By Rex Catubig SABEL, for her part, chooses to set up her “pakanan” — a street version of fast-food, further down the main street, in front of a store that is already closed for the night, and just slightly across the CSI Square. In a departure from the carinderia-caldero-caserola…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MARCH 17 – (Dagupan City) Epifania de Guzman, Nenita Solomon; (Manaoag) Joana T. Padua MARCH 20 – (Calasiao) Luzviminda Zarate; (Mangaldan) Noemi Segundo MARCH 22 – (Dagupan City) Ronald Gonzales Happy Birthday! LERMA MANAOIS (March 18 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! BARTOLOME DIOQUINO JR. (March 20 – Calasiao)…
THE PUNCH’s news story this week about the status of National Food Authority (NFA)-Pangasinan’s rice buffer stock in the province reveals both the agency’s standard operating policy and the magnitude of the anomaly behind the sale of 75,000 bags of buffer stock by the NFA central office to two favored…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT’S beginning to be frustrating and disappointing to see how the investigation of the scandalous sale of NFA’s buffer rice stock is proceeding even with a high ranking official of the agency as whistleblower. Whistleblower Lemuel Paguyuan, Assistant Administrator for operations, surely knows whence he…
HELLO CSWD! WHERE ARE YOU?– Three homeless families have camped out under the Pantal-Lucao Bridge De Venecia Diversion Road (AB Fernandez Ave. West) Dagupan City for the past 2 months and their presence there seems to be invisible to the City Social Welfare Department. If the families are not relocated, soon the…
THE five-minority in the Dagupan Sanggunian went on record last week seeking to invalidate the new amendments introduced by the opposition in the Internal Rules of Procedures or House Rules of the Sangguniang Panlungsod constantly being cited by the latter to justify regularity of its actions and recommendations. But simply…
VICE Governor Mark Lambino expressed confidence that Pangasinan will be able to overcome the impact of El Niño phenomenon but equally expressed concern over its effects, particularly on farmers whose livelihood depends on farming. In an interview with the local media on March 4, Lambino said based on their assessment,…
NO worries. Pangasinan has enough rice buffer stocks despite the El Niño phenomenon. Frederick Dulay, assistant branch manager of the National Food Authority-Pangasinan, said their palay stocks as of March 7 totaled 17,000 bags, and when converted to rice, it is around 11,000 bags. The shelf life of their stocks…
I WILL BE RABIES-FREE SOON! — This appears to be the message of a pet dog who calmly faced The PUNCH camera while waiting for its turn to be given free vaccine shot during the veterinary medical mission conducted by the Provincial Veterinary Office last week in observance of the Rabies Awareness…
HOLCIM DEAL NOT MAXIMIZED IF theDagupan City government can deliver more compacted wastes to the Holcim Cement Plant in Norzagaray, Bulacan it would be enable to reduce the volume of wastes at the dumpsite by 70 percent on or before the end of 2024. Mayor Belen Fernandez said the city…
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