BENEFITS OF SOLAR ENERGY HERE is a bit of good news for residences that use solar panels. The Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) has adopted the net metering system (NMS) that will allow customers that use solar panels to pay less or nothing for their electric consumption. “This is one way…
AGUILAR— Swift action by the local government saved this town from a potential environmental disaster. The timely intervention of the town’s mayor stopped the illegal copper mining activity in Barangay Manlocboc and prevented further wanton destruction of the town’s farmlands. Mayor Eduardo Ballesteros said he stopped the small mining activity…
BAUTISTA–Her eyesight is gone but her future is looking good. Twenty-three year old Arhjessa Espiritu’s optimism about the beauty of life never fades, even after she became visually-impaired when she reached 18. “I want to be an inspiration. I want to make people see that life is beautiful despite the odds,”…
BUGALLON—Criminals are now finding Pangasinan a dangerous place to live in. A still unidentified suspect who eluded a checkpoint found this out too late when he was killed in a shootout with responding police officers last Thursday night. But the shootout also resulted in the wounding of two children who…
CCTV, ALARMS, GUARDS, HELMETS TO help prevent and solve crime cases in Dagupan City, business establishments are now required to institute basic security measures and the local enforcement of the helmet law has been revised. An ordinance was passed by the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) last Monday requiring business establishments…
THE FOREVER ‘PASAWAYS’ – Two ‘pasaway’ students run to cross Arellano street in Dagupan City obviously hoping they would not be noticed ignoring Balon Dagupan’s huge tarpaulin sign appealing to them to use the foot bridge (overpass). Unfortunately, there is no traffic enforcer with enough zeal to enforce the anti-jaywalking…
NO PERMIT, NO BUSINESS IN a bid to level the playing field for the business sector, the Dagupan City government will no longer tolerate delinquent business establishments to continue operating if these cannot present current business and mayor’s permits each year. The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) here made certain of this…
LINGAYEN–Contrary to what it announced last week, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) decided to suspend action on the proposed ordinance requiring business establishments operating in the province to provide separate comfort rooms (CRs) for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBTs). In an interview after last week’s session, Board Member Alfie Bince,…
BALOLONG MURDER CASE LINGAYEN –Two more suspects were charged in the killing of Urbiztondo town mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. and the death of two others last June 7. Cases have been filed against a certain Ramil Santos and Eduardo Nicolas, both natives of Malabon City, OIC-provincial police director PSSupt. Sterling…
URBIZTONDO—The new mayor here who succeeded slain Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. said the town has been plunged into a deep financial debt worth P60-million. Obligations include unpaid Government Service Insurance System premiums, P3 million; unpaid electric bills to Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative, P7 million; several hundreds of thousands of pesos owed…
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