DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez is contemplating to declare environmental emergency in Dagupan, noting the very serious and concerning condition of the city’s rivers caused by the 1,460 oversized fish pens. The agriculture office reported that 1,200 of these are operating beyond their carrying capacities, largely overstocked and where some…
THE Department of Health issued an alert to Pangasinan residents after 90 cases of human hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) were been recorded in Pangasinan. Burgos already has 25 active HFMD cases after four confirmed cases were initially recorded that prompted the local Rural Health Unit (RHU) to launch…
A temporary bailey bridge will be constructed beside the Carlos P. Romulo Bridge (whose Span 12 totally collapsed last October 20) but will be for light vehicles only. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 1 said most of steel platforms, transoms and bailey panels from Ilocos Sur were…
AMID WAWA BRIDGE COLLAPSE THE Urbiztondo local government is strictly implementing a five-ton weight limit on its Imelda Bridge following an assessment after the collapse of the approach of the Carlos P. Romulo Bridge in Barangay Wawa, Bayambang, on Thursday, October 20, that injured four persons. Urbiztondo Mayor Modesto Operania…
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), aided by Bayambang local government, extracted the two dump trucks that fell with the span of the Carlos P. Romulo Bridge in Bayambang that collapsed as they were crossing it. Bayambang Mayor Niña Quiambao said removal of the two trucks that fell was the first…
AVERAGE cases of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan have increased minimally, the new average for the period October 19 to 25 was up to 20 cases, from previous seven-day daily average of 18 logged from October 12 to 18. The data was released on October 25 by the Provincial Health Office…
FOR HOUSING PROGRAMS – Gov. Ramon Guico III stresses a point to Hanica Rachael Arshia Ong, assistant secretary of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development after the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement for the strengthening of partnership and linkages in the implementation of housing programs and projects in the…
TWO new offices created by the administration of Gov. Ramon Guico III were finally funded when the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) passed Supplemental Budget No. 5 that appropriated P102,203,667 during its regular session on Monday (October 17). The supplemental budget will fund the operations of various offices, including the newly created Provincial…
NO FUNDS FOR POLICE, SCHOLARS, SCHOOLS THE special session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) called by Mayor Belen Fernandez Friday afternoon to discuss and approve the Supplemental Budget and its Supplemental Annual Investment Plan which she certified as urgent was boycotted by the seven-man majority in that chamber. Not even…
A VIOLATION OF NATIONAL HERITAGE LAWS MORE issues hound the construction of the three-storey One-Stop Shop building in front of the old Dagupan City hall. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) maintains that the location of the new building, blocking the historical old city hall built in 1925…
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