TAGUMBAW POISONING SAN CARLOS CITY—A warning to parents: Tell your children not to eat tagumbaw (jathropa) seeds. Five children were brought last week to the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) here after they were poisoned for eating seeds of a jathropa plant, called tagumbaw in Pangasinan and is known to local…
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) launched last Thursday the modified conditional cash transfer (MCCT) program with some 323 families as beneficiaries. Iryn Cubangbang, information officer of DSWD region one, explained that while the MCCT is generally part of the conditional cash transfer program or the Pantawid Pamilyang…
TRICYCLE drivers and operators who went to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) regular session last Monday went home in frustration after the council failed to convene due to lack of quorum. Only the presiding officer, Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, and Councilor Jeslito Seen were present and answered the roll call conducted…
TSUNAMI’S POTENTIAL FOR CORRUPTION—This is the present state of the vaunted Tsunani Hill in Pugaro Island that the Lim administration is making the city government spend P10-M on. Finally aware of the plan, residents are wondering why they will be made to run from their homes (see background) towards the…
THE DAGUPAN City government is set to transfer some 300 pupils from a school building in Poblacion Oeste in Dagupan City to a three-storey school building inside the Engineering Compound, expected to be completed first week of February this year. The new school building situated inside the envisioned integrated school…
ALAMINOS CITY—She sent out an SOS on Facebook (FB) and people heard it. Lalane Fontanilla Balcorta, a 32-year old native of this city working as a domestic helper in Amman, Jordan, put a message last January 21 in the FB account “Taga Alaminos Pangasinan Ka Kung…” calling for help and…
WANTED: Postman for Binmaley Even in this internet age, snail-mail and the postman have yet to become obsolete. And the government’s Postal Office in this town is badly in need of a postman to deliver mail and packages to households after two of its postmen retired in October last year….
FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS A “Unity Walk” and prayer rally will be held at the City Plaza in Dagupan City on February 8 to promote the Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) 2013 campaign of the Philippines National Police. Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, city police chief, said they are expecting the participation of…
EVEN as the legality of the MC Adore sale has yet to be decided with finality by the court, the administration of Mayor Benjamin Lim is already assuring vendors in the area of a relocation site for their businesses. City Administrator Vlad Mata announced that on or before February 7,…
THE now perennially-flooded A.B. Fernandez Avenue, Dagupan City’s main thoroughfare, is set for upgrade this year and the road will be raised beyond the flood level. Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia worked for the inclusion of A.B. Fernandez Avenue as one of the priorities of the Department of Public…
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