DON’T look now but Binalonan town will yet become an industrial park in the region by 2027 with the expected US$ 164.5-million worth of investment by a Japanese firm this year for the establishment of a manufacturing plant for car wirings. Fifth District Rep. Ramon Guico III said Sumi North…
BACKYARD GARDENING — A homeowner who started her own vegetable garden since a lockdown was checks her bitter gourd (ampalaya) plant. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
BACKYARD GARDENING
RICE TRAFFICATION LAW WORKED THE Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) lauded the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the improved price of palay price that benefitted farmers even as he cited the positive effects of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) that reduced volume of rice importation. Rosendo So, Sinag chair, said…
Sinag lauds DA for improved palay price
STRANDED AT ROSALES-TARLAC BORDER — On May 26, 52 more stranded Pangasinenses at the Rosales-Tarlac border are given entry to the province of Pangasinan through the assistance of the Provincial Government of Pangasinan. Shown in the photo are personnel from the Provincial Health Office (PHO) who administered the swab tests…
STRANDED AT ROSALES-TARLAC BORDER
UNDER COVID-19 FOURTH District Rep. Christopher de Venecia is not in favor of the suggestion to forgo classes next school year because of the threat of COVID-19 but wants all the necessary issues to be ironed out first before classes are finally opened August 24 this year. This was conveyed…
De Venecia hails DepEd’s new modes of teaching
CAPITOL NEWS IN hope of easing the burden of stranded Pangasinenses and to prevent them from getting infected, the Provincial Government of Pangasinan led by Governor Amado I. Espino III staged various operations to bring back to the province locally stranded individuals (LSIs) and repatriated OFWs. Among the locally-stranded individuals…
LSIs, OFWs return to Pangasinan
CAPITOL NEWS REPATRIATED OFWS — The Provincial Government of Pangasinan also supports the Overseas Workers Welfare Association’s (OWWA) “Tulong-Sundo sa OFWs Project” by mobilizing its provincial buses, one 6×6 rescue truck and support personnel on a 24-hour basis to transport 565 repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers at the drop-off point in…
REPATRIATED OFWS
AGENTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested the drug den maintainer and four others in what was supposed to be a mere buys-bust operation in Barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City that led to the seizure of PHP 85,000 worth of suspected shabu in an operation last May…
PDEA nabs drug den maintainer, 4 users
SIX most wanted persons in Pangasinan and Baguio City were arrested in their respective homes during the current General Community Quarantine (GCQ). According to the Police Regional Office 1 (PRO 1), among those arrested was Dennis Murao, 33, a resident of Barangay Bila in Sison town, the No. 13 ‘most wanted’…
Five ‘most wanted’ persons arrested
BELIEVE it when the government says the ECQ brought the crime rate down. Jenie Dizon, a resident of Pasig City, deemed as the second most wanted person in Metro Manila, was arrested by police joint elements in Brgy. Sta. Maria in Mapandan. The lockdown in many towns during the ECQ…