ban Leonardo…
TWO weeks of respite for the long holidays, Task Force Bantay Ilog of the Dagupan City government is back to do its work, monitoring and demolishing illegal fish pens. The Task Force (TF) headed by Abel Abueme, along with a Team from the PNP SWAT began visiting oversized existing illegal…
FIFTY-one victims of firecracker explosion were recorded in the province by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO). The number more than tripled the 16 number of firecracker injuries registered in Pangasinan. P/Major Ria Tacderan, PPPO information officer, however, pointed out that the firecracker victims this year suffered only minor injuries…
NO MACARTHUR STATUE AT THE MARKER – After the Dagupan City government constructed the impressive MacArthur Landing Park at the Tondaligan Beach, visitors are wondering if the statue of General Douglas MacArthur will be erected there to lay claim that he landed in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
GOVERNOR Ramon Guico III will lead the commemoration of the 78th Lingayen Gulf landings and 16th Pangasinan Veterans Day on January 9 at the Capitol Complex in Lingayen. The annual event memorializes the landing of the Allied Liberation Forces led by General Douglas Mac Arthur in the shores of Lingayen…
MOST FIRECRACKER VICTIMS IN PANGASINAN THE New Year revelry in Region 1 was generally peaceful and orderly notwithstanding Department of Health-Center of Health Development’s report that there were 28 victims of firecracker explosions treated in various hospitals as of January 3, 2023. This was the report of P/Brig. General John Chua,…
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