IF BARANGAY, SK ELECTIONS ARE POSTPONED UNLESS Congress orders postponement anew, the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections scheduled on October 23, it’s all systems go for the local offices of the Commission on Elections in Pangasinan. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas said there are 2.4 million voters in Pangasinan, increasing…

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MOSQUITOES USE mosquito fish instead of using chemicals to fight mosquitoes. This advice was reiterated by Dr. Westley Rosario, head of BFAR – National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center. He advised the public to use biological control through dispersal of more mosquito fish in stagnant waters because it…

MOSQUITO fish (Gambusia affinis) is once again at the center of popularity for it’s the front line defense against dengue. The latest to use them are the chapters of Lions Clubs International Dist. 301-C Northern Philippines whose key officers met at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for…

BOOSTED by a legal opinion of the Department of Interior and Local Government, the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod vowed to pass the ordinance seeking the transfer of the Dagupan City Hall from A. B. Fernandez Avenue to Barangay Pantal before the end of this month. This after Councilor…

THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 1 has assured the Dagupan City government that the dredging of the city’s Pantal River will continue for another year. The assurance was made by DPWH Region 1 EMD Office headed by Engineer Dejosis Domagas and Engineer Jaime Silen when they…

LINGAYEN—Pangasinan schools have responded positively to the Department of Education’s Project Bridgada Marawi which seeks to rehabilitate and clean the premises of damaged school buildings in Marawi City as a result of the fighting between government forces and Maute terrorists that is still going on in that city. Education Assistant Secretary Tomasino Umali confirmed…

LINGAYEN—The Department of Education (DepEd) is providing psycho-social interventions to teaching and non-teaching personnel as well as displaced learners following the still ongoing Marawi siege. DepEd Assistant Secretary Tonisito Umali told KBP Forum last week that they are utilizing teachers to help displaced learners. “Of the more or else 30,000…

LINGAYEN—Thirty-seven students displaced by the ongoing Marawi siege have transferred to different schools in Region 1. Data furnished by the Department of Education Region 1 Director Alma Ruby Torio showed two are in the Division of Candon City, one in the Division of Vigan City, five in the Division of Ilocos…