DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin Lim has appealed to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to immediately act on the proposed P14-million supplemental budget for garbage collection and disposal. Lim said the approved P4 million budget, or about P300,000 a month, of the waste management division for its maintenance and operating expenses in the…
BRAND NEW CLASSROOMS–Pinky Aquino Abellada (right), one of the sisters of President Benigno Aquino III, with 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia (center) and Pangasinan II Division Superintendent Vira Luz Raguindin (2nd from left) inspect some of the facilities in a kindergarten school building (inset) constructed through the initiative of…
MANAOAG–One of the sisters of President Benigno Aquino III turned over two school buildings to two public schools in separate towns of the province on Thursday. Pinky Aquino Abellada, who initiated the project called “Silid Pangarap”, said it is her own way of helping the administration of her brother.
AGEW NA DAGUPAN AND RIZAL DAY COINCIDING with the declared national holiday tomorrow, June 20, in honor of national hero Jose Rizal’s 150th birthday, Dagupan City will also be celebrating its 64th ‘Agew na Dagupan’.
THINK GREEN—Sangguniang Kabataan officers, Department of Education officials and Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez plant mahogany seedlings at a vacant lot in Barangay Salisay as part of the celebration of Philippine Independence Day on June 12 and in line with the nationwide implementation of the national government’s National Greening Project….
THE Dagupan City government plans to construct 600 housing units to relocate illegal settlers, especially those living in riverbanks. Mayor Benjamin Lim announced the plan last week as he appealed to the city council to help provide funds for the project.
SAN JACINTO–This town will soon be abloom with malunggay (moringa oleifera) leaves after it adopted the plant as its One Town One Product (OTOP). Rep. Gina de Venecia of the 4th District, which covers San Jacinto, has allocated P5 million from her Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) for the construction…
NIGHTLIFE in Dagupan City is envisioned to get more exciting with the opening in July of the Metro Plaza complex in front of the city hall. Mayor Benjamin Lim, speaking at the KBP Forum on Thursday, said the complex will house mostly food stalls and restaurants.
TWO vocational-technical training centers operating in the province were recently exposed as “fly-by-night” establishments by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) The two “mobile” training centers deemed operating illegally are Mobile Power, reportedly operating in Binalonan, and IAC with a still undetermined exact location. Both are not registered…
CONTRACTUAL employees hired by local government units (LGUs) in the province now receive the same Pag-IBIG fund benefits enjoyed by regular employees. Twenty-six municipalities and three cities have already began sending remittances for the corresponding contribution to the Pag-IBIG Home Development Mutual Fund-Dagupan Branch for 4,399 job contractual employees.
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