SUMMER FRUIT— Glaire Rabanera sells watermelon (Diana variety) harvested from the family farm in Alaminos City. Her father, Renato Rabanera is known as the watermelon king of Pangasinan. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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LOWEST bids alone for infrastructure projects in the city will no longer be the criteria for qualification and selection of bids. The word evaluation of a bid by “responsive” company bidding has been added. According to City Budget Officer Luz de Guzman, chairperson of Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) this is…
Lowest, responsive bidder will win infra awards, say
LINGAYEN – Member agencies and institutions of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (PDRRM) Council recently convened to address the recurring problem of fishermen failing to return from the sea. PDRRM officer Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, told the council meeting held on March 2 that solutions are needed to minimize…
PDRRMC adopts measures to keep fishermen safe
INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYMENT THE travails of the education sector, particularly, the increasing number of job mismatches among new graduates, are finally being addressed by the Pangasinan Alliance of Private Technical and Vocational Schools (PAPTVS). To end this problem, the alliance of private techvoc schools in the province has drafted…
TechVoc schools to help end job-mismatches
LINGAYEN– Officials of Pangasinan are not easily swayed to accept the explanation of Monsanto Philippines, a multinational seed company, over the failed harvests of corn farmers last planting season who pointed to the hybrid seed Dekalb 6999S as the culprit that caused Poor Grain Fill (PGF). Representatives of Monsanto, the…
Blame weather on poor corn harvest – Monsanto
SUAL – The operators of fish cages in Sual are seeing more profitable days ahead as the demand for bangus continues to increase. This was conveyed by Flora Guanzon, Sual’s municipal agriculture officer (MAO) in a PUNCH interview as she confirmed that a noticeable increase in demand for bangus has…
Sual bangus producers boost production to meet high demand
LINGAYEN—Holders of fishery lease agreements in Region 1 that used to suffer from low fish production can finally expect to boost their yield with the help of a private company. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region 1 Director Nestor Domenden said Feedmix will pursue a contract-growing scheme in the…
Feedmix signs up FLA recipients for contract-growing
TAMANG TIMBANG, PRESYO AT SUKLI THE Dagupan City government has issued a stern warning to vendors who do not comply with the Revised Market Code, particularly in the use of tampered weighing scales. To guide and protect the buying public against malpractices of vendors, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez has launched the ‘Tamang…
City Hall goes after cheating vendors
THE managements of Victory Liner and Five Star have agreed in principle to allow the buses of another bus company, Solid North, to use an interior road behind the terminals of the three to avoid obstructing traffic along Perez Boulevard in Dagupan City as provided in a city ordinance. This was…
Bus companies agree to patch differences
OVERSEAS Filipino Workers (OFWs), businessmen and vacationing families overseas now have a convenient way of going to their foreign destinations without the hassle of going to Metro Manila. Victory Liner Inc. (VLI), one of the biggest bus companies that operates in Pangasinan, Luzon, starts the Premiere Point-to-Point bus services from…
