IF the plans of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Dagupan City Division and the Dagupan City government are approved by DepEd, future students of public and private schools in the city will be given the opportunity to learn the history and culture of Dagupan. The proposal of DepEd Dagupan City…
FROM THE FISHBOWL— A participant in Binmaley’s Sigay Festival shows the fresh catch being grilled for her visitors to sample. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FROM THE FISHBOWL
ACT OF ECONOMIC SABOTAGE LINGAYEN—The farmers in the country stand to benefit greatly once the House bill declaring large-scale agricultural smuggling as economic sabotage becomes law. This was the reaction of Engr. Rosendo So of the Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) and founding chair of Abono partylist to the latest…
SINAG hails expected passage of law vs smuggling
THERE is still no confirmation of some poultry farms in Pangasinan being affected by the Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV), officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region 1 said. Dr. Constancia Diaz, chief of DA’s Regional Animal Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory, said during the KBP Forum Thursday here that the only confirmed…
No Newcastle Disease Virus case in Pangasinan
LINGAYEN— The local government of Sta. Barbara received a total of P5.767 million for its bottom-up-budgeting (BUB) projects from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Agriculture (DA). However, according to DTI Region 1 director Florante Leal, the town’s BUB projects will be implemented by the…
Sta. Barbara gets P5.76 M BUB fund
NEWCASTLE VIRUS LINGAYEN –Poultry owners in the province were asked to adopt biosecurity in their farms to prevent their fowls from getting infected with Newcastle disease virus that rages in many poultry houses all over Luzon. The call was made by Rosendo So, chair of the partylist Abono and head…
Poultry owners urged: Adopt biosecurity
LAOAC–The protest over the idle dairy farm here heated up anew when some 50 farmers staged a protest rally at the abandoned complex in Barangay Maraboc Wednesday afternoon. The protesters, led by Pluto Cabalteja, condemned the mismanagement of the dairy farm that was built in 2004 by government but later stopped operation and laid off its…
Farmers protest shutdown of Laoac dairy facility
LINGAYEN – The Philippine National Police (PNP) Regional Office 1 cited 13 police officers assigned to the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office for exemplary performance in the government’s anti-illegal drugs campaign. P/Chief Supt. Ericson Velasquez, acting regional director of PNP-Region 1, presented the Medalya ng Papuri to P/Superintendents Benjamin Ariola and…
PNP honors 13 outstanding policemen
POZORRUBIO—Saddened by four deaths of young victims due to road accidents here in January, the police and the pastors and ministers of Pozorrubio Evangelical Ministers Movement led some 120 residents in a “prayer walk” on February 4. P/Chief Inspector Ryan Manongdo, town police chief, cited the four deaths and two…
Prayer Walk held for road safety in Pozorrubio
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN CITY – The Local Development Council (LDC), in a meeting on February 1, has endorsed various programs and projects of Dagupan programmed to be implemented this year to benefit most of the city’s 31 villages. Mayor Belen T. Fernandez said these programs and projects will be funded by the Local Government Unit’s share from the Excise Tax amounting P1.5 million…