PANGASINAN’S rice retailers are still at an 80% compliance rate with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Executive Order No. 39 that set price ceilings for regularly-milled rice at P41 per kilogram and well-milled rice at P45 per kilogram, according to Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Provincial Director Natalia Dalaten. This…
SECRETARY Benjamin Abalos Jr. of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) led the inauguration of 115 LED solar-powered street lights along the Angalacan River Eco-Tourism Park Road in Mangaldan town last Sunday. This project, championed by Mayor Bonafe De Vera-Parayno and the Mangaldan local government, was funded through…
AS part of its commitment to environmental preservation and supporting a green future, SM City Urdaneta Central, in partnership with Panthera Enterprises Corporation, launched its two Electric Vehicle (e-Vehicle) Charging Stations on Friday, September 15 at the mall’s Basement Parking in Urdaneta City. The e-vehicle charging station, a machine that…
MUKBANG ED DAYAT – Lingayen residents and provincial government employees and officials, partake of food prepared early morning Friday (22 September) for the 1st Mukbang ed Dayat: The Grand Boodle Picnic Fest for a cause activity held at the beachfront in Lingayen. The activity, organized by the provincial government through the health and…
THE Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region I (DA-BFAR I) inaugurated the Regional Seaweeds Nursery in Anda town on September 19, 2023. Earlier in June this year, DA-BFAR 1 entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Anda local government to establish and develop a Regional Seaweeds…
THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Dagupan City succeeded in clearing a backlog of 5,000 replacement plates for vehicles registered since 2015. LTO Dagupan District Officer Romel Dawatan announced that the central office sent these replacement plates, numbers 1 to 9. Dawatan urged motor vehicle registrants who have paid for…
THE San Carlos City government , in collaboration with the City Cooperative, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Development Office (CCELDO) and the Schools Division Office (SDO) of San Carlos, initiated a dishwashing liquid soap-making workshop as part of the “Solution Dilima” program at Salinap National High School. To support this initiative, the…
SEAWALL STOPS FISHERMEN’S LIVELIHOOD – Different fisherfolk groups are protesting the ongoing construction of steel seawall in front of their communities because it will prevent them from doing their usual fishing activity using the beach seine (kalokor). (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN has enough rice buffer stocks for the next 30-60 days according to an official of the National Food Authority (NFA)-Pangasinan. Frederick Dulay, NFA assistant manager, said , “We have enough buffer stocks,” but declined to reveal the volume available at the warehouse. “Sapat na sapat,” he said, adding that…
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)–Pangasinan has seen an increase in compliance rate among rice retailers in the implementation of Executive Order No. 39, or a 90 to 95-percent increase from last week’s 80-percent. This was bared by Guillermo Avelino Jr., chief of the Consumer Protection Division of DTI-Pangasinan…
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