AFTER MC ADORE, BSL TRIES ANOTHER ANOTHER attempt by Mayor Benjamin Lim to revive his proposed privatization of the Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan was shot down by Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC). Rosario, appointed by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic…
NATIONAL AGRI AWARD FOR RIVER PROJECT—Provincial Agriculturist Dalisay A. Moya (center) receives the plaque and cheque for P100,000 awarded to the province by Universal Harvester, Inc. represented by Executive Vice President Milagros O. How (left) and The Outstanding Farmers in the Philippines (TOFARM) Awards Chairman Rommel M. Cunanan (right) for…
NATIONAL AGRI AWARD FOR RIVER PROJECT
LINGAYEN–Pangasinan added another feather to its cap by bagging the prestigious TOFARM 2012 Award for its “Ilog Ko, Bilayen Tan Aro Ko” program. TOFARM, or the Search and Award for the Ten Outstanding Farmers of the Philippines, is given out by the Junior Chamber Philippines, Inc. (JCP) and Universal Harvester…
River clean-up program wins national award
TRICYCLE drivers and operators who went to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) regular session last Monday went home in frustration after the council failed to convene due to lack of quorum. Only the presiding officer, Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, and Councilor Jeslito Seen were present and answered the roll call conducted…
Tricycle operators decry absence of councilors
TSUNAMI’S POTENTIAL FOR CORRUPTION—This is the present state of the vaunted Tsunani Hill in Pugaro Island that the Lim administration is making the city government spend P10-M on. Finally aware of the plan, residents are wondering why they will be made to run from their homes (see background) towards the…
TSUNAMI’S POTENTIAL FOR CORRUPTION
THE DAGUPAN City government is set to transfer some 300 pupils from a school building in Poblacion Oeste in Dagupan City to a three-storey school building inside the Engineering Compound, expected to be completed first week of February this year. The new school building situated inside the envisioned integrated school…
City set to transfer pupils to new school building
ALAMINOS CITY—She sent out an SOS on Facebook (FB) and people heard it. Lalane Fontanilla Balcorta, a 32-year old native of this city working as a domestic helper in Amman, Jordan, put a message last January 21 in the FB account “Taga Alaminos Pangasinan Ka Kung…” calling for help and…
OFW in distress saved through Facebook
WANTED: Postman for Binmaley Even in this internet age, snail-mail and the postman have yet to become obsolete. And the government’s Postal Office in this town is badly in need of a postman to deliver mail and packages to households after two of its postmen retired in October last year….
No mail, packages delivery in Binmaley
FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS A “Unity Walk” and prayer rally will be held at the City Plaza in Dagupan City on February 8 to promote the Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) 2013 campaign of the Philippines National Police. Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, city police chief, said they are expecting the participation of…
Police initiates “Unity Walk”
EVEN as the legality of the MC Adore sale has yet to be decided with finality by the court, the administration of Mayor Benjamin Lim is already assuring vendors in the area of a relocation site for their businesses. City Administrator Vlad Mata announced that on or before February 7,…