PILOT TEST FOR PHILIPPINES LINGAYEN—Pangasinenses stand to benefit the most once the integrated geographic information system (GIS) of Japan are fully operational because it will help residents to be more prepared and, therefore, more resilient as the Japanese people are to disasters. The launching of the Japan International Cooperation Agency…

REGION 1 Medical Center (R1MC) is not in the business of endorsing food or drug supplements, especially those not approved by Food and drug Administration. This was stressed by the management of the R1MC amid reports that a certain hospital personnel has been visiting out-patients prescribing the use of a…

THE Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) has assured that security measures are in place to ensure the peaceful celebration of the forthcoming Bangus (Milkfish) Festival. P/Sr. Insp. Joseph Sibayan, deputy chief of police, said a 200-strong force of police personnel from DCPS, provincial and regional public safety units will be…

THE regional offices of the Departments of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Science and Technology (DOST) in the Ilocos have forged an agreement on Tuesday to collaborate closely for the rehabilitation, preservation and protection of the Agno River Basin (ARB) in Pangasinan. The memorandum of cooperation tasks DOST to…

THE Pangasinan State University (PSU)-Lingayen campus will lead the advocacy for planting of mangroves for environmental preservation and protection for the community it serves on April 27. Dr. Armando Junio, campus executive director of PSU-Lingayen, said the initiative is part of the university’s mandate to adhere to its extension function…

LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Socrates Villegas cautioned his fellow priests in his archdiocese whose lifestyles he noticed have changed not to be influenced by citations heaped on them. He told them not “to allow the awards and titles, the position and the experience…

PROMOTION OF PANGASINAN CULTURE FIVE private tertiary schools in the province- University of Luzon, Lyceum Northwestern University, University of Pangasinan, Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation, and Colegio De Dagupan- will sign a memorandum of agreement to support the Pangasinan Studies Center. The establishment of the PSC was an offshoot of a…

GILON-GILON DAY, APRIL 8 THE city’s main thoroughfares will be closed to traffic on April 8 for the grand opening of this year’s Bangus Festival and the popular Gilon-Gilon ed Baley street dancing competition. Traffic rerouting will start at 12:00 o’clock noon before the 3 p.m. parade that will start from Burgos Street to Guilig Street-Perez…

SOME Php20 billion was spent by the Aquino administration in Pangasinan from 2010 to 2015, according to former Finance Undersecretary Jose Vicente Bengzon. In a press conference Thursday at the Philippine Information Agency media center, Mr. Bengzon said that of the amount, at least Php14.8 million was spent by the Department of Public…

TAKING SELFIE PICS CAN BE DANGEROUS BAYAMBANG—Two siblings and their cousin drowned on Agno River in Barangay Carungay here Wednesday afternoon after they fell from a bamboo raft while taking selfie photos. The victims were Kyla Bautista, 16, and her brother Kenneth Bautista, 20, and their cousin Karen San Jose,…