SAN FABIAN–Unidentified persons set off an improvised explosive device (IED) at the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) detachment in Barangay Nibaliw Narvarte here before it could be completed. The incident happened at about 1:00 a.m. of June 22, just about a week after the property owner, Rafael de Vera, and Nibaliw Narvarte Barangay…
LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) is set to conduct a public hearing on a draft ordinance seeking to ban plastic bags and spitting inside the Provincial Capitol Complex. The proposed ordinance was suggested by Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. to bring about a plastic-free and more hygienic environment in the entire provincial capitol compound.
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan is now offering kidney transplant service, but initially in partnership with the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) where the operation will be performed. Dr. Joseph Mejia, chief of R1MC, announced that a number of R1MC patients have been given new kidneys through collaboration…
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Field Office has identified 150 qualified scholars under the Students Grants-In-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGPPA) in Region 1. Iryn de Los Reyes of the DSWD said SGPPA is a program, in partnership with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and Department of Labor and…
TROUBLEMAKERS NO MORE ALCALA—Out-of-school youths who used to cause nothing but trouble in Barangay Macayo here have been turned into productive workers through a livelihood-training program initiated by the local government. Barangay Kagawad Mario Jesus Gambol said more than 50 of his barangaymates who used to be idle and just…
A POWER interruption has been scheduled on June 27, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., affecting the towns of Binmaley, Mangatarem and Urbiztondo. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is scheduled to undertake the commissioning of a 7.5MVA transformer of CENPELCO Binmaley Substation and clearing of vegetations along lines…
FOR RELIEF OPERATIONS LINGAYEN—Local government units (LGUs) can now buy on credit rice for relief operations and rehabilitation from the National Food Authority-Western Pangasinan branch under the agency’s Rice Loan program. NFA Provincial Manager Beverlyn Peralta said under the program, LGUs will have to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA)…
THE House Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development, in coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), will conduct a public hearing on June 27 at the Emerald Hall of the Stadia in Dagupan City to seek input from Pangasinan’s entrepreneurs on a proposed bill. An amendatory bill…
AS payouts to some depositors of closed Export & Industry Bank (EIB) is underway, the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) has engaged the services of Alba Romeo & Co. as financial auditor to determine the financial condition of the bank. The payout operations for EIB depositors with account balances of…
THE Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB), which has two branches in Pangasinan and three ATM sites, has reported it is in the pink of financial health with an audited net income of P519.07 million in 2011, maintaining the same level as the net income of P519.59 million the previous year. In his…
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