EVEN after the city government has opened the area in front of the former MC Adore Hotel to ambulant vendors displaced by the ongoing anti-hawking operations, the place is not sufficient to accommodate them all for their sheer number. Councilor Alex de Venecia, chairman of the city council’s committee on…
THE president of the Dagupan-based North Asia Call Center Academy (NACCA) has called on local government officials to help their constituents in landing a white collar job with a salary equal to the pay of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) without the sacrifice of separation from family via scholarships. NACCA president…
LEADERSHIP COURSE — The officers of all the student councils of the Mother Goose Schools in Dagupan, San Carlos, Urdaneta and Bayambang get together for the last time after completing the “Introduction to Leadership Course” organized by the Supreme Student Government of Mother Goose Special School System, Inc. (Dagupan Branch),…
THE University of Luzon College of Criminology has proven once more it deserves its Level III accreditation status when it scored a high 52% in the Board Examination for Professional Criminologists given last Oct. 24 to 26. Dr. Esther Vedaña, college dean, said the result was the highest in recent…
CHILDRENS DRAW AND TELL COMPETITION- The young winners in the Draw & Tell Eliminations, a project of the Kiwanis Club of Bangus Pandaragupan in cooperation with the Department of Social Welfare and Development Cluster 3 Day Care workers and Lucao barangay officials, join the sponsors after the event. The eliminations…
PHILHEALTH CARDS—Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. presents an envelope containing Philippine Health Insurance Corporation cards to Barangay Chairman and Liga ng mga Barangay president Roland Villegas for distribution to his constituents in barangay Anonang, San Fabian. Also in photo are San Fabian Mayor Mojamito Libunao (second from left) and Vice…
THE fourth congressional district now has the most number of PhilHealth card holders in the country with 23,039 beneficiaries, mostly belonging to indigent families, Ernesto Beltran, PhilHealth regional manager, told The PUNCH. Every card holder, including up to six other family members, are entitled to free hospitalization benefits from government…
No accountability breeds corruption Last week, the global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International reported that the perceived levels of corruption in the Philippines in 2005 has worsened, from its 117 ranking the previous year to a low 121, just as bad as Gambia, Guyana, Swaliland, Rwanda, etc. (who, by the way,…
The latest on Dagupan City’s “onor-onors” By Ermin Garcia Jr. UP FOR RENEWAL? Here’s a curious initiative of Dagupan’s chief onor-onor Teofilo Guadiz III. After 6 years in the city council, Mr. Guadiz comes forward to tell us that he just noticed the series of encroachments along the Pantal River….
‘Micro-loan’ banks for needy Pangasinenses By Gerry Garcia WE rewrite here for you readers who might have missed reading it, a recent Jun Velasco story culled from last Tuesday’s issue of the Manila Bulletin detailing two pieces of good news from our Speaker Joe from Binloc this city. One story…
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