IN PREPARATION FOR 2013 ELECTION A CRACKDOWN against private armed groups (PAGs) has been launched by the police in Pangasinan in preparation for the May 2013 elections. Wednesday last week, law enforcers seized from one group operating in the eastern part of the province several guns and ammunition during two…
EXPERIENCING flu-like symptoms such as fever, head and body ache, and malaise for at least three days? Go seek medical help right away as these are the early symptoms of leptospirosis, a disease commonly acquired from infested floodwater. This was the advice prescribed by said City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell…
LINGAYEN—A more detailed layout of Pangasinan will soon be accessible online through Google Maps, highlighting various points in the different cities and municipalities. The provincial government, in cooperation with the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning office (PCDSPO) and Google Incorporated, started a province-wide Google map-making session here last September 12,…
SAN CARLOS CITY—Officials of the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) based here launched a campaign among city residents to help avoid dengue infestation by eliminating pockets of stagnant water that serve as breeding places for carrier mosquitoes. PPH doctors said dengue cases usually rise from the month of June until November.
LINGAYEN–“We are living in a digital age.” This was the emphasized by Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. when the provincial government’s “Digitizing School Paper” project was launched last September 14.
CHEMICAL-FREE PESTICIDE—Making pesticides out of common plants is one of the new tricks learned by farmers in the recent Season-Long Training of Trainers of Farmer Field School on Integrated Pest Management for Lowland Vegetable Production, and Farmer Livestock School on Integrated Goat Management held in Manaoag recently. Viewing some of…
WITH a gross capacity of only five tons per day, the Seafood Processing Plant built by the Korean government for Dagupan City is not designed for commercial operation, said a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) executive. Dr. Westly Rosario, designated interim manager of the plant in addition to…
FOR more than two decades now, every year come September to December, an agamang war rages in the waters of Barangay Pugaro in Dagupan City. Acknowledged as the top producer of high-value fish like lapu-lapu and talakitok, Pugaro is also known to be the “birthing station” of Acetes, a genus…
THE Dagupan City veterinary office has been ordered by the office of the city mayor to continuously conduct rigid meat inspections in the market and monitor proper meat handling among vendors. Mayor Benjamin Lim issued the directive after 400 kilos of imported meat were seized from five vendors in Malimgas…
MALASIQUI—“Useless”. This was how Abono party-list chairman Rosendo So described the negotiations being undertaken by the government with the World Trade Organization for the extension on the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice. The government was granted by the WTO an extension on the QR on rice from 2006 to 2012,…
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