BRIGHT CHRISTMAS — Residents of Dagupan and neighboring towns are beginning to crowd stalls that display long array of brightly-lit lanterns in different shapes and images that line up the highway on Carangalaan District in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
WHERE is the international seaport promised by the national government to the people of Sual town? This is the question uppermost in the mind of Sual Mayor Roberto Arcinue daily since the Aquino government had a ground-breaking ceremony in 2012 with officials of the Philippine Ports Authority on hand. In…
Sual’s dream for an international seaport remains
CLIMATE change brings bad news to farmers in Pangasinan. There will not be enough water to irrigate rice farms, particularly in eastern Pangasinan, during the coming dry months next year. This was bared by Ceferino Sta. Ana, project manager of the Agno Irrigation System Extension Project, a special project of the National…
NIA: Not enough water for farms next summer
THE Agno River Irrigation System Extension Project (ARISEP) expected to be completed in December 2018, will benefit more than 10,000 farmers in eight towns tilling 12,984 hectares of land in Pangasinan. This was revealed by Ceferino Sta. Ana, project manager of ARISEP, a major irrigation project in Pangasinan, when he briefed…
Irrigation for eight towns seen in December 2018
ALAMINOS CITY—Up to 753 hectares of rice farms in seven rice producing towns of eastern Pangasinan have already been infested by Rice Black Bug (RBB), Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAg) officer-in-charge Dalisay Moya said on Wednesday. Moya clarified, however, that those infested comprised only a little portion of the 150,000 hectares…
Rice Black Bug infests rice land in eastern towns
TODAY’Ss car owners and prospective buyers in Pangasinan are expected to be awed by the new Vitara by compact car maker Suzuki Philippines (SPH) recently launched in Manila. Designed to match the growing automotive market in the country, the new-generation Vitara encapsulates the Suzuki SUV legacy while capturing modern design…
New-generation Vitara arrives in Pangasinan
FUTURE BROADCASTERS – High school students participating in the Dagupan City Division Schools Press Conference held at Lyceum Northwestern University rehearse their lines before the actual competition in Radio Script Writing and Broadcasting. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FUTURE BROADCASTERS
ALAMINOS CITY—She may not be a Pangasinense but this James Bond girl shows how much she loves the Philippines, particularly Pangasinan, and is out to show to the world the positive news about the country. Rachel Grant of British-Filipino descent, in a video call interview, she’d like to do more…
Bond girl promotes Pangasinan in 12-series video
BITSTOP IN TUNISIA – Managing Director and Founder, Bandwidth Signal and Statistics (BASS) Project Wilson Chua (inset), speaks before the participants as a panelist for the discussion on ‘Crowdsourcing ICT Data’ during the 15th World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators Symposium held in Hammamet in Tunisia organized by ITU, United Nations specialized…
BITSTOP IN TUNISIA
JUANITO “Jun” Velasco was among 70 graduates of Manuel L. Quezon University who were honored last Saturday at Wack Wack Golf and Country Club to mark the university’s 70th anniversary. A graduate of AB in Journalism class 1967, he was a member of the Quezonian editorial staff, editor in…