LINGAYEN’S Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) has a new volunteer – Steve Grayson Black II, a 30-year- old US Peace Corps Volunteer. He will serve as a regular staff member for two years in Lingayen effective April 17. Black, from Tennessee, USA, who joined the Monday flag raising…
THE Department of Health–Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) Region I is eyeing the inoculation of 935,130 children, aged five below in the region, as it ramps up the fight against measles-rubella, and polio. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, Medical Officer IV of the DOH-CHD1, said among the near-one million children in the…
DOH to inoculate 935k children in Region 1 vs sicknesses
THE Guico administration and the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) are taking bold steps to aid Urban Poor families (UPFs) in the province. In a meeting between PCUP Undersecretary Elpidio R. Jordan, Jr., Provincial Legal Officer Atty. Baby Ruth Torre and Provincial Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Officer…
Program for the urban poor to be strengthened
(By 104.7 IFM Dagupan News Team) Marijuana uprooted in Labrador GOVERNMENT troops uprooted 140 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P8,000 that were planted by still undetermined persons in the hilly Barangay Tobuan in Labrador in operation Oplan Gapas. The Pangasinan PNP, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) provincial office and…
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LONGEST AND HEAVIEST – Two usherettes at the Dagupan Bangus Rodeo hold the winners in the “longest” and “heaviest” bangus contest during the Bangus Festival 2023. The longest was 92 cm. while the heaviest was 7.87 kg. Both won for their owners P15,000 each. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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THE Alliance of United Transport Organization Provincewide (AUTOPRO) Pangasinan expressed willingness to support the government’s PUV Modernization Program, provided its members, jeepney operators and drivers, are given two years to comply. Bernard Tuliao, AUTOPRO-Pangasinan head, in an interview Monday, April 17, said “intrinsically, the modernization will ultimately benefit the drivers…
PUV group wants modernization plan extended for two more years
THE capital town of Lingayen will soon have its own storage facility and fish processing plant in Barangay Poblacion after the Food Terminal Incorporated (FTI) held its groundbreaking ceremony for its Regional Food Terminal on April 14. Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil said establishment of the facility is a dream come…
Regional Food Terminal to rise in Lingayen
THE Social Security System (SSS) announced on Friday that it plans to hire additional Persons with Disability (PWDs) in its branches and offices, including Pangasinan. SSS President and CEO Rolando Macasaet said that even as the SSS is compliant with the Magna Carta for PWDs, it continues to look for…
SSS eyes hiring of PWDs in branches, offices in 2023
THE Securities and Exchange Commission–Baguio Extension Office (SEC-BEO) is encouraging eligible corporations in Pangasinan to avail of the amnesty on penalties incurred from late and non-filing of General Information Sheet, Annual Financial Statement, and the MC28 Report.| The Commission recently issued SEC Memorandum Circular No. 2, Series of 2023, or…
SEC grants amnesty for eligible corporations
TO further improve power transmission services, NGCP recently energized new power transformers in several substations as part of the second stage of its North Luzon Substation Upgrading Project. In February, NGCP energized its 100 MegaVolt-Ampere (MVA) Transformer 1 in Tuguegarao Substation in Cagayan, and another 100MVA Transformer 1 in San…