FARMLANDS WITHOUT NIA IRRIGATION THE San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) ceased its power production completely starting Saturday, July 17. This was confirmed by Engr. Cipriano Yabut, chief of the Agno-Sinocalan and San Fabian River Irrigation System (RIS) under the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), through a phone call on Friday afternoon,…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution urging the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) to grant a grace period or moratorium for poor consumers who cannot pay their three-month dues owing to the present economic hardships brought about by the pandemic by suspending disconnection of their electricity. The resolution authored…
Dagupan SP asks Decorp for moratorium
MEMBERS of the transport group Alliance of United Transport Organization Provincewide (AUTOPRO) – Pangasinan are set to meet this week to finalize their petition for a two-peso increase in jeepney minimum fare. Bernard Tuliao, AUTOPRO-Pangasinan president, said the two-peso fare hike petition to the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB)…
Transpo group eyes P2 increase in jeepney fare
THE construction of an access road in Bolinao town that will help improve the economic development in the area is nearing completion. DPWH First District Engineer Marieta Mendoza said the construction of a 2.036 kilometer access road in Barangay Lucente I in Bolinao town leading to the Piccuban seaport is expected…
Access road in Bolinao opens September
IRRIGATION FOR TWO TOWNS’ FARMLANDS – Farmers River Irrigation System in Brgy. Binday in San Fabian town was inaugurated last Friday signaling a new productive period for farmlands in San Fabian and San Jacinto. NIA Administrator Gen. Ricardo Visaya, Rep. Christopher de Venecia, San Jacinto Mayor De Ver and San Fabian…
IRRIGATION FOR TWO TOWNS’ FARMLANDS
SOME 100 sari-sari store owners in this city received P3,500 each during the soft launching of the Pilipinas Sari Sari Store Community project last July 6 held at the West Central School. Former House Speaker and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano who initiated the project led in the ceremonial turnover…
Cayetano brings Sari Sari Store Community project to Dagupan
“Girl turns ukay-uakay” – Jannah Mae models her creations (Contributed) 17-YEAR-OLD ENTREPRENEUR FROM being an ukay-ukay vendor, a girl from Bayambang now turns her find in a hoard of used clothing to fashion gems. Jannah Mae De Vera, 17, was only 15 years old when she started working in an ukay-ukay store…
Girl turns ukay-ukay clothes to fashion gems
MORE and more households and establishments within the franchised areas of the Dagupan Electric Corporation are already producing their own electric energy using solar panels through net metering installed in Decorp’s network. This was revealed by Augusto Sarmiento, Decorp network control manager, during an inquiry in aid of legislation on the…
Decorp: Use of solar panel during pandemic is beneficial
A NEW 1.35-megawatt hydroelectric power plant will be operating in Sitio Butao, Barangay Guiset Sur in San Manuel town soon after the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), Department of Energy (DOE), Mindoro Grid Corporation (MGC), inaugurated its completion and operation last Thursday, July 8. The event was graced by NIA chief…
New hydroelectric plant inaugurated
DONATION TO PANGASINAN PNP – PNP Chief P/Gen Guillermo Eleazar (3rd from left) receives from Gov. Amado Espino III (2nd from left) various supplies and equipment from the provincial government for the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office during his visit to Lingayen town last June 30. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)




