MARKET STALLHOLDERS’ UNPAID RENTALS DAGUPAN City’s Sangguniang Panlungsod is set to pass an ordinance waiving penalties of market rental fees in public markets imposed on stallholders whose businesses were affected during the extreme flooding in the city caused by days of monsoon rains and Typhoon “Ompong” from July to early…
RIMC TRAINING CENTER — Rep. Pia Cayetano and Health Sec. Francisco Duque do the honors in inaugurating the Region1 Medical Center’s Training and Eye Center Bldg. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
TAGUIG Rep. Pia Cayetano lauded the Region I Medical Center for its many state-of-the art health facilities found in many modern hospitals in the world. Cayetano, who is running for senator in next year’s election, was among the guests of honor and speaker during R1MC’s new five-storey Training and Eye Center Building. The…
THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) regional office said five coastal areas in Pangasinan remain red tide-free based on the latest laboratory analyses conducted on Oct. 12. Shellfish Bulletin No. 26 reported that based on the results of the laboratory analyses “shrimps, crabs and seashells like mussels and…
THE increasing supply of rice in Pangasinan is finally seeing a downward trend in the price of rice in retail stores. From the continuous dispersal operations of National Food Authority (NFA), the NFA’s outside market stores in barangays sell rice at P27 per kilo while P32 a kilo in all…
NO BANGUS SHORTAGE — Two consignacion workers rush to sort out and classify the sizes of newly-harvested milkfish (bangus) that arrived at the Magsaysay Fish Market in Dagupan City (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE owners and operators of demolished illegal fish pens and other structures in Dagupan City received P1.2 million worth of materials for the construction of fish cages as their alternative legitimate livelihood. The support was provided by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). The 521 recipients from Barangays Lucao…
ALAMINOS CITY— The city government is offering huge discounts to Pangasinan residents when they visit the Hundred Islands. Residents can enjoy a 50 percent discount in the registration and environmental fees and another 20 percent discount on the use of island facilities run by the city government, effective Oct. 8. The…
AFTER the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) stallholders at the Malimgas Public Market were granted a 15-day rental holiday to help make up for the losses incurred from the recent floods on Oct. 8, the latter again asks for more financial concession from the city government. The stallholders also want the…
IN his visit to Laoac town, Agriculture Sec. Manny Piñol announced that reforms will be implemented in the rice market to prevent the private rice players from exploiting the rice supply situation. Sec. Piñol announced in Laoac, that starting this month, he had directed the rice traders to identify or…
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