LINGAYEN–“I will do my part.” This was the response of Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr., head of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG), to the appeal of Gov. Amado Espino Jr. to help curb the smuggling of agricultural products into the province. Espino made the appeal when Villar attended the capital town’s…
WITH its annual debt service reaching P60 million a year, Dagupan will seek to restructure its more than P300 million loan with the Land Bank of the Philippines this year. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said a restructuring will enable the city to pay its obligations without compromising its services to…
The Dagupan City council approved in its special session on Monday a P427.5 million budget for Dagupan in 2008. The approved budget is P52 million higher than the P375 million budget last year. Stressing that the budget is realizable, Councilor Danilo Torio, chair of the committee on finance and appropriations,…
TO the relief of city workers, the owners of the remaining old and unsightly picnic sheds at Tondaligan Park in Bonuan Gueset offered no resistance when the deadline for their demolition lapsed. Councilmen Eddie de Vera and Roger Ceralde said owners of the sheds voluntarily tore down their sheds and…
VILLASIS–Talong (eggplant), the main produce of this town known as the Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan, takes center stage on January 18, the annual fiesta celebration highlighted by the Talong Festival. Mayor Nonato Abrenica said the people in their town will once again take the streets for the street dancing, cookfest,…
LINGAYEN—Provincial officials have thrown their support behind priests and pastors in their protest against a national policy requiring them to undergo a paid orientation seminar on marriage laws. The provincial board of Pangasinan passed a resolution last week urging the National Statistics Office (NSO) to withdraw its memorandum circular, issued…
LINGAYEN–Gawad Kalinga (GK) and the provincial government will provide more than a thousand new houses for the province’s poor through“sweat equity” of the beneficiaries. Engr. Alvin Bigay, provincial housing and homesite regulation officer, told The PUNCH that about 1,048 housing units will be jointly built at a 10-hectare lot within…
STO. TOMAS–”Walang sunog na mais, lahat masarap kainin (No charred corn, all good for eating).” Mayor Vivien Villar proudly told The PUNCH after the town completed its fourth dry-run on January 4 for its bid for the longest barbeque in the Guinness Book of World Records using its glutinous white…
FINALLY, Dagupan will soon build and operate its own modern slaughterhouse that could become the model in the province. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez announced this after the courtesy call made by the city council on Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. last January 7. She said the establishment of the new slaughterhouse…
A two-day job fair is slated in Dagupan City on January 16-17 to give unemployed and underemployed Dagupeños a chance to find work overseas. Those who will qualify will be sent for jobs in Canada, United States, Singapore, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Qatar and Dubai. Set at the Dagupan…
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