(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News)

PHO warns Pangasinenses over high heat index outdoor 

THE Provincial Health Office cautioned Pangasinenses to take necessary precautions to prevent heat stroke and heat exhaustion that may lead to death as a result of the high heat index prevailing in the province today. To prevent dehydration leading to heat stroke or heat exhaustion, PHO advised people to make the habit of drinking eight or more glasses of water a day and to go to the nearest shade when the sun is at its hottest. Those taking  maintenance medicine must shy away from outdoor when the sun is at its hottest in order to avoid heat-related sickness.

Last Wednesday alone, the PAGASA weather station in Dagupan recorded a heat index of 39 degrees centigrade, one of the highest in the country.

Deeper probe on NFA’s sale of buffer stock sought 

THE Bantay Bigas, a non-government organization, said it believes that there are higher officials behind the sale of 75,000 bags of rice that comprised the country’s buffer stock other than the 139 officials of the National Food Authority (NFA) who were preventively suspended for 60 days by the Ombudsman.

Bantay Bigas Spokesperson Cathy Estavillo told IFM Dagupan that his group is in solidarity with the others in seeking deeper investigation into irregular sale of this big volume of NFA rice to the private traders. She expressed belief that the sale of NFA buffer stock to private traders in violation of the NFA charter and without any resolution from the NFA board  have been going on under the past administration, perpetrated by past officials. (Rona  Racca)

 468 graduate from Tsuper Scholar Program 

THE Tsuper Scholar Program of the Technical  Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Department of Transportation (DOTr) awarded certificates of completion to 469 drivers of public utility jeepneys in Pangasinan.

Ronald Sta. Ana, supervising TESDA specialist, said that under the program, a jeepney driver receives P12,500 for his expenses for 35 days while undergoing skills training like on bread and pastry, computer system servicing, electrical installation and maintenance, masonry, tile-settings and others. The program aims to support members of the transport sector while the implementation of the Public Transportation Modernization Program (PTMP) is still being pushed nationwide.

 Dagupan set  to be declared Justice Zone 

A two-day Development Planning Workshop in Dagupan organized by the Justice Sector Coordinating Council with Mayor Belen Fernandez as among the participants, decided that Dagupan City can be declared a Justice Zone.

The envisioned Justice Zone in Dagupan seeks to strengthen the local justice system in order to achieve equality of all despite each other’s situation in life in order to bring about safe communities. The cities that already have been declared Justice Zones are Quezon City, Cebu, Davao, Angeles, Bacolod, Naga, Calamba, Baguio, Zamboanga and Tagaytay.

 Man hangs himself after quarreling with girlfriend

 A man from Bayambang town hanged himself after having a spat with his girlfriend, an Overseas Filipino Worker, that resulted in their break-up. The victim committed the suicide in his grandfather’s house using his belt wound up around  his neck that was attached to the ceiling.

After his relatives discovered the victim’s hanging body, he was rushed to a local hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.

Ex-kapitan arrested for shooting

A former barangay captain was arrested after he was tagged as suspect in a shooting incident that transpired during a drinking spree right in his home in Alcala town last week. The suspect, Albert Biala, former barangay captain of Pindangan East, Alcala, was identified by witnesses as the one who shot one Delfin Prosejor, who is temporarily residing in Sto. Tomas town, during a drinking spree.

Investigation showed while both were drinking, along with two others, inside the house of Biala, the latter flared up, pulled out a Caliber 38 pistol and shot Prosejor point blank on the chest. The victim was rushed to the Bayambang District Hospital where he was operated on and is now under observation.

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