LINGAYEN–The governor will not be seen and heard in campuses during graduation rites, not this year anyway. Gov. Amado Espino Jr. has declined invitations to be the guest speaker during graduation ceremonies following the order of Education Secretary Jesli Lapus banning politicians from appearing in these school-end events.
STO. TOMAS–President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the release of P2-billion for the repair, rehabilitation and restoration of neglected irrigation systems in the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle (NLAQ) during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday here. The President’s instruction was in response to the presentation of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, an NLAQ…
STO. TOMAS–Biskeg Pangasinan, the only home-grown political party in the province accredited by the Commission on Elections, is set to reorganize next month in preparation for the 2010 local elections. Undersecretary Antonio Villar, Jr., Biskeg founder and currently chief of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG), said the party intends to…
FLOOD-prone Arellano Street, particularly the stretch from A.B. Fernandez Avenue to the front of Nepo Mall, will undergo upgrading and half the road will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning March 29. Private vehicles traveling west are being encouraged to take a detour towards the Jose R. de Venecia Expressway…
THERE is no such thing as a BIR Press Corps. This was revealed by Joseph Catapia, Revenue District 4 Officer, in a talk during the Kapehan sa Lenox hosted by the Pangasinan Press and Radio Club on Wednesday. He clarified that his agency had nothing to do with the so-called…
LINGAYEN–Members of the provincial board has invited officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for a briefing on the mechanics of the poll automation for 2010 elections. Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer, who is from Binmaley, the agency’s regional director and provincial directors are expected to be at the Question Hour on…
ASINGAN—Clean up or pay up. This is the directive recently handed out to drivers of horse-driven calesas and other forms of transport pulled by animals. The municipal council recently approved the ordinance penalizing the calesa drivers if they fail to pick up wastes of their animals on the town’s streets.
STO. TOMAS–The provincial government said it is ready to comply with President Gloria Arroyo’s directive to help create additional jobs by setting aside 1.5 percent of their Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) fund for the hiring of new employees. Governor Amado Espino Jr. said the provincial government would readily…
Local entrepreneurs in Pangasinan and neighboring provinces trooped to Sison town to participate in the Farmers Agricultural Exposition 2009 that opened March 24. The week-long event is a partnership between ABONO Partylist chaired by Engr. Rosendo So and Governor Amado Espino Jr. and the Provincial Government of Pangasinan.
Winners of this year’s Aro Garden Program (AGP), a competition on backyard-farming, were given their awards on March 15. Thirty-one residents of different barangays in Calasiao participated this year and the major prizes were awarded to Amador Trinanes (1st prize, P1,000), Buenafe Indong (2nd prize, P800), and Gilda Mapalo (3rd…
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