DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING —The Philippine flag is lowered to half-mast shortly after the flag-raising ceremony in front of the provincial capitol building in Lingayen last Monday, November 4, in compliance with Proclamation Number 728 declaring November 4,2024 as a day of national mourning for the victims of severe tropical storm Kristine. (Punchphoto…
DAGUPAN ON FULL ALERT PANGASINAN was still under storm signal #1 as of Friday morning even as Typhoon Marce weakened, but the latest natural hazard to hit the country did not bring heavy rain and gusty winds to the province. Commercial hub Dagupan City, which is still under a state…
SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET, 8 RESOLUTIONS PASSED THE new majority in the Dagupan City Sangguniang Panlungsod immediately got down to business and passed in less than six hours the long-delayed Supplemental Budget No. 2 of 2023 amounting to P557 million, and eight vital resolutions concerning different programs and projects. Councilor and new Majority…
WITH 3 COUNCILORS SUSPENDED “IT was what I earlier considered as another Divine Providence or an act of God favoring us.” This was the terse reaction of Mayor Belen Fernandez to the preventive suspension of the three councilors of the majority bloc for 60 days by the Office of the…
MANAOAG Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario was elected new president of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP)-Pangasinan Chapter, replacing Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil who stepped down from the post to focus on his congressional campaign in next year’s elections. Governor Ramon “Mon-mon” Guico III presided over the transition ceremony…
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,…
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