ALAMINOS CITY– This city’s comprehensive literacy program, putting its literacy rate at 94.36 percent of the population, has been listed among the finalists for the Best Local Government Unit (LGU) Implementer of the National Literacy Program in the component city category. “I believe that education is a right, not a privilege,” said…
AGUILAR–The rising incidence of killings involving hitmen-riding-in-tandem (HRIT) in the province has become alarming. This was the view expressed by Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil, a retired police general who served as director for Pangasinan and Region 1, who said many of his constituents are already apprehensive about security in…
THE Department of Education (DepEd) and 20 private and public schools have pledged support to Dagupan City’s anti-illegal drugs campaign in a forum held at the city hall on Wednesday. “We can never attain quality education if there are barriers,” School Division Superintendent Alma Ruby C. Torio said, identifying illegal…
THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Regional Office based in Dagupan announced it is now offering a special healthcare package that covers case type Z illnesses. Case type Z is any illness as primary condition that is life- or limb-threatening and requires prolonged hospitalization, expensive therapy or other treatments that…
FUTURE CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE—Maintenance work on the developed fairways of the Lingayen Golf course at the Eco-tourism Zone continues while the provincial government awaits the issuance of the environment compliance certificate from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Construction is expected to resume before the year ends. Back to Homepage
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan officials led by Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan expressed confidence that the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) for the proposed 18-hole golf course to be built on the 280-hectare area reserved as eco-tourism zone in western Lingayen will be issued soon.
THE Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund,) has launched an enhanced housing loan program giving as much as 90% of the value of a collateral to the borrower. Huge Olarte, information officer of Pag-IBIG-Dagupan branch, said the new loan program gives members the highest value to its more than eight million members…
DICK IN DAGUPAN—Philippine Red Cross chairman Richard Gordon acknowledges Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez during the signing of memorandum of agreement between the Philippine Red Cross and various hospitals, schools and communications group during his visit in Dagupan on June 30. (Photo by MitzCresencio) Back to Homepage
THE 2013 Million Volunteer Run aiming to attract up to 20 million Red Cross volunteers running at one time around the country in February 2013, was formally launched in Dagupan City last June 30. Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman Richard Gordon led the launching of the project along with Vice Governor…
THE newly-created Anti-Kidnapping Group (AKG) of the Philippine National Police is setting up a satellite office in Dagupan to handle kidnapping incidents in Pangasinan and nearby provinces. Mayor Benjamin S. Lim and Police Senior Supt. Isagani R. Nerez, a lawyer and PNP-AKG director, recently signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) allowing…
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