IF Dagupan City has mosquito fish in stagnant waters to help contain the spread of dengue-carrying mosquitoes, San Manuel town has frogs in the farm lands to do it. This was revealed by Mayor Kenneth Perez whose town still has zero dengue deaths so far and attributed this partly to…
WHILE there is still no report of local hogs affected by African Swine Flu (ASF), hog raisers in the province were advised to avoid swill feeding of their livestock as they continue to intensify their bio-security to protect the industry against African Swine Flu (ASF). Rosendo So, chairman of Samahan…
LINGAYEN–The province registered an alarming rate of increasing teen pregnancy, owning 60 percent of the statistics in the whole of Region 1, which also includes La Union, Ilocos Sur, and Ilocos Norte. This was disclosed by Provincial Population Cooperative and Livelihood Development Officer Ellsworth Gonzales who said that in their…
ANTI-AFRICAN SWINE FLU LINGAYEN—Gov. Amado Espino III ordered a lockdown by reactivating animal control checkpoints in all entry points of the province and the quarantine task force as preemptive moves against the possible spread of the African Swine Flu to the province. The quarantine task force was organized during the…
A notorious carnapping syndicate operating in Pangasinan was believed busted after one of their members was arrested in Manaoag town and identified his cohorts on the night of August 19. The suspect, Jeffrey Perez alias “Manila Boy” and “Bornado”, 21, of Baliaug, Bulacan, is presently a resident of Bagong Barrio in…
LINGAYEN – The alert status in Manaoag has been reverted to normal after two weeks of a red alert declared by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office as preemptive action against possible ISIS planned attacks. In an interview, P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, said the restoration of Manaoag’s status to…
TO put more scientific approach in flood mitigation, Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia is set to file a bill in the House of Representatives seeking to establish the Pangasinan Integrated River Control System. De Venecia, a House deputy floor leader, called on his fellow congressmen of Pangasinan to co-sponsor the…
THE poor trade has hit the town markets due to the swine flu scare and the situation in the Lingayen market would be the norm. Marita Manaois, president of the Meat Vendors Association in Lingayen town, said all the meat vendors suffered 40% drop in their daily sales since news…
SUAL–The proposal for the construction of a second coal-fired power plant in Sual has been officially rejected. This was stressed by Sual Mayor Liseldo Calugay who said: “Kung ayaw ng aking mga kababayan ang bagong coal-fired plant ay hindi pupuede talaga.” “I vow to the will of my people,” he added….
A Dagupan City councilor has proposed a total ban on the Bulacan-cultured bangus which she referred to as an “alien bangus”, that was allowed entry to the city fish market to compete with local bangus to the detriment of Pangasinan bangus growers. Councilor Teresa Coquia, chairman on market of the…
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