CALASAIO—The municipal government of Calasiao is set to redesign its official corporate seal, which was last redesigned in 1989. Mayor Mark Roy Q. Macanlalay issued Executive Order No. 05 on October 8 “creating an ad hoc committee tasked to study, initiate, and supervise the redesigning of the official corporate seal…
URBIZTONDO—The suspension order slapped by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on this town’s mayor, Ernesto Balolong, has been lifted by Malacañang in a decision dated October 2. The three-page order, signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. by authority of the President, said “Charges based on mere suspicion and speculation cannot…
SEVERAL public schools in the towns of Mangatarem and Urbiztondo received 500 chairs made from illegal logs confiscated by the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in the mountainous area of Mangatarem last month. CENRO Officer Raymundo Gayo said 250 school desks were delivered to Mangatarem and another 250…
MALASIQUI–The European Union (EU) is helping finance the completion of the second floor of the municipal hospital here with a P10 million fund. Mayor Armando Domantay said the EU has already approved the financial assistance, which was requested by the local government with endorsement from Governor Amado Espino Jr. through…
CHILDREN”S CONGRESS—Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, Department of Education Regional Director Teresita Velasco, and Dr. Alma Ruby Torio, City Schools Superintendent, cut the ceremonial ribbon for the opening of the third Dagupan Children’s Congress at CSI Stadia from October 2 to 4, attended by some 20,000 children. Also in photo is…
NATIONAL CHILDREN’S MONTH SOME 20,000 children from public and private schools in Dagupan converged at the CSI Stadia for the 2012 Dagupan Children’s Congress sponsored by the Department of Education (DepEd) and the CSI Group of Companies. City Schools Superintendent Alma Ruby Torio welcomed the participants and their parents and…
THE Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) has reminded owners of chainsaws that these need to be registered since their use is regulated under the Chainsaw Act, or Republic Act No. 9175. “Chainsaws, like guns are regulated by law,” said Engr. Raymundo Gayo, officer-in-charge CENRO, during the KBP Forum…
BARANGAY chairmen in Dagupan were briefed by the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) on the city’s quake damage assessment tool project last October 2. The kapitans were oriented on the use of the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment Software (REDAS) and the survey that the city government is…
TRAGIC DEATH—Workers at the first-in-the-world Fish Cemetery located at the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City carry a headless giant green sea turtle that died from dynamite fishing in the waters off San Fabian town last September 23. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano) Back to Homepage
WITH its intensified campaign against illegal fishing, Dagupan City’s River and Coastal Protection Management Office (RCPMO) arrested last week in Barangay Pugaro four fishermen caught using prohibited fishing devices. Arrested on two separate occasions by elements of the RCPMO headed by Manuel L. Gutierrez were Pugaro residents June S. Ferrer,…
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