REGION 1 is grappling with a significant increase in dengue cases, with numbers more than doubling in the first four months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, majority of which were recorded in Pangasinan at 914, including 86 in Dagupan City. Dengue cases from January to April…
THE three-hectare sanitary landfill in Barangay Catablan, managed by the Urdaneta City government, is almost full to the brim and will soon stop accepting wastes from other localities, a city councilor said last week. Councilor Onofre Gorospe said the landfill established in 2010 during the term of former Mayor Amadeo Perez…
LINGAYEN-DAGUPAN Archbishop Socrates Villegas warmly welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV, as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church, calling his papacy a divine answer to the prayers of the faithful around the world. “The wait is over. Let us thank God for answering our prayers. We have…
KALUTAN ED DALAN 2025 EDITION – Mayor Belen Fernandez leads celebrities in the ceremonial lighting of barbecue grills to signal the opening of the celebration of the Bangus Festival 2025’s “Kalutan ed Dalan” Bangus street party on April 30. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
A brief early evening rain on April 30 did not stop thousands from trooping to the De Venecia Expressway Extension in Dagupan City to take part in the Kalutan ed Dalan and Bangusan Street Party, the penultimate events of the annual Bangus Festival. Some 1,200 connected metal grills were simultaneously lit up at 5:30…
URDANETA Mayor Julio Parayno III resumed his campaign activities for his reelection bid in the May 12 elections last week from home as he claimed that three groups of hired killers are after him. “For my own sake and for the sake of my family, I have to distance myself…
ANOTHER CASE PENDING SUBMISSION OF EVIDENCE THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Pangasinan is seeking an explanation from a candidate running for a post within the Second District following allegations of vote-buying. In an interview, Pangasinan Election Supervisor Atty. Erickson Oganiza confirmed that a show-cause order has been filed against…
SENATORIAL bets under the administration’s Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas defended the government’s P20 per kilogram rice program, rejecting claims that its rollout is timed for political gain ahead of the 2025 midterm elections on May 12. During a press conference in Dagupan City for their grand campaign rally on…
‘SALUBONG’ BY THE BEACH –Catholic devotees attend the “Abet-abet ed Olin Inbilay” (Salubong) ceremony and Easter mass held at Tondaligan beach in Dagupan City organized by the Dagupan City government, presided by Fr. Emmanuel Esliza Ferrer of the Annunciation of the Lord Parish; Fr Mario Morales of the St Gabriel the Archangel Parish and Fr Allan…
REELECTIONIST Urdaneta Mayor Julio Parayno III described the current mayoralty race in the city as a fight between him and a non-resident of Urdaneta, referring to his opponent, Maan Guico, who is from Binalonan and that even is only by affinity being the wife of Pangasinan Gov. Ramon Guico III….
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