CONSTRUCTION of the Pangasinan Convention and Multi-Purpose Center (PCMPC) on a 18-hectare land in Barangay Umanday, Bugallon town is proceeding according to timetable. This was the assurance given Gov. Amado Espino III last Sunday, Sept. 5, when he made an ocular inspection to look into the progress of the construction…
NO LIVELIHOOD FOR AMBULANT FISH VENDORS – While workers of consignatories unload newly harvested Dagupan bangus at the Magsaysay Market, ambulant fish vendors find themselves unable to sell it since they have been relocated out of the Magsaysay Market. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE displaced ambulant fish vendors are not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. After a more than two-hour hearing of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committee on markets last Thursday, September 2, on the plight of 72 small-scale ambulant fish vendors in the city who were relocated to…
NO CLEARANCE, PERMITS THE Sangguniang Panlungsod questioned the ongoing backfilling of several fishponds covering a large tract of land by Eternal Gardens along the Jose De Venecia Expressway Extension for the latter’s expansion area, noting that the backfilling activities are not covered by clearance from the SP nor did it…
CLOSED-OPEN-CLOSED – After a few days of resuming its operations last week based on the authority granted by the DOTr in July, the authorized Private Motor Vehicles Inspection Center in Dagupan City shuts down its operations again after DOTr Sec. Arthur Tugade ordered its suspension…again. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
A DAY after some 4,000 motorists, most of them tricycle drivers and operators, staged a protest against the resumption of the mandatory testing of vehicles in Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers (PMVIC) before registration in Urdaneta City, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) ordered the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to suspend…
ENTERPRISING VENDOR — A vendor selling face shields takes advantage of the signage at the gate of the Malimgas Market in Dagupan City warning residents of the policy “NO FACE MASK, NO FACE SHIELD, NO ENTRY” and positions its items for sale in front it. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Team Energy Sual Power Station in Barangay Pangascasan is under lockdown for 15 days after 14 of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. Sual Mayor Liseldo Calugay, through Executive Order No. 32 series of 2021, ordered the lockdown of the power plant from August 26 to September 10, 2021….
PROMOTING LOCAL ECONOMY – A Lingayen resident shops for products produced by local entrepreneurs and featured by the Abig Pangasinan (Heal Pangasinan) mobile exhibit at the Lingayen Municipal Hall. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
SOME 200 young workers in cities of Dagupan and Alaminos recently enlisted as trainees under the Jobstart program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) for a full cycle training to become new productive members of the region’s labor force. The trainees from the two cities are among those…
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