SIBUYAS FESTIVAL—A candidate vying for the Sibuyas Festival Queen waves to the crowd from one of the floats bedecked with fresh onions and flowers during the 1st Sibuyas parade in Bayambang town. The parade helped cheer up the downhearted Bayambang farmers that were affected by the weeklong low prices offered…
THE Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) will implement Oplan SumVac to ensure the safety of all vacationers going to the beaches and rivers to swim this summer vacation, especially during the Holy Week. “With Oplan SumVac in place we expect zero drowning in all our coastal areas and the river…
FOR LEAGUE OF CITIES DAGUPAN City will facilitate the coordination and support for the implementation of the Senior High School (SHS) program for the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP). The designation of Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez as focal person for the implementation of the SHS program was…
LPG TERMINAL’S SAFETY QUESTIONED A PRESS release issued by a party-list congressman that reported alleged damages suffered by a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal in San Fabian due to earthquake stunned the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) based in Pangasinan. Rep. Arnel…
Some 200 officers, frontliners and responders from LGUs, PNP, Bureau of Fire Protection and Local DRRMCs and the DILG sign the pledge of commitment as an affirmation of their support to OPLAN LISTO during the Provincial Convergence Action Planning last March 23 at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center in…
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS LINGAYEN – Disaster councils in every local government unit can begin to implement their emergency plans based on typhoon tracks and not rely solely on storm signals. The Department of Interior and Local Government organized last week a provincial convergence action-planning workshop that aimed to scale up the preparations of…
LINGAYEN–As host of two power plants, the Team Energy and the San Roque Multi-purpose dam there is no reason why Pangasinan should suffer brownouts this summer even as some parts of Luzon will have intermittent power loss as projected. This was the contention of Alex Rigonan, former vice mayor of…
THE first church history book ever written since Christianity came to Pangasinan in 1587 titled “Pananisia: Heritage and Legacy” was launched on March 25 at the Sampaguita Gardens in Quezon City. In his message, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, book author said, “Pananisia is faith. It is faith that is our…
CAPITOL NEWS BOARD Member Amado “Pogi” I. Espino, III, Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial President (upper photo), assures support of 1,333 barangay captains in the province to women groups in all their undertakings as he speaks to over a thousand women (lower photo) representing the Kalipunan ng Liping Pilipina Nasyonal…
LINGAYEN– Without the women, there would be no men. This premise was made by Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr., representing Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr., during the opening program of the first Provincial Women’s Congress held last week as part of the Women’s Month Celebration in the province, to…
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