LINGAYEN– The vice mayor of Mapandan town has been charged for oppression, misconduct in office, gross negligence, dereliction of duty, and abuse of authority, for allegedly objecting to pay a private supplier. In her complaint before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan board received last July 22, businesswoman Fe Reyes, claimed that Vice…
LINGAYEN– The provincial government through the Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Office will soon avail of the Joint Catastrophe Risk Insurance Pilot Program for local government units (LGUs). The Sangguniang Panlalawigan acted on but deferred the approval of the resolution authorizing the payment of the annual insurance premium of…
URDANETA CITY—Leave it to the Urdaneta City Police Station (UCPS) to adopt a new tact to discourage the use of illegal drugs in the community. They entice the community to dance the zumba and join the taebo exercise regularly with its personnel during scheduled symposiums not only on illegal drugs…
LINGAYEN—The “Pacific Partnership 2015” that saw the United States (US) Navy and the Philippine Navy (PN) team up for their joint medical mission and disaster preparedness seminar sailed off last week. Last August 5-6, a team from the Provincial Health Office (PHO), Provincial Health officer, Dr. Anna De Guzman, joined…
4Ps BENEFICIARIES ASSURED A TOP official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) confirmed that of the 123,923 family beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pampamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Pangasinan, not a single one is in danger of being purged from the list. This assurance was given by DSWD…
THE Commission on Election’s campaign for biometric registration, “No Bio, No Boto,” started simultaneously last August 6 in all major shopping malls in Pangasinan. Participating in the program as satellite registration sites are all malls of CSI Group of Companies, SM City Rosales and Robinson’s Place Calasiao. Nine malls of the CSI…
LINGAYEN– The provincial government of Pangasinan is considering to own and operate its own radio station. Last week, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) discussed at length the resolution granting Governor Amado Espino Jr. the authority to negotiate with the Philippine Broadcasting Service- Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) and the National Telecommunications Commission…
THE Department of Health thru the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) — its main arm in the province — will launch tomorrow, August 10 its historic “High Impact Five” program to fully complement and support DoH regional offices to achieve Universal Health Care/Millennium Development Goals. Dr. Joseph Roland O. Mejia,…
SAN FERNANDO CITY–The proposal to realign the third phase of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx) from Urdaneta City to Rosario, La Union was evidently rejected by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) by proceeding with the construction based on the original plan. According to Florelyn Fernandez, Engineer III of the…
PARTISAN POLITICS THE worsening level of political commentaries aired on radio by some local radio personalities, exchanging threats of violence, prompted Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. to go public with his appeal for sobriety. “Avoid fanning the fire of rabid partisanship that could lead to violence and other untoward incidents,”…
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