The many benefits from Brown Rice By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico IT’S ABOUT TIME Filipinos should be eating brown rice instead of the well polished white rice. Brown rice offers lots of benefits to the human body, as well as to the economy. Dr. Marissa V. Romero, food chemist of…
Traveling away from home By: Divina Gracia Colegio de Dagupan I have always been captivated, somehow obsessed, by the idea of seeing what the world is like outside Pangasinan. Images I have seen – in pictures, television and in my imagination – seem to be breathtaking. And I know that…
ILLEGAL SETTLERS CHARGED—Dagupan City Engineer Virginia Rosario (right) takes her oath before Assistant City Prosecutor Olivia Biala-Nudo upon filing the Dagupan City government’s criminal complaint against Regional Trial Court Judge Robert Rudio, Calasiao Mayor Roy Macanlalay, businessman Mario Sandoval and Atty. Juan Siapno Jr. for squatting at the Tondaligan beach…
THE “BIGGIES” GET THEIR DUE FOR SQUATTING PROVING that it is serious in dealing with the squatting issue at the Tondaligan Park and other public lands in the shoreline of Bonuan, the Dagupan City government has filed charges against prominent people illegally occupying land in the area. Named respondents in…
CALASIAO–Beware: Water in Pangasinan is not safe. The Ilocos regional director of the Department of Health (DOH) has revealed that water all across the province is contaminated with e-coli. “There is no safe area actually, even your shoreline is positive of e-coli fecal contamination based on laboratory results,” said Dr….
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, a son of Pangasinan, has promised to help check the unabated pollution of the Dagupan shoreline originating from Dagupan District Jail. Duque said he will allocate a budget from his fund for the construction of a bigger septic tank to finally stop the overcrowded jail…
LINGAYEN–Is there a recession? Perhaps so but the picture at the provincial employment services tells a different story. Unemployment rate in Pangasinan went down by at least 2.4 percent during the last quarter of 2008. Alex Ferrer, Provincial Employment Services Officer (PESO), said the improved employment rate of 9.3 percent…
THE ebola reston virus (ERV) scare in Pangasinan is finally over. Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap announced in Dagupan City on Wednesday that he had ordered the lifting of the quarantine on a pig farm in Manaoag previously tagged as susceptible to ERV. The quarantine was imposed in October last year…
MALASIQUI–No politics here. Socialite Rosemarie “Baby” Arenas, mother of 3rd District Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas who is a close ally of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, made this clear when she hosted lunch for former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada and his entourage of opposition leaders last Wednesday in her farmhouse here.
TWO graduates of the Lyceum-Northwestern University made it to the prestigious Top 10 of the November 2008 Nursing Licensure Examinations. LNU president Dr. Gonzalo T. Duque said the the LNU graduates are Miljoyce Daligdig Cabatbat and Marissa Raposas Ferrer, who both had ratings of 86.40%. LNU is the only university…
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