ASF-RECOVERY PROGRAM SOME 135 backyard hog raisers in Eastern Pangasinan received sentinel pigs and feeds from the Department of Agriculture and the provincial government under the government’s African Swine Fever (ASF) recovery program Provincial Veterinarian Jovito Tabarejos said the ASF-affected beneficiaries are from the towns of San Quintin, Tayug, Natividad,…
(PUNCHPHOTO BY WILLIE LOMIBAO) THE construction of the Pangasinan side of the 54-kilometer Daang Kalikasan (from Mangatarem town in Pangasinan to Sta. Cruz town in Zambales) is already complete while the work to complete the Zambales side still ongoing. This was bared by Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, then congressman of…
AGRICULTURE Secretary William Dar inaugurated on Feb. 3 two small water irrigation projects (SWIPs) in Balungao for the benefit of 120 farmer-members. The projects are the Cabaroan and Poblacion irrigation projects worth P13-million and P23.8-million respectively to benefit members of Cabaroan Farmers’ Association (FA) and Poblacion Irrigators’ Association respectively. Aside…
CUSTOMERS of the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) and other power distributors in Pangasinan will see a higher bill for their consumption in Janauary. According to Atty. Randy Castilan, Decorp spokesperson, the increase in billing is due to P0.8209-centavo increase in generation charge representing higher cost of diesel. For households consuming…
TO BOOST FISHERFOLK’S LIVELIHOOD THE Lingayen government will soon start installing concrete artificial reefs along the seabed of the town to create a fish sanctuary that will benefit the town’s fisherfolk. At the Network Briefing News of the Philippine Information Agency on January 31, Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil said the implementation…
CHRISTMAS BARATILLO ENDS – Stall owners that joined the baratillo organized by the Dagupan City government and occupied the sidewalk in front of the CSI Market Square on AB. Fernandez Avenue for more than 60 days (in violation of the DILG directive to clear roads and sidewalks) finally dismantle their tents when their contracts expired…
NO EXCLUSIVITY RESERVED FOR LOCALS THE head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) district office in Lingayen categorically denied reports by anonymous complainants that corruption involving her personnel is rampant and unchecked. Aileen Peteros, head of the LTO Lingayen district office asked the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) not to assume the…
ANOTHER unique golden bangus was turned over on Jan. 20 to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-National Integrated Fisheries and Technology Development Center (BFAR-NIFTDC) in Dagupan City. The golden bangus came from a fish cage in the coastal area in Sto. Tomas, La Union. It was among the 30…
WHY WAIT FOR SUMMER? — A watermelon vendor along the Binmaley-Dagupan highway show off the favorite summer fruit that are already made available to residents. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE head of a transport group in Pangasinan says the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) “No vaccination, No ride” policy is difficult and practically impossible to implement properly particularly by jeepney drivers in Pangasinan. This was the sentiment of Bernard Tuliao, president of the Alliance of United Transport Organization Provincewide (AUTOPRO-…
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