FIVE security guards finally received their monetary claims against a Malabon-based security agency seven months after being separated from the company. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Dagupan Field Office helped resolve the money claim within six days under the Single Entry Approach or SEnA.

TREE-CUTTING ALONG MNR LINGAYEN–The provincial government may file a petition before the court seeking to stop the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) from continuing with the cutting down of the remaining standing trees along the Manila North Road (MNR) in Pangasinan. Lawyer Verna Perez, secretary of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…

PNP REORGANIZATION & MODERNIZATION ACT LINGAYEN— Graduates of K to 12 program can already look forward to joining the Philippine National Police (PNP) as patrol officers once the PNP Reorganization and Modernization Act is approved. This was disclosed during the fourth public hearing on the draft substitute bill, ”An Act…

THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution last week expressing the city’s intent to establish a “Sisterhood” city relationship with Daly City in California, USA on motion of Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo.  Daly City is the largest city in the San Mateo County immediately south of San Francisco City with a population of…

THE barangay chairman of Barangay Herrero-Perez in Dagupan City was dismissed from service after being found guilty of serious dishonesty and grave misconduct.  Marilyn Mendoza was dismissed from her post by the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon after deciding on the case filed by Anita Tiongson against the…

TOBACCO farmers traced some P300 million of the P1.2 billion share of the fifth district of Pangasinan from the tobacco excise tax for year 1997 to 2007 to Alcala town. The farmers belonging to the Northern Central Luzon Tobacco Farmers  Association (NLCTFA) said at least P232 million of this (P300)…

LINGAYEN— Two public hospitals in the province are set to receive additional medical equipment.  Last week, the provincial board approved provincial resolution no. 1699-2015 authorizing the Governor Amado Espino Jr. to enter into and sign memoranda of agreement (MOA) with HIMEX Corporation and United Diagnostic Supply (UDS) for the provision…

LINGAYEN— The 18 towns comprising the first and second districts in the province received on Friday (November 27) an early Christmas gift from the provincial government, as each was provided with a multipurpose vehicle. The multipurpose vehicles, Mitsubishi L300 model, were turned over to the respective Liga ng mga Barangay…

A WORLD without God is a world that cannot have peace. Thus intoned Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in reaction to the Paris bombing last week. And he appealed: “Pray for Paris. Pray for the victims and their grieving loved ones….

SELF-RELIANCE FOR PROTECTION MALASIQUI—A police community precinct in Barangay Gatang here that took a little over a year to build strictly from donations of barangay folks will be formally inaugurated next month. P/Supt. Armando Muena, chief of Malasiqui Police Station (MPS), said the new precinct, with a floor area of…