READY BUT NO TAKERS – A nurse from the City Health Office assigned to help manage the prepared evacuation center at the People’s Astrodome, is by her lone self, preparing a status report after TC Karding had exited and no evacuees were taken to the center. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Department of Health (DOH) has allotted P150 million for the construction and establishment of a Level 1 Mother and Child Care Hospital in Dagupan City under the Universal Health Care Program (UHCP). Speaking before the Sangguniang Panlungsod, Dr. Eric Sibayan of DOH said it is in addition to the…
THE Department of Education (DepEd) reminded local government units (LGU) that public schools in their areas should only be used as an ‘immediate’ evacuation site, and may only be used as evacuation for a period not exceeding 15 days. DepEd Order No. 37 series of 2022, issued by Vice President…
DANGEROUS DRYING OF PALAY – A farmer’s daughter in Aguilar town stops sweeping dried palay on the Pangasinan-Tarlac highway to acknowledge the passing of a group riding a kuliglig. While the practice of drying palay on highways is banned, local governments have turned a blind eye to the farmers’ insistence to use the highway in spite…
THE Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) reminded drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs) – jeepneys and buses – to secure new fare matrix on authorized fare increases before charging the new fares set to be implemented on Monday, October 3. In a Facebook post Tuesday, September 27, the…
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Region 1 is still committed to achieve zero backlog in resolving land reform cases filed before it. In a press conference, Atty. Glaize Bernadeth Tadeo, the legal chief of DAR Region I, echoed the commitment as she clarified that minor issues such as transfer…
AN agricultural trading post, commonly known as a Bagsakan Center, will soon rise in Barangay Tomana West in Rosales town in partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA). This plan was reached during a recent discussion among Rosales Mayor Mayor Liam Cezar, ABONO Partylist Representative Robert ‘Eskimo’ Estrella Jr., and…
By Gonzalo Duque WHEN I attended a birthday party of Chito Samson, one of our best friends and a cumpadre, at the Breadhouse on JDV Highway, the hot conversation of one group among his well-wishers was the problems of Dagupan, zeroing on the recurring floods and—hold your breath —Pamana, the…
By Leonardo Micua PANGASINAN and Dagupan City may have been spared by the wrath of Typhoon “Karding”, but our neighboring provinces in Central Luzon up to Calabarzon were not. An example is Nueva Ecija, the undisputed rice granary of the Philippines and today’s largest rice producer in PH, with Isabela…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SEPTEMBER is associated with the number seven. I remember September with the blooming of three shades of blue purple flowers: aster, forget-me-not and morning glory. I remember an IVLP General Assembly where Prof. Jose David Lapuz stood up to chastise the credibility of a report,…
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