TWO solar power plants worth US$503-million will rise in Dasol and Infanta towns in Pangasinan following the signing of Joint Development Agreement among three parties on May 3 at the Urduja House in Lingayen. The agreement was sealed after CSFirst Green Agri-Industrial Development Inc., URIT Limited Philippines Corporation and China…
THE town of Villasis, known for its eggplant industry, is facing serious threat. Its eggplant yield is down by 40% today. Data from the Villasis Municipal Agriculture Office shows the town has an average eggplant yield of 25 tons per hectare. However, recent harvests have placed average eggplant yield to…
Villasis eggplant yield down 40% due to intense heat
ABOUT P9.7-million worth of marijuana plants were uprooted and burned by authorities recently in three different marijuana eradication operations in Pangasinan, La Union and Ilocos Sur. Pangasinan police authorities conducted Coplan ‘Gapas’ on April 14 at a mountainous area in Barangay Tobuan, Labrador town and uprooted 140 fully grown marijuana…
P9.7-M marijuana uprooted in Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur
UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen Fernandez thanked President BBM for sending the ‘Kadiwa ng Pangulo para sa Manggagawa” Caravan to Dagupan City and gave residents the opportunity to buy cheap but fresh products produced by farmers, fisherfolk and entrepreneurs in micro, small at medium enterprises (MSMEs). There were sellers from the Department…
‘KADIWA NG PANGULO’ WAS IN DAGUPAN!
VP SARA AT THE KANEN FESTIVAL — Vice President Sara Duterte graces the 1st Kanen Festival in Urbiztondo town late afternoon last April 29. She is joined by Second District Rep. Mark Cojuangco. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
VP SARA AT THE KANEN FESTIVAL
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! APRIL 30 – (Dagupan City) Amalia Dela Reyna, Annaliza Mendoza; (Calasiao) Arthur De Vera MAY 07 – (Dagupan City) Rowena Fernandez, Arthur Fernandez; (Calasiao) Minda de Guzman MAY 10 – (Dagupan City) Rhian Mae Zulueta; (Calasiao) Aristotle de Vera MAY 11 – (Dagupan City) Myrlin Soy Spencer; (Calasiao)…
Birthdays/Anniversaries May 7 – 13, 2023
THAT Pangasinan is seeing an unprecedented long list of planned projects over the next two years is worthy of note, however, the mind-boggling plan that accompanied it that was already recently realized is with the approval of the provincial government’s application for a P6.8 billion credit line with the Land…
Full accountability, transparency in P6.8-billlion Land Bank loan
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE conflicting views of the Department of Budget and Management and the Department of Interior and Local Government on the “rectifying” ordinance of the 7 epaLiFes must not be left unresolved very long. If left unresolved, the city government and its residents and the members of the…
Conflicting legal views: DILG vs. DBM
By Leonardo Micua WHILE Pangasinan sizzles with a heat index of 42 to 46 degrees celsius, among the highest if not the highest in the entire country, it is not good to hear that most, if not all, of the provincial board members, plus some department heads and special…
The Board Members’ “secret” trip to USA
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo MIRA was the kid, who, along with another nephew, Nico, experimented with the matches and burned the wooden floor in one of the bedrooms. The smoke escaped through the small space of the door, so I knocked. It was all quiet so I took the…




