LINGAYEN—Pangasinan finally did it! Pangasinan II bagged the overall championship title in this year’s Region I Athletic Association (R1AA), dethroning Ilocos Norte, the perennial champion for the past 11 years.
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MANGALDAN—The five head teachers here who were implicated in the purported leakage of test questions in the National Achievement Test for Grade VI pupils were slapped with a 90-day preventive suspension by the Department of Education (DepEd). DepEd Regional Director Ligaya Miguel imposed the preventive suspension pending the formal investigation…
5 suspended over NAT leak
LINGAYEN–April 5 is a special non-working holiday in the province in celebration of “Agew na Pangasinan”. The holiday, marking the 431st foundation anniversary of the province, is covered by Proclamation No. 103 of the Office of the President of the Philippines, signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
Non-working holiday on April 5
BSL’S VETO EXPECTED THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan finally approved last March 16 the 2011 annual budget of the city, but with significant cuts from the proposal submitted Mayor Benjamin Lim. Contained in Draft Ordinance No. 0-433, the SP-approved budget amounts to P487 million, 15 percent or P81 million…
SP OKs slashed budget
THE FINAL CAUCUS— Members of the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod hold a caucus during a two-minute recess that preceded the approval of the city’s P487 million budget during their special session last March 16. Joining the caucu are Councilors Jeslito Seen, Luis Samson Jr., Alvin Coquia, Maybelyn Fernandez, Alfie Fernandez,…
THE FINAL CAUCUS
VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, defended the P487 million budget approved by the city council, lower than the proposed P568 million, as a conscientious move and not politically-motivated. “We will not do that just for the sake of politics,” said Fernandez, pointing out that the budget…
No politics in approved budget — VM Fernandez
LINGAYEN–Despite the nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan as an aftermath of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit the country, some provincial board members are not changing their position to construct nuclear plants in the province.
BMs insist on nukes in Pangasinan
PANGASINAN IS NUMBER 1–The Pangasinan provincial government team, led by Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (2nd row, middle), flashes the number one sign during the culminating rites of their three-day Strategic Planning and Team Building Workshop conducted at the San Roque Dam in San Manuel town last March 10 to…
PANGASINAN IS NUMBER 1
MANGALDAN—Scandal rocked the National Achievement Test (NAT) for Grade VI pupils last week when eight public school teachers from this town were caught red-handed with reproduced copies of the test booklets. The eight teachers are all advisers of Grade VI students of the Mangaldan Central School.
8 Mangaldan teachers in NAT leakage probed
SHELLFISH harvested from the waters of Bolinao and Anda are currently contaminated by red tide and not safe for consumption. Based on its monitoring, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) issued an advisory last week confirming that the waters of the two western Pangasinan towns are affected by…
