CHEAP RICE AT THE KADIWA — Senior citizens, persons with disabilities (PWDs), solo parents and 4Ps members await their turn to buy 5 kilos of rice at P29 per kilo during the ‘Kadiwa sa Lingayen’ on Thursday (August 29) held at the town’s civic center. Others availed of P45 per kilo…
THE Office of Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez again wrote to the Sangguniang Panlungsod inquiring about the current status of Supplemental Budget No. 2 for 2024 which had long been pending before the committee on finance, budget and appropriations controlled by the opposition, the council’s majority bloc. The August 19, 2021 letter…
A MAN identified as Norman Mercado Talleser, who falsely represented himself as a provincial government employee and scammed job seekers into shelling out money, has been arrested along with one accomplice. The Office of the Vice Governor and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Pangasinan have issued a warning about the fraudulent…
BYPASS ROAD NOT COMPLETED TRAFFIC woes in San Carlos City are not easing soon as the bypass road that Mayor Julier Resuello is banking on to relieve congestion is just 60% done. He said the local government’s primary solution at this time is the deployment of traffic enforcers who manage…
COMELEC Chairman George Garcia demonstrates use of new voting machine (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) 100,00 VOTERS PURGED IN NEW LIST ABOUT 123,000 new voters have registered in Pangasinan as of August 15, exceeding the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) initial target of at 75,000 for the 2025 midterm elections. Atty. Marino…
HOR BUDSGET SLAMMED AGRI Partylist Rep. Wilbert Lee has vowed to push for more funds for the Department of Agriculture (DA) when the 2025 national budget hearings reach the plenary, noting that the DA’s allocation was slashed at the committee level. He said government investments in irrigation and post-harvest…
OVERSUPPLY OF TOMATOES READY TO BE DUMPED — A vegetable vendor at the Malimgas Public Market in Dagupan City frantically sells his produce for P60/kilo or 60% lower than the P160/kilo of previous weeks. Vendors must sell or dump these within days. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
TWO major agricultural infrastructure projects are underway in San Fabian — a trading hub for crops and animal products, and commercial-scale pig farms that will be managed by the local government and cooperatives. The P7-million market, part of the government’s Kadiwa program, will get a P5 million counterpart fund from…
THE Department of Science and Technology distributed 15 Portasol, a portable and stackable grain thermal drying tray, to four farmer groups in San Jacinto town last August 14. The equipment, an alternative to the conventional method of drying crops like rice and monggo on pavement and along highways, minimizes crop spoilage due to mold,…
DAGUPAN BANGUS ON THE WAY — Workers unload newly-harvested Dagupan bangus direct from fishponds at the Magsaysay fish market belying rumors of shortage of the fish. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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