FOR ARRESTED CHILDREN TO support the implementation of R.A. 9344 or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006, the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Committee (RJJWC) will construct more ‘Bahay Pag-asa’ (BP) in the region. A BP is a 24-hour child-caring institution…
DAGUPAN CITY—A 28 year-old employee of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Tarlac City drowned in Bonuan Tondaligan beach on May 21. Based on the investigation of the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS), the victim, Antonio Ballalez Jr. from Lacayang Paniqui, Tarlac, was with his relatives. Ballalez was seen beyond…
LTO employee drowns in Tondaligan Beach
ROSALES–The Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) hailed the signing into law of Republic Act 10845 (An Act declaring smuggling of agricultural commodities as economic sabotage). Rosendo So, SINAG chairman, said the agriculture industry has long lobbied for the passage of RA10845 because it serves as an effective deterrent to smuggling of agricultural…
SINAG hails passage of anti-smuggling law
THE Dagupan City Hall employees were granted mid-year bonus equivalent to one month salary on May 27 by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez pursuant to Executive Order No. 201, series of 2016 entitled “Modifying the Salary Schedule for Civilian Government Personnel and Authorizing the Grant of Additional Benefits for Both Civilian and…
City Hall employees get mid-year bonus
ANOTHER JESUS’ DISCIPLE ORDAINED — Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas blesses Most. Rev. Enrique V. Macaraeg during the latter’s Episcopal Ordination as Bishop of Tarlac Dioceses held at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Dagupan City last May 24. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ANOTHER JESUS’ DISCIPLE ORDAINED
BISHOP-elect Enrique De Vera Macaraeg was formally installed as the new Bishop of Tarlac in an Episcopal Ordination rites at the St. John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral here on Tuesday, attended by 40 archbishops and bishops and some 200 priests from all over the country. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, also president of the…
Rev. Macaraeg is new bishop of Tarlac
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN City’s Bantay Ilog Task Force under the City Agriculture Office has dismantled 47 illegal fish pens since January this year. From January to April, the task force, headed by Maximo Solis, reported 39 fish pens were dismantled and another eight fish pens this month. The largest…
Bantay Ilog TF dismantles 47 illegal fish pens
CAPITOL NEWS Outgoing Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., (center) joins PPO officer-in-charge Edgar Allan O. Okuba (right) in pinning the medal to a female personnel, one of the 54 recipients of the accolade in recognition of the police force’s meritorious zero-election related violence in Pangasinan during the recently held national…
GATE mulls PNP, ‘shape up’ as lawmaker
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS THE Dagupan City Information and Communications Technology Council (DCICTC) will hold an Information Technology Business Process Management (IT–BPM) Industry Forum with the city’s ICT stakeholders on May 30 at CSI Stadia here in line with the city’s ongoing industry study. The forum will bring together all the major stakeholders…
IT-BPM industry forum in Dagupan, May 30
CAPITOL NEWS Governor-elect Amado “Pogi” I. Espino, III has assured the Department of Education (DepEd) of the provincial government’s support to the full implementation of Senior High School (SHS) in Pangasinan, a component of the K to 12 curriculum during the DepEd Pangasinan I SHS Caravan and Summit held at…