THE barangay health workers (BHWs) and barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) in Dagupan City are in for a better deal this year. They will be paid additional P1,000 monthly allowance beginning January. This was provided for in Ordinance No. 1903-2007 approved by the city council granting additional allowance to these workers…
POZORRUBIO–A tragedy marked the first day of the year here. Two boys were killed and two others were injured when a jeepney hit them along the provincial road in barangay Dilan here on the evening of January 1. Reports reaching the Pangasinan PNP provincial office in Lingayen identified the fatalities…
IF San Fernando in La Union wants to be known as a “no smoking city” as part of its drive for cleaner environment, Dagupan will not allow itself to be far behind. To date, a Dagupan City councilor is mulling over the passage of an ordinance, similar to a law…
TWO houses went up in smoke in a one-hour fire Thursday dawn in interior Sitio Barrera in Pantal, Dagupan City. The blaze that started at 1:30 a.m. gobbled up the houses made of light materials owned by Juanito Adap and his son Joselito. Two other adjacent houses owned by Corazon…
OFFICIALS of the Dagupan City jail, including all guards on duty are in hot water after a jail guard who was supposed to escort an inmate to the hospital was shot dead by the inmate himself in barangay Babasit, Manaoag in the morning of December 29. Dead on the spot…
The provincial government will have to work doubly hard this year if it expects to recoup its gains as a result of a big decline in investments. Total investments in Pangasinan in 2007 drastically dropped by as much as P1,861,550,658.01 or about 24.40 percent, according to the report of the…
Unlicensed water refilling stations in Dagupan will soon be closed when the ordinance banning their operations is passed by the city council. The pending ordinance was put forward after the 80-member Metro Dagupan Water Refilling Station Cooperative sought the help of City Councilor Jesus Canto, chairman of the council’s Committee…
It was not only Leonor Rivera after who had an attachment to Pangasinan. Philippine National hero Dr. Jose Rizal was part-Pangasinense. This new note in the province’s history was revealed during the Rizal Day celebration at the Dagupan City Plaza when City Administrator Alvin Fernandez made public the results of…
Some 757 children of all ages were baptized as Roman Catholics in a mass baptism sponsored by Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, who stood as “ninong” and “ninang“, last December 28 that coincided with the observance of the Church’s Holy Innocents Day. The event…
MALICIOUS TEXT MESSAGES—Mayor Julier Resuello of San Carlos City, flanked by chief of police Supt. Perfecto Poblador, and Jail Chief Inspector Roque Sison as he denounces the “vicious” vilification against him spread by still unidentified persons through text messages during a news conference on Tuesday. The text messages described his…
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