HERE’S a career tip for students from the Commission on Audit. (COA). The Philippine government needs to employ 2,000 new accountants to help audit the Filipino people’s money. This was conveyed by COA Commissioner Jose A. Fabia to the high school students and faculty of Pangasinan State University (PSU) during…
EARLY MORNING CATCH—Fishermen in Lingayen race to push their motorized banca out to the Lingayen Gulf early morning to cast their net for the day’s catch. Every minute counts for fishermen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
MANGALDAN—Despite protest rally and a letter for deferment from the market vendors, the approval of the proposed additional P40 million loan by the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) appears imminent. The majority of the SB members voted last week to adopt the committee report that supports the construction of the second phase…
BRIEFING ON BANGUS BRANDING—-Mayor Belen T. Fernandez stresses the importance of producing quality products for export to bangus stakeholders that attended the orientation on bangus branding organized by the city government together with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) – Region 1 headed by of Director Nestor D….
DAGUPAN CITY— The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is eyeing another potential moneymaker for fisherfolks. – sea cucumber. Initial results of the experiment on the sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra) culture in hatchery show that a commercial size for this high-value species is possible. Today, the sea cucumber’s population…
TO help empower persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Dagupan City, a PWD Summit was held to educate the community on PWDs’ rights established by the “Magna Carta for Persons with Disabilities.” The main discussion during the summit held in observance of the 36th National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week (NDPRW) from July…
ALAMINOS CITY—Encouraged by the increasing number of tourists to the Hundred Islands, the city council passed an ordinance last week authorizing its mayor to borrow P175-million from the Land Bank of the Philippines to fund more improvements in the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) and the redevelopment of Lucap Wharf.
TWO graduates of nursing schools in Pangasinan were among the top 10 placers in the recent May 2014 Nurses Licensure Examination (NLE). Both Alvin Clores Abulencia of Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation and Mark Melo Deogracias Vidal of the University of Pangasinan landed in No. 9 spot with their identical 84…
MRS. FARSOC— Eleanor Quinto Sober, this year’s Mrs. Filipino-American Retirees of Southern California (FARSOC), is joined by crowning guests 2nd District of Pangasinan Rep. and Mrs. Leopoldo Bataoil, and husband Jimmie Sober during lavish ceremonies held at the San Diego Marriot Marquis & Marina in San Diego, California. Eleanor is the…
COJUANGCO UPDATES QUEZON CITY—Nine mayors of the first district of Pangasinan and their two board members plus their congressman declared Friday their all-out support for the gubernatorial bid of former fifth district Rep. Mark Cojuangco in 2016 at the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) headquarters here . Alaminos City Mayor Arthur Celeste, who…
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