ONLY 201 persons with disability (PWD) in Pangasinan enlisted during the national special registration day for the sector nationwide last Aug. 11, a low turnout given the estimated 1.4 million total number of voters in the province. A special registration for PWDs was also held Thursday in Umingan because none…
AFTER pork smuggling, farmers have again knocked on the doors of Congress over rice. The Abono partylist, representing the agriculture sector, is asking the House of Representatives and the Senate to conduct an inquiry on the negotiators responsible for the negotiations on the extension of the quantitative restrictions (QR) on…
Farmers ask Congress to probe rice imports
SOFT drinks producer Coca-cola Philippines will soon have its 100th Little Red Schoolhouse, a project launched in 1997. In partnership with the Department of Education and the Philippine Business for Social Progress, Coca-cola has so far built 93 classrooms around rural areas of the Philippines, including parts of Pangasinan, with…
Coca-cola nears 100th Little Red Schoolhouse target
DAGUPAN will soon be using a new software that will improve the city’s billing and tax collection. The new system was introduced during a two-day workshop titled “Pilot Field Training on Business Tax Database Buildup and Estimation of Presumptive Income-Based City Business Taxes” held last week at the Malimgas Market’s…
Dagupan adopts new system for tax collection
PAPAL CHAPLAINS—Archbishop Socrates B Villegas and Auxiliary Bishop Renato Mayugba join Papal Chaplains Manuel S. Bravo, Jr. and Oliver E. Mendoza after their investiture at the St. John Cathedral in Dagupan City. Back to Homepage
PAPAL CHAPLAINS
THE Pangasinan Provincial Chorale (PPC) has been chosen as one of the eight finalists in the countrywide Philippine Civil Service Anniversary (PCSA) Government Chorale Competition to be held on September 17 at the University of the Philippines Theatre in Quezon City. The group sent its audition piece to the PCSA…
P’sinan Prov’l Chorale, finalist in gov’t competition
CSI The City Mall and Procter and Gamble launched the “Thank You Mom” campaign with various promos and discounts for mothers from Aug. 24 to 26 at the CSI Stadia Hall 1 and 2 in Dagupan City. Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, also the president and chief executive officer of…
“Thank You, Mom!” from CSI, P&G
THE Philippine Dental Association, with Colgate Palmolive Philippines, Inc., held its annual event dubbed “Dental Practice Risk Management Regional Conference Year III” last August 15 at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. Dr. Ray Soriano, a dentist for 23 years, said he always looks forward to such events because he learns…
PDA hold dentists’ region 1 confab
RAISING TEAM MANGALDAN–2003 Tour Pilipinas champion Arnel Quirimit of Team Mangaldan crosses the finish all by his lonesome to win the Toledo City-Argao fourth stage of the five-day 2012 Tour of Cebu bikefest held August 8-12. Quirimit’s victory lifted Team Mangaldan to second position from third, dislodging Butuan City’s Cycleline…
RAISING TEAM MANGALDAN
TOUR OF CEBU RACING against all odds, the Team Mangaldan of Mayor Herminio Romero survived the grueling five-day Tour of Cebu bikathon and finished behind champion National Team, pocketing the P50,000 second prize and the Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia trophy. The province’s well-known five-man original quad of Mangaldan-based Pitaki Boyz, coached…