THE Philippine Health Insurance Inc. (PhilHealth) will increase its member’s premium rate contribution from 2.75 percent December this year to 3 percent starting January next year. In a press briefing Tuesday, Madonna Valdez, Local Health Insurance Office (LHIO) said the P2,400 basic annual premium rate will be P3,600 in year…
SEVERAL buildings, including amenities at Tondaligan Park in Bonuan Gueset built and acquired during the past city administration will soon be tapped for revenue generation by the administration of Mayor Brian Lim if a series of ordinances proposed by the City Treasurer’s Office is passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP)….
THE “Negosyo Serbisyo sa Barangay” program trained 983 individuals from 70 barangays in the nine towns by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office on how to do business. DTI-Pangasinan Director Natalia Dalaten said the program trains and assists communities to engage in business. The Burgos trainees were…
CALESA JOYRIDE -– Residents and visitors riding calesas in Dagupan City at night get a thrill as they pass through the brightly colored lit channel that formed on Quintos Bridge. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Dagupan City Health Office (CHO) assured residents and visitors that the preparation of food along the city’s Food Strip along Zamora Street has passed sanitation standards imposed by it. This was stressed after the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office recorded 42 deaths out of 8, 684 cases of acute gastroenteritis…
AGRICULTURE Secretary William Dar said there is no new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Pangasinan. Dar said the feedback he gets is there is no new outbreak “but the threat of the African swine fever remains that’s why we have to elevate our quarantine system.” Dar, who was…
THE sweet scent of sampaguita flowers is making residents of Barangay Baritao in Manaoag smiling because it has become a source of livelihood. Baritao, located about 2.5 kilometers southwest of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag, has many residents who depend on sampaguita growing and lei making…
SOME 100 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) presently detained at District Jail of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan City have been earning from sale and repair of their crafted Christmas decors since September this year. In an interview Tuesday, jail officer Janice Wackisan of BJMP…
WHAT LAWS? — A vendor sells Christmas decors along the sidewalk in Dagupan unmindful of two laws – selling on a sidewalk smoking a cigarette in a public place. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
MAGNA CARTA OF YOUNG FARMERS FOURTH District Rep. Christopher De Venecia’s House bill, Magna Carta of Young Farmers, recently received the endorsement of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) for its immediate passage. The bill which aims to protect and promote the well-being of young farmers, aged 15 to 35,…
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