FOR K T0 12 SENIORS LINGAYEN—Here’s the latest on the K to 12 curriculum in Department of Education (DepEd) Pangasinan 1 Division, when the senior high school begins to be implemented in June 2016. Out of the 135 high schools today, only 125 schools can offer senior high school courses….
PANGASINAN is lucky, it is not affected by a severe drought brought about by the intensified El Niño phenomenon as much as its neighbors. This was bared by Rosendo So, chairman of partylist Abono, who said during KBP Forum that farmers in Pangasinan are better off than their counterparts in other…
Pangasinan spared from drought, say
FIFTEEN families were rendered homeless in a less than an hour fire that razed 11 residential houses starting at 2:30 p.m. of May 4 along Amado Street in Barangay Tapuac in the first major fire in Dagupan City this year. Fire Officer 4 Charmy Ocampo, Dagupan City’s Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) operations officer, said no person was…
15 families displaced by blaze
THE LICE THAT KILLS WHAT makes the fish similar to human and animals when exposed to the sweltering summer heat? The fish gets attacked by lice, very much under the same conditions that affect people and animals. The only difference is, the fish can die of it. Dr. Westly Rosario,…
Fish die when attacked by lice
THE ‘Brigada Iskwela’, an annual activity of the Department of Education (DepEd) with parents, teachers and other stakeholders will be held simultaneously in all public schools in the country from May 18 to 23, a week before the opening of classes for school year 2015-2016 on the first Monday of June this year. This was announced by Ma. Linda Ventenilla,…
Schools prepare for Brigada Iskwela, May 18 to 23
SUAL—This town has began distributing 25,000 seedlings for its targeted one million trees to be planted for the next 10 years in communities and in the mountainous areas. Mayor Roberto Arcinue said Thursday in a media forum that the town has forged a partnership with San Miguel Energy Corporation (SMEC) and the…
Sual set to plant 1 million trees
TF BANTAY ILOG UPDATE THE dismantling and demolition of the remaining 11 illegal fish pens in Dagupan City will continue until June at which time the grace period extended to these shall have lapsed. A schedule for the dismantling of the fish pens was released by the City Agriculture Office…
Last 11 illegal fish pens gone by June
NEW FARMING TECHNOLOGY — The 117 farmers that completed the Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan Farmers Training Program at Pozorrubio get together before parting ways. SM Foundation’s KSK-FT taught farmers more effective ways of producing and yielding vegetables with a 12-step program that teaches farmers seed culture and propagation, irrigation and fertilizer application using…
NEW FARMING TECHNOLOGY
ANOTHER POTENTIAL BIG INVESTOR A BIG international conglomerate, Kampac Corporation of Dubai, is negotiating to build a multi-billion dollar petro-chemical complex in Sual, that includes an oil refinery, international seaport, a ship building facility and either a coal-fired or gas power plant. Sual Mayor Roberto Arcinue told newsmen in Dagupan…
Sual eyed to host multi-billion dollar petro-chemical complex
LINGAYEN—As more tourist destinations and festivals in the province are becoming more popular, the growth of the hotel industry is not coping. This was the assessment of provincial tourism officer, Malu Eduayan noting how the province has failed to cope with the growing tourism industry. She encouraged the private sector…