LINGAYEN-–Job openings for local and overseas companies will be on offer during the Provincial Employment Services Office’s (PESO) series of Special Recruitment Activities (SRAs) and Job Fairs this June. PESO Chief Alex F. Ferrer said positions for factory workers, engineers, surveyors, foremen, plumbers, masons, carpenters, production operators, domestic helpers, among…
LINGAYEN—Manufacturers of handicrafts and various food products from Pangasinan are meeting next month with representatives of the Pangasinan Brotherhood United States of America (PBUSA) and the US Department of Defense in preparation for their participation in an international expo in October. The trade fair dubbed ‘Diversity Business Exposition’ is being…
Local manufacturers gear up for US expo
BANGUS (milkfish) growers can now heave a sigh of relief. The threat of neap tide is over and tidal fluctuation is now back to normal, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Dagupan City. BFAR’s Dr. Westly Rosario said the lowest level of oxygen, which could…
Neap tide threat is over
BANGUS (milkfish) from Dagupan, known to the discerning palate as tastier than others grown or caught elsewhere, including other parts of Pangasinan, will soon be distinguishable in markets as the city government pursues tail-tagging as a branding strategy for the city’s number one product. Mayor Belen Fernandez said tail-tagging is…
Coming soon: “Dagupan bangus” tail-tagging
TEAM Energy Corporation (TEC), which operates the coal-fired power plant in in Sual town, has recently embarked in two new Safety and Health programs to achieve Zero Accident by the year 2016. Supplementing its existing OSH programs, the Kasangga ko sa Safety (KAKOSA) and Safety Mo, Ipapatrol ko will ensure…
Team Energy introduces 2 new safety programs
LINGAYEN—Livelihood assistance funds were distributed by the provincial government to 10 groups and three individuals from 10 towns last May 29. Governor Amado Espino Jr. handed the P100,000- P150,000 checks for the groups and P60,000- P100,000 for the individual-beneficiaries from the towns of Mabini, Dasol, Binmaley, Bayambang, Binalonan, Mapandan, Balungao,…
10 towns receive livelihood fund from prov’l gov’t
BOOTHS have been set up in all SM stores, including in SM Rosales, for the Donate a Book campaign, a joint project of the SM Store and SM Stationery in partnership with SM Foundation and the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Donors can either give old books or buy…
SM launches Donate a Book campaign
LINGAYEN — The provincial government recently turned over a P297, 000-subsidy to Sitio Mapita High Value Crops Growers’ Association of the Indigenous People (IP) community in Sitio Mapita, Aguilar for the implementation of an irrigation project to further boost the Farmer Entrepreneurship Program (FEP) in the village that started in…
Prov’l gov’t supports Indigenous People to boost agri-devt
CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN — Eighteen Malaysian students from the University of Malaysia Sabah Labuan International Campus (UMSLIC) plan to adopt the 5S Good Housekeeping system of the provincial government for their school after their brief visit here last May 27. “We were overwhelmed not only of the aesthetic sights of…
Malaysian students plan to adopt Pangasinan’s 5S
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS ONLINE GRADS—-Mayor Belen Fernandez (seated, 2nd from left) joins fellow graduates composed of provincial governors, city mayors and municipal mayors from different parts of the country after they received their certificates for completing the NEO (Newly Elected Officials) Online Orientation Course from Interior and Local Government Secretary…