DAGUPAN’S NEVER-ENDING OPERATIONS WHILE some 68 illegal fish pens here were recently demolished by the Task Force Bantay Ilog (TFBI), it appears the complete clearing of the rivers of illegal pens still cannot be achieved as mandated by the city ordinance. Maximo Solis operations leader, confirmed this in an interview…
ALAMINOS CITY—The world-famous Hundred Islands National park again played host to foreign tourists on board a MS Caledonian Sky, a luxury cruise ship that sailed from Australia two weeks ago. Solomon Tablang, head of the City Tourism Office, told The PUNCH it’s the third visit of the ship, this time…
HERE’S a bit of good news for the province’s farmers! The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Pangasinan office is set to implement this year a total of P416-million worth of irrigation projects. Now the bad news. Engr. Teodoro Paragas, provincial irrigation management office head of the NIA-Project Irrigation Management Office, told…
LINGAYEN–More than 180,000 hectares of farmland in Pangasinan will be planted with rice in this year’s planting season which already started this month. According to Dalisay Moya, officer-in-charge at the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, at least 40 percent of the areas set to be planted, are rainfed. Moya said…
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) started distributing seedlings to farmers in preparation for the planting season in Region 1. DA-Region 1 Director Valentino Perdido said the distributions of high breed and certified seeds for the municipalities with budget allocation for seedlings in Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. DA…
INDEPENDENCE Day proved to be a lucky day for 107 job applicants who went to the “Kalayaan 2016: Pagkakaisa, Pag-aambagan, Pagsulong” job fair at Nepo Mall in Dagupan City last June 12. Eighteen local companies and four international companies participated in the day-long job fair that offered 8,108 job vacancies….
2016 MIGRANT WORKERS’ DAY FOUR Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from Pangasinan were cited for “exemplifying highest honor and dignity in their toil” during the celebration of the 2016 Migrant Worker’s Day in Region 1, last June 7 at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Convention Hall, City of San Fernando, La…
CAPITOL NEWS 118TH PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY. Outgoing Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (left photo) leads the officialdom of the province in commemorating the 118th Philippine Independence Day held on June 12 at the Pangasinan Heritage Center, formerly known as the Bengzon-Yuson ancestral house located at the Lingayen town proper….
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS KIZZIAH Ella Mariñas Claveria, a Grade 9 student of St. John’s Cathedral School (SJCS), is this year’s Manlingkor ya Kalangweran’s (MYK) Young City Mayor. She and 56 students from the different public and private schools completed the three-day leadership training last June 7-9 at West Central 1…
CAPITOL NEWS TRIPLE BUILDING INAUGURATION. Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (left photo), with provincial government office heads and employees, spearheads the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the newly renovated NRSCC Restaurant (upper right photo) at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center, the final of the three-fold blessing and dedication of three…
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