THE compressed four-day workweek in the local government unit (LGU) of Bayambang has been extended. The Executive Order No. 62 series of 2024 issued by Mayor Niña Jose-Quiambao, ordered that the extended four-day workweek shall take effect on July 1, 2024 and to remain in force, unless otherwise modified or…
THE Dagupan City government is not the least worried about reports of impending closure of the Metro Clark Sanitary Landfill in Capas, Tarlac because there is Holcim Philippines that takes most of the city’s wastes. And if the seven majority councilors decide to subject the city’s exploratory agreement with Holcim…
THE local government of Villasis received an “unqualified opinion” for 2023 from the Commission on Audit (COA), the highest opinion the agency can give. In a letter by Omar Manaoat, supervising auditor of COA Regional Office 1, addressed to Mayor Nonato Abrenica dated June 24, 2024, he transmitted the Annual…
WATERLESS HOUSEHOLDS IN THE CITY — A huge column of water bursts from a transmission line busted by an excavator digging near the foot of the Quintos Bridge at the intersection of A.B. Fernandez Avenue on Tuesday (June 25), necessitating immediate repair works by Pamana Water Corporation that rendered some 1,000 households and…
SOME 1,000 households and establishments in six barangays of Dagupan were rendered waterless for 12 hours when an excavator accidentally hit a water transmission line at the corner of A.B. Fernandez Avenue and Nable Street at about 4:00 pm on Tuesday, June 25. Rendered waterless were homes and establishments in Barangays Pantal, Herrero-…
THE Women’s Unity for Progress and Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative (MPC) in Mapandan recently received a significant boost from the Department of Agriculture (DA) under its KADIWA Financial Grant Assistance program. The cooperative was handed a P3-M check to support their agricultural endeavors. Annabelle Meneses and Anastacia Cabida, general manager and…
THE Department of Science and Technology Regional Office I is set to grant more than P8.4 million worth of “Innovation Fund” to 11 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Pangasinan under the agency’s Small Enterprises Technology Upgrading Program. DOST said the fund seeks to provide small-scale businesses with financial aid,…
EARLY MORNING CATCH – Fishermen pull in their net with their catch early morning along the Binmaley beach. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE provincial government signed a memorandum of agreement with the Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation for the Group Enrollment Program (GEP) to cover the five percent PhilHealth premium contributions of its 2,415 job order (JO) and contract of service (COS) workers. PhilHealth contributions are payments usually made by employees and…
THE Mariveles-Hermosa-San Jose 500kV Line now at full 8,000MW capacity. On 23 June 2024, NGCP energized the Hermosa-San Jose 500-kiloVolt (kV) transmission line at its full 8,000 MegaWatts (MW) capacity. A part of the Mariveles-Hermosa-San Jose 500kV facility, the line will accommodate an additional 2,200MW of supply from new power…
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