ZERO TOLERANCE FOR USERS LINGAYEN–The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) will conduct random drug testing among all policemen in the province to find out if there are any more lawmen using illegal drugs. Superintendent Ferdinand de Asis, PPPO information officer, said the random testing of policemen was ordered by P/Sr….
THE Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) vowed to immediately solve the two shooting incidents recorded last August 2 even as P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano, DCPS chief, assured the city that there is nothing to be alarmed about because the incidents were isolated cases. He said the incidents happened in barangays Bonuan…
HERE’S good news for daily wage earners. The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-1 (RTWPB-1) issued Wage Order No.RB1-17 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations increasing the daily minimum wage rates of workers and employees below the Poverty Threshold particularly in the Non-Agriculture (Micro) and Agriculture (Non-Plantation) by P14.00 effective…
ANOTHER STAR IN THE MAKING? AFTER the famed Dagupan Bangus, will the city soon a have another star in “Dagupan Blue Tahong”? This prospect struck the consciousness of the city’s fisherfolk after news of mussels (colored blue) were gathered at a river in this city, and samples of which have…
SAN CARLOS FOOD POISONING LINGAYEN– The Food and Drug Administration-Center for Food Regulation and Research (CFRR) said it found molds in the sampled chewable candy, suspected as the culprit behind the food poisoning of over a hundred school children in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. According to the CFRR Alert Reporting…
LINGAYEN—The “Pacific Partnership 2015” that saw the United States (US) Navy and the Philippine Navy (PN) team up for their joint medical mission and disaster preparedness seminar sailed off last week. Last August 5-6, a team from the Provincial Health Office (PHO), Provincial Health officer, Dr. Anna De Guzman, joined…
4Ps BENEFICIARIES ASSURED A TOP official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) confirmed that of the 123,923 family beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pampamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Pangasinan, not a single one is in danger of being purged from the list. This assurance was given by DSWD…
THE Commission on Election’s campaign for biometric registration, “No Bio, No Boto,” started simultaneously last August 6 in all major shopping malls in Pangasinan. Participating in the program as satellite registration sites are all malls of CSI Group of Companies, SM City Rosales and Robinson’s Place Calasiao. Nine malls of the CSI…
LINGAYEN– The provincial government of Pangasinan is considering to own and operate its own radio station. Last week, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) discussed at length the resolution granting Governor Amado Espino Jr. the authority to negotiate with the Philippine Broadcasting Service- Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) and the National Telecommunications Commission…
THE Department of Health thru the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) — its main arm in the province — will launch tomorrow, August 10 its historic “High Impact Five” program to fully complement and support DoH regional offices to achieve Universal Health Care/Millennium Development Goals. Dr. Joseph Roland O. Mejia,…
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