HELP FOR FISHERFOLK—Senator Alan Peter Cayetano encourages fishermen and fish vendors at the Magsaysay fish market in Dagupan City to organize and establish their own micro-financing program that will allow them to pay lower interest rates for short term loans for their livelihood. Cayetano was in Dagupan to fulfill a…
STOP “5-6” FOR SURVIVAL SENATOR Alan Cayetano urges market vendors in Dagupan to organize and adopt micro-financing project as an alternative to the usurious “5-6” practice of loan sharks in public markets. Cayetano, the senate majority floor leader, was in Dagupan on December 15 to fulfill his pledge to assist…
EMPLOYEES of the city government, particularly the regular workers, rejoiced when the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed Supplemental Budget No. 4 last week, allotting P38.9 million for various expenditures of the city government up to the end of the year. The approval of the measure was made during a special session…
MS. DAGUPAN 2013—Eighteen-year old Beatrix Corrine Boquiren (center) from Barangay Bonuan Boquig is this year’s Ms. Dagupan with Shylie Jenerish Cayabyab (left) of Bonuan Gueset as 2nd runner-up and Tristan Kyle Torio from Mayombo as 1st runner-up. The coronation night is on December 26, one of the highlights of the…
A REJOINDER by the city government to the letter of the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) denying the request of Mayor Belen Fernandez for the transfer of an electric meter owned by the city located at the former MC Adore Hotel will have to wait till after new year’s day. Fernandez confirmed that…
LINGAYEN—Senior Superintendent Marlou Chan, after a year of controversial assignment as chief of the provincial police, has stepped out of his Pangasinan post effective December 17. After Chan received his new designation as chief regional directorial staff during a conference at the regional office Tuesday afternoon, he sent a text…
MESSAGE By Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas: Light has pierced the deep darkness! Mercy has conquered sin! Hope has burst the bubble of depression and we are new again! The sign of hope is a young mother carrying a lovely Child, The light of the splendour of God is all…
CORRECTION, PLEASE GOVERNOR Amado Espino Jr. can now heave a sigh of relief over the issue on his alleged failure to submit his statement of contributions and expenses (SOCE) for the May 2013 polls. Lawyer Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor of Pangasinan, said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) central office…
HELPING REBUILD DULAG—Workers of Pangasinan’s Provincial Engineer’s Office help rebuild the classrooms of Dulag Elementary School in Leyte, one of the activities of the provincial government’s “Operation Tulong Yolanda”. A team of 102 Pangasinenses, including 5th District Board Member Clemente Arboleda Jr., were in Leyte for a week to provide…
URBIZTONDO—Second District Board Member Raul Sison has denied any involvement in the “imbroglio” that beleaguered Urbiztondo Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. is currently in contrary to the latter’s allegations. “Stop accusing me and instead look for a good lawyer to defend you,” were Sison’s terse words to Balolong whose house and…
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