FOOTBRIDGE IS IMPORTANT – Personnel of the City Engineering Office rush the work to raise the height of the footbridge on Arellano Street after the Dagupan city government decided to keep it instead of dismantling it after the elevation of the road and drainage system an adjustment in the area was…
TWO ABANDONED PROJECTS THE Dagupan City government wants the performance bonds of a contractor for two out of four unfinished and abandoned projects of the past Lim administration be confiscated. This was gleaned in a letter to the Sangguniang Panlungsod dated April 1. 2024 by Atty. Aurora Valle in her…
THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region 1 clarified on Friday that there were no recent fish kill incidents in Western Pangasinan, contrary to a recent report in a national newspaper. Mary Ann Salomon, provincial fishery officer of BFAR-Pangasinan, said the agency’s latest monitoring of aquaculture zones…
PANGASINAN recorded a 209.25N percent rice sufficiency level, despite the El Niño phenomenon persisting in the country. The rice sufficiency level equates to a rice production of 830,062.18 metric tons (MT). It means that the farmers in the province produced a surplus production of 433,382.54 MT, which is the average…
A TRICYCLE driver died, while another was in critical condition after the tricycle was rammed by an SUV in Barangay Bued, Calasiao, on Wednesday afternoon, April 10. P/Lt Col. Ferdinand Lopez, officer-in-charge at the Calasiao Police Station, identified the victim as Adrian Landingin, a resident of Sitio Sabangan in Barangay…
By Ahikam Pasion 2 Dagupeños nabbed in Lingayen drug ops TWO Dagupan City residents were arrested in a drug-bust operation by authorities in Lingayen town. Arrested are identified as Jayson Disu Cayabyab, 38, a resident of Barangay Bonuan Gueset, and Wilson Jorda Paras, 28, a resident of Barangay Bonuan…
By Gonzalo Duque NOBODY is disputing the claim of Celia Lim and company that the Mother and Child Hospital was the brainchild of her husband, former Mayor Benjie Lim. The problem is, the late Lim patriarch was not able to accomplish the project nor did this project able to take…
By Leonardo Micua IF the seven majority councilors will still refuse to pass the resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Health for the implementation of the Mother and Child Hospital despite their executive meeting with DOH Regional Director Paula Paz Sydiongco,…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THE days are shorter, I believe, with each day ending without finishing as much task as before. Perhaps it’s the heat, perhaps it’s the burgeoning traffic, the sea of humans on the street, or maybe it’s my body’s declining capacity to cope with the usual…
By Farah G. Decano REMEMBER Mr. Art Samaniego’s FB post that I wrote about last week? Those who shared the controversial post were surprised that it was taken down by FB. Someone or some group of people may have reported the matter as violative of community standards. The reason…
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