AFTER the Volunteers for Crime and Corruption lambasted the provincial police for the deteriorating peace and order in the province, the latter did not let the criticism pass without any response. P/Inspector Ryan Manongdo, police information officer of Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) O said the Pangasinan police cannot accept…
CONTRA-BULLYING DETERMINED to stop bulling in schools, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez formed the first school organization to monitor and act on bullying incidents in the school. The mayor inducted members of the Bonuan Boquig National High School (BBNHS) Child Protection Committee last Thursday coinciding with the launching of the anti-bullying…
Body formed to uphold students’ rights
KNOWN in the province of Pangasinan as the small, quiet but progressive town, Sto. Tomas and its hardworking residents were recently cited as the only certified drug-free town in the country. The town also emerged as number one in peace and order rating with no major criminality that made it…
Sto. Tomas, certified drug-free town
PAPERLESS PAYROLL—-Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. (center) receives his automated teller machine (ATM) card from Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP)-Lingayen Branch Manager Liza Melendez during the ceremonial withdrawal of employees’ salaries and benefits at the ATM facility located at the Finance Building inside the Capitol Complex in Lingayen last…
PAPERLESS PAYROLL
LINGAYEN– The provincial government of Pangasinan has taken the first stop towards a paperless management system with the launching of its automated teller machine (ATM)-supported payroll system. Last Monday, Gov. Amado Espino Jr. led the inauguration of the ATM use for the withdrawals of the provincial employees’ respective salaries. “All…
Capitol bats for ‘paperless’ salary system
FOR TEACHERS’ LIVABLE SALARIES LINGAYEN—The Alliance of Concern Teachers (ACT) Party list reiterated its call to the government to increase the salary of teachers following the shooting incident in the Pangasinan National High School (PNHS) last September 1 allegedly triggered by unpaid loans by the teachers. The group led by…
ACT Party-list reiterates call
SOME 460 secondary teachers and personnel of the Dagupan City Division of Schools, Department of Education, were subjected to drug tests last August 27-28. The tests, conducted in conjunction with DepEd’s “Safe and Healthy and Drug-Free Schools and Workplaces” campaign, were conducted by the physicians and medical staff of the…
DepEd personnel, teachers undergo drug tests
THERE will be no more cutting of full grown trees anywhere, not along the highway, not anywhere. This is the new directive from the The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to its field offices, particularly in Pangasinan. Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) Pangasinan This was confirmed…
DENR: Enough tree-cutting, plant more
THE first meeting of the Region 1 Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) last week presided by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, as the new RPOC chairperson, was an occasion for its members to set new parameters for the council’s agenda. “The defining moment for us is when our RPOC communicates…
Archbishop lists more concerns for RPOC
LINGAYEN– After five months of battling legal issues defending itself, an online English tutorial center whose operations were mistakenly suspected to be involved in human trafficking and cyber-sex operations, has finally been able to resume its normal operations. It was made possible by the return of the computers and other…




