THE two Department of Health (DOH) hospitals in Pangasinan, Region 1 Medical Center, and Conrado F. Estrella Regional Trauma and Medical Center (FERTMC), joined the simultaneous launching of the “Wellness Movement Program”, that seeks to improve the mental health and well-being of health care workers (HCW) in the workplace. The…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) 216 barangays in 20 towns flooded in Pangasinan THERE were 216 barangays in 20 towns and cities in Pangasinan that were affected by flood spawned by monsoon rains triggered by Typhoon Egay. This was based on the monitoring of the Provincial Risk Reduction…
By Leonardo Micua “ISANG text message lang, hindi dalawa, nandiyan na siya.” This was how Mayor Belen Fernandez described how Senator Imee Marcos quickly responded to the city’s call for help. According to Mayor Belen, with just one text message, Manang Imee came to Dagupan in one of its…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HE was, an occasional intruder in her thoughts. Whatever happened to him? She found him, in the dragnet of the web, as always, the community of the found, where the real challenge is anonymity. He looked older than she anticipated, different from what she imagined,…
By Farah G. Decano THE tension in the West Philippine Sea is escalating once again. Lately, China has repeatedly fired water cannons at a Philippine vessel that tried to replenish the resources of the BRP docked at the Ayungin Shoal. The present reaction of the international community is very…
By Eva C. Visperas WHILE on sickbed for one week at the height of super typhoon ‘Egay’, I got the chance to browse news online websites and one caught my attention: the Green Canopy project of the provincial government of Pangasinan. It broke my heart the past recent years…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BACK to sports. The subject of this piece is all about boxing. Firstly, anent the failure of our Fil-Am fighter, the former four-division world champion Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire to recapture the World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight diadem held last July 30 at T-Mobile…
By Rex Catubig I feel trapped in a time warp. While I’m fully aware of my advanced age that osteoarthritis has proclaimed and confirmed unabashedly, I realize that I have not really fully grasped the inevitability of age, the accretion in years, and the imminence of death. My theater…
URBAN FARM IN THE CITY — A visitor at the FishTech Philippines (urban farm in Dagupan City owned by former BFAR Research Center Chief Westly Rosario, feeds red tilapia under a “fish condominium” (stacked drums) where fish are cultured in an aquaponics system planted with kangkong. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) expressed alarm over reported farm trials of African Swine Fever (ASF) vaccines in Pangasinan by the Department of Agriculture or the Bureau of Animal Industry without the knowledge of the provincial veterinarian as well as members of the livestock industry. Engr. Rosendo So, SINAG…
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