SEAL OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING—Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo (2nd from right) presents the facsimile of a P1-million check from the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) to Sison Mayor Mina Joy Pangasinan (2nd from left) during the DILG Region 1’s Tapatan on Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change Adaptation held in San…
SEAL OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SAN FERNANDO CITY-Twenty six local government units (LGUs) in Pangasinan received the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) worth P30 million last Tuesday here from Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. The recipient LGUs were earlier conferred the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH), a measure of excellence…
26 LGUs receive Performance Challenge Fund
TO strengthen the implementation of the environmental and sanitation programs in the city’s villages, the Liga Ng Mga Barangay and Mayor Benjamin S. Lim have entered into a memorandum of agreement for the release of P100,000 for the purchase of one three-wheeled -motorized garbage bin called “garong” for each barangay. The city…
Dagupan to purchase motorized garbage bins
TIES WITH AGBAYANIS CITED SAN CARLOS CITY—Governor Amado Espino Jr. brushed aside speculations that Senior Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa, currently chief of intelligence of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Regional Office1, will become the next police provincial director of Pangasinan.
Espino objects to Verzosa as PD
SAN CARLOS CITY—“I’m very fine. I’ve not been sick. I’d never had a heart attack and I’m back.” Thus said Gov. Amado Espino Jr. in response to the malicious spam text message that circulated in Pangasinan last week by still unidentified persons claiming that the Espino family is asking for prayer…
Guv is back in fighting form
10 DISTRICTS, NOT JUST 6 LINGAYEN—With the growing population of Pangasinan, one of the biggest among all provinces in the country, a new move seeking the reapportionment into not just seven but 10 congressional districts was initiated in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) last week.
Board mulls new reapportionment
FOR RED CROSS RELIEF OPERATIONS—Philippine National Red Cross chairman Richard Gordon (2nd from left) and Dr. Vivencio Villaflor Jr., 2nd from right) PNRC Pangasinan chapter chairman, lower the time capsule during the ceremonial groundbreaking of the PNRC warehouse . They are joined by (from extreme left) PNRC Sec. Gen. Gwendolyn Pang,…
FOR RED CROSS RELIEF OPERATIONS
LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) approved last Monday a landmark legislation that seeks to regulate the use of the natural resources of the province, extending maximum protection against abuse. SP Member Von Mark Mendoza, chairman on the committee one environment and author of the ordinance, heaved a sigh of relief after the proposal, which…
Provincial environment code finally passed
UNPERTURBED by opposing sectors, Mayor Benjamin S, Lim is bent on pursuing his proposed city government-run Children and Maternity Hospital in Dagupan. Speaking before the barangay service point officer (BSPOs) in a workshop-seminar at the West Central Elementary School Friday morning, Lim announced that the Department of Education has given the green…
Lim forges ahead with controversial city hospital
HEART ATTACK SPAM TEXT LINGAYEN—Another malicious spam text message circulated last week. This time, the source of which remains unknown, called for prayers for Governor Amado Espino Jr. who was supposedly hospitalized in the United States after suffering from a heart attack.




