LINGAYEN–Pangasinan now stands as the leader among all provinces in the country in providing health insurance to indigent citizens who cannot afford to pay for hospital bills. This was announced by Dr. Eduardo Banzon, president of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) who was here on June 4 to sign a…

DAGUPAN’s P581 million budget for 2012 failed anew to get the stamp of approval of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for lack of required documents. Atty. Janet Abuel, DBM regional director, sent a letter dated May 15, 2012 to the members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod chaired by Vice…

WORSENING GARBAGE DISPOSAL OFFICIALS of Dagupan who continue to fail to respond to the worsening garbage problem of the city are facing not just a possible legal suit but protest action from the public. Atty. Gonzalo Duque, in his capacity as a private citizen, earlier threatened to file for the Writ…

ILLEGAL DUMPSITE—Residents of Sitio Gayaman, Barangay Tambac in Dagupan protest heaps of decaying garbage piling up on a private lot that appears to have been converted into a dumpsite by the barangay with the blessings of city officials. Back to Homepage

DAGUPAN City Hall is under fire for dumping garbage extracted from the its open dumpsite to two private lots in Bonuan Boquig, still officials of Barangay Tambac in the city decided on setting up its own dumpsite in the barangay to the consternation of the residents.

THE central office of the Department of Education (DepEd) has refused to yield to the city government’s plan to transfer the Juan P. Guadiz Elementary School in Dagupan to give way to the planned 24-bed lying-in clinic of Mayor Benjamin Lim. Dr. William Macob, education program supervisor of DepEd in…

VACATION is over. School year 2012-2013 starts tomorrow, June 4, for all public schools around the country, which also marks the launch of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) new K + 12 program.

SAN FABIAN—A group of whale sharks, locally known as butanding, is now a crowd drawer in the shoreline of Barangay Nibaliw Vidal here, providing an alternative source of income to some 15 fishermen who have momentarily hanged up their nets and began shuttling tourists to the area.

FOR VIOLATION OF R. A. 9003 CLEAN up or face charges in court. This was the threat posed by lawyer Gonzalo Duque, president of Lyceum Northwestern University in Dagupan, as the city continues to face a mounting garbage problem. Duque, also president of the Pangasinan Press Club, said in his…

THE petition of some 700 residents of Barangay Bonuan Boquig protesting the dumping of garbage extracted from the dumpsite to two private lots near their homes is now in the hands of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). This was disclosed by…