THE San Carlos City government is set to procure 12 more modular smart houses in addition to the six modular houses earlier bought by the city, as supplementary isolation facilities in anticipation of a possible surge of COVID-19 cases in the city. This was confirmed by City Information Officer Jhuliano…
NO LIVELIHOOD FOR AMBULANT FISH VENDORS – While workers of consignatories unload newly harvested Dagupan bangus at the Magsaysay Market, ambulant fish vendors find themselves unable to sell it since they have been relocated out of the Magsaysay Market. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE displaced ambulant fish vendors are not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. After a more than two-hour hearing of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committee on markets last Thursday, September 2, on the plight of 72 small-scale ambulant fish vendors in the city who were relocated to…
NO CLEARANCE, PERMITS THE Sangguniang Panlungsod questioned the ongoing backfilling of several fishponds covering a large tract of land by Eternal Gardens along the Jose De Venecia Expressway Extension for the latter’s expansion area, noting that the backfilling activities are not covered by clearance from the SP nor did it…
WANDERING HOMELESS MAN – PUNCH lensman Butch Uka saw this naked man wandering aimlessly through the De Venecia Highway and Lucao Road and followed him until a resident in a village approached and gave him clothes to wear. The City Social Welfare team arrived later with a package of clothing then set…
THE Mangaldan government conducted its examination for municipal scholarship in 29 barangays last August 21. The scholarship is offered for incoming Grade 7 students from low-income families with good academic records who will be enrolled in a public high school in Mangaldan this school year. According to the Municipal Planning…
CAPITOL NEWS GOV. POGI CONVENES HOSPITAL CHIEFS FOR COVID RESPONSE. Governor Amado I. Espino III convenes all the chiefs of the 14-provincial government-run hospitals for the latest COVID-19 situation across the province on September 2. Among the topics discussed were the issues, concerns, and challenges faced by the hospital staff…
FOURTH District Rep. Christopher de Venecia has delivered on his commitment to help ease the constant flooding in Dagupan through the implementation of several flood mitigation projects, the biggest of which is the newly completed flood control project along the lower Pantal River basin from Poblacion Oeste to Barangay 1. Built…
CAPITOL NEWS AQUA FARMING PROJECT. Governor Amado I. Espino III (left photo) expresses his gratitude to Mr. Kazuo Sato who represented Tokushima Auction Market during a meeting held at the Capitol Resort Hotel on August 31 to discuss the Aqua Farming Project that will be initiated in the province Pangasinan…
CAPITOL NEWS THE province of Pangasinan will soon become leader in aqua-agri products production, processing and export worldwide through the soon-to-rise Aqua Farming Project. To make this possible, Governor Amado “Pogi” I. Espino III earlier inked a Memorandum of Understating (MOU) with Tokushima Auction Market (TAM), a Japanese government-owned corporation…
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