WHAT’S UP SEC?—Governor Amado Espino Jr. (right) gets an update on the reported appointment of Senior Superintendent Mariano Verzosa as provincial police director from Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo (left) while on a break during the Tapatan dialogue on Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change Adaptation held on July 10 in San Fernando, La…
RULE of thumb: If there is apparent risk, just let the children stay at home. This was one advice to parents contained in the guidelines issued last Wednesday by the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) in flood-prone Dagupan. The CDRRMC said parents have the prerogative to tell…
THE Bureau of Immigration is soon adopting the biometrics system to monitor the entry and exit of foreigners who come to the Philippines as tourists or residents. “Due to the influx of tourists, it is very difficult to monitor foreign nationals who have almost the same names,” said Immigration Commissioner Ricardo…
A PHP 1,500.00 STIPEND each for 13,748 poor senior citizens in Region 1 is now being distributed through the Social Pension Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The release started in the first week of June, facilitated by DSWD personnel with assistance from the Municipal Social…
ALAMINOS CITY– This city’s comprehensive literacy program, putting its literacy rate at 94.36 percent of the population, has been listed among the finalists for the Best Local Government Unit (LGU) Implementer of the National Literacy Program in the component city category. “I believe that education is a right, not a privilege,” said…
TO strengthen the implementation of the environmental and sanitation programs in the city’s villages, the Liga Ng Mga Barangay and Mayor Benjamin S. Lim have entered into a memorandum of agreement for the release of P100,000 for the purchase of one three-wheeled -motorized garbage bin called “garong” for each barangay. The city…
AFTER successfully introducing organically grown pigs under the Profitable Innovative Growing System (PIGS) program in barangay Mangin in Dagupan City, six more barangays have been integrated in the same program. A seminar was held under the auspices of Pro Natural Technical Support and Services led by its representative Jun Cahusay, a…
THE Dagupan government, in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), has provided training to wives of fishermen who were displaced in the river clean up program of the city. The participants, 30 from Barangay Salapingao and 40 from Pugaro, were taught how to prepare bangus nuggets, bangus…
MEMBERS of the Healthy Habit Club, a group of provincial government employees, will show their skills in preparing low-cost and healthy vegetable dishes in a cooking demo at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center on July 25 as part of Pangasinan’s observance of the 38th Nutrition Month The provincial government…
FAST AND VICTORIOUS—Members of the University of Luzon running team celebrate their victory in the 36th Milo Run, Dagupan Elimination after winning several individual medals and putting delegation as the fastest team. Back to Homepage
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