LAOAC DAIRY FARM LINGAYEN–Three former employees of a dairy farm located in Barangay Maraboc in Laoac have come forward to complain they were not fully paid salaries due them and eventually paid no salaries covering various periods since they were employed in 2013. The workers, who were interviewed by Balitang…
WHILE THE RAINS FALL — While many local governments brace themselves for calamitous effects of the rainy season owing to climate change, farmers take to their rice fields to take advantage of the rainfall to plant rice. July and August are the seasonal planting period for rice farmers. (Punchphoto by…
LINGAYEN—When regular typhoon forecast said the Ilocos region was in the path of Typhoon Egay, the provincial government quickly went on red alert, ready to respond to emergencies. Fortunately, Pangasinan was spared from the Egay’s wrath, but La Union province was not as lucky. ==================================================== A 16-year old student drowned…
THE last and final stage of the widening of the Manila North Road (MNR) from Rosales to Sison in Pangasinan cannot proceed because more than 700 trees remain standing along the highway. According to Pangasinan Third Highway Engineer Emmanuel Riboroso whose office is based in Tumana, Rosales told newsmen that…
BLACK SAND CONFISCATION LINGAYEN–Inconsistent! This was how Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued described the decision of the regional office of the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB) that ordered the confiscation of some 9,588 cubic meters of magnetite sand in Lingayen after affirming earlier that…”there was no mining activity in the…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS MAYOR BELEN FERNANDEZ HOLDS MEETING with her department heads shortly after arriving from the United States upon the invitation of members of the Greater Dagupan Association of California and other groups (CIO) Back to Homepage
BANI—Rachel Grant, a Filipina-British actress who starred as “Peaceful Fountains of Desire” intelligence agent in the James Bond movie, “Die Another Day” and in many more movies, has been busy raising funds for a typhoon-shelter and school in a community here. Grant said in an interview through Facebook, the project…
LINGAYEN– The Bago Tribe in Sitio Mapita, Barangay Laoag in Aguilar town has been rocked by a leadership crisis since a multi-million peso company signified its intention to put up a bamboo plantation over a 10,600 hectares of a public land near its community. The conflict became evident after the…
AGUILAR—Residents of Barangay Bayaoas in this town filed a formal complaint, demanded the termination of the ongoing quarry operations in their village. The Concerned citizens of Barangay Bayaoas led by ex-Barangay Captain Arnulfo Repancol, ex-Brgy. Kagawad Alex Dela Cruz, and incumbent Brgy. Kgwd. Edwin Biag, with nine others, condemned the…
URBIZTONDO—Units of a joint housing project by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the municipal government of Urbiztondo will soon be constructed and distributed to some 200 resident-families of the town. Urbiztondo Mayor Martin Raul Sison said the housing units will mitigate the town’s problems with informal…
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