LINGAYEN — Pangasinan has a new official seal and flag. It was made official by virtue of the Provincial Ordinance No. 11-2017 authored by Board Member Jeremy Agerico B. Rosario, entitled “An Ordinance Adopting the Official Seal and the Official Flag of the Province of Pangasinan,” unanimously approved during the February…
FOR URBANITES’ RURAL LIVING WHO says urban life can’t afford a garden plot and a fish pond? A vegetable garden with fish condo at the rooftop of one’s abode is the newest attraction developed at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources –National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (BFAR-NIFTDC)…
WAR ON ILLEGAL GAMBLING MALASIQUI—While the PNP leadership in Camp Crame has been heard to be cracking the whip to push the latest declared war on illegal gambling to a higher level, Pangasinan police still has little to show in accomplishments. Responding to a barrage of questions from the local…
GARBAGE CRISIS STAVED OFF THE feared garbage crisis in Dagupan City was allayed after city residents were noted to be responding positively to the call of the city government to segregate their household wastes after the city’s open dumpsite in Bonuan had been closed January 21. Mayor Belen T. Fernandez…
THE city of Dagupan is being eyed as a potential economic zone to host foreign investors in a bid to help prime up the economy of the country and boost the 10-point agenda of President Rodrigo Duterte. This was bared by Emmanuel SD Lopez, consultant of the Philippine Economic Zone…
PANGASINAN’S LONE DRUG-FREE TOWN STO. TOMAS—Finally, this municipality finally got the recognition it rightfully deserves for being the first and the lone drug-free town in Pangasinan. On Feb. 13, the provincial board through Provincial Resolution No. 167-2017 commended Sto. Tomas, town for being the first drug-free community in Pangasinan in…
PNP’S STAND DOWN ORDER WITH the undermanned Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as the lead agency in the campaign against illegal drugs, the situation in Dagupan appears to have began to turn for the worse even before it could get better. P/Supt. Neil Miro, acting police chief, said his station…
TILAPIA SEEDING–Gov. Amado Espino III (center) leads the ceremonial seeding of some 300,000 tilapia fingerlings into the re-regulating pond of the San Roque Dam built by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) to boost fishery production in farms being serviced by the Agno River Irrigation System (ARIS) in Pangasinan. With Espino…
BURGOS DRUG REHAB CENTER LINGAYEN — Gov. Amado Espino III announced the start of the construction of the drug rehabilitation center in Burgos town for lightly and moderately affected drug users who surrendered. The announcement was made a week after the donation of a two-hectare lot was formalized through a deed…
DAGUPAN City’s open dumpsite is now undergoing rehabilitation in compliance with Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.” Waste Management chief Ronaldo De Guzman told the public hearing conducted by the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, chaired by Councilor Jeslito Seen, last…
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