THE provincial government will begin buying palay from local farmers at the start of the rice harvest season this year, according to Governor Amado Espino III. At the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the Department of Agriculture and the Pangasinan provincial government for the rehabilitation of the Rice…
THE Dagupan City government has deployed 18,861 vaccines COVID-19. The City Health Office (CHO) has reported that as of June 2, 2021, 13,179 persons have been administered the first dose of the vaccine. The recipients include the A1 priority groups or the front liners where 4,119 received their shots at…
RIDING FOR MEN’S HEALTH — Bikers (men and women) in Pangasinan and other neighboring provinces riding classic and vintage motorbikes in formal-casual attires coast through the streets of Dagupan City for the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride’ (DGR) to promote awareness on prostate cancer and men’s mental health. Dagupan City was one of 16 cities in the Philippines that…
SP OKS CUTTING OF TREES THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) belatedly hailed a resolution of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) in March this year that has given the green-and go for the resumption of the widening of roads that will finally cut and remove all trees obstructing the…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Brian Lim is responding well to the treatment protocol being given him by his doctors at the Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Medical Hospital where he has been confined since May 25 for COVID-19. This was the latest medical update as of May 27 released by Drs. Jennifer Ann…
152 PRIVATELY-OPERATED BEACH SHEDS THERE are 152 beach sheds operating at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City whose owners are profiting from their daily operations but are not paying any taxes to the city government. The anomalous situation was confirmed by Dante Cadiz, Tondaligan Park administrator, during the virtual session…
ONE OF ONlY TWO IN THE REGION THE Lyceum Northwestern University in Dagupan is only one of two Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in Region1 allowed by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to hold limited face-to-face classes effective the second semester of academic year 2020-2021. This was reported by the…
A 100-year-old grandma from Barangay Nagsaing in Calasiao town became the oldest Pangasinense to have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Josefa Milagros Vallo went to the town’s vaccination center, accompanied by her relatives, on May 25 to receive her first dose of the jab. She said she wants to continue to…
WHY BIKE WHEN YOU CAN RIDE – Two men from island Barangay Calmay in Dagupan City choose to take a 5-minute banca ride with their bicycles to cross over to the downtown area instead of an almost hour bike ride from their barangay to their destination in the city. (Punchphoto by…
COVID-19 CAMPAIGN GETS A BOOST FOR the first time, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan was down from May 14 to 20 compared to the statistics of the previous week with bigger number of recoveries than the tallied number of new confirmed cases. As of May 20, the…
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