DAGUPAN’S Sangguniang Panlungsod has began conducting public hearings on two draft fiscal ordinances: Nos. 0-593 (Amending the Schedule of Fair Market Value of real properties in the city of Dagupan for the year 2004 and thereafter), and 0-594 (Proposed Revenue Code of the City of Dagupan). However, in both public…
DREAM CAKE — Two kids take a closer look at one of the colorful cakes entered in the SM City Rosales Cake Art Competition held last February 26. (SMCity)
DREAM CAKE
THE rehabilitation of the Tondaligan Park, once Dagupan City’s pride for its long stretch of the Blue Beach coastline, is being rushed to regain its status as one of the major tourist destinations in Pangasinan. Its initial salvo in promoting it following its ongoing rehabilitation was the holding of the two-day…
Sports tourism seen in new Tondaligan Park
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) again surpassed its collection target of P11 billion by collecting P11.9 billion, adding that they are, in fact, surpassing their targets every year. This trend, Lee Caday, chief of the client support division of BIR Region 1, said will enable the regional office to…
BIR Region 1 surpasses last year’s collection
LINGAYEN- – -National Housing Authority (NHA) General Manager Marcelino P. Escalada, Jr. commended the provincial government for its implementation of the 2nd phase of the Maniboc socialized housing for employees/teachers and Aplaya West Resettlement Project intended to provide shelter for the ‘poorest of the poor.’ Escalada, who visited the two…
Pangasinan housing projects on track
CLUP APPROVAL STILL PENDING DAGUPAN City’s plan to move fast forward in its development continues to be stymied in the absence of an approval of its submitted Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) by the National Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (NHLURB). Mayor Belen Fernandez expressed her own frustration at…
Dagupan’s economic plan stymied
TAYUG’S BEAUTIES AND SUNFLOWERS — The candidates vying for the Binibining Tayug 2017 take a break at the Allied Botanical Corporation’s sunflower farm in Tayug. The farm hosts the only Sunflower Maze in the Philippines. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TAYUG’S BEAUTIES AND SUNFLOWERS
TILAPIA FINGERLINGS DISPERSAL LINGAYEN– The province can expect further increase in the production of tilapia after the recent seeding of some 300,000 tilapia fingerlings at the mouth of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) re-regulating pond in San Roque, San Manuel town. The annual dispersal program since 2007 has already increased volume…
Capitol sees higher production ahead
THE Dagupan City Veterinary Office seized 174 kilos of chicken and 38 kilos of pork at the Centro Mart Market in Dagupan at dawn on February 17. coordination with the National Meat and Inspection Service (NMIC). City Veterinarian Dr. Michael Maramba said the uncertified chicken meat were discovered in routine…
City vet seizes 174 kilos of ‘botcha’ chicken
PHINMA EYES 2023 LINGAYEN–Leaders of Save Sual Movement (SSM) hailed the decision of Phinma Energy Corp. to defer a planned 900-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Sual town due to an oversupply of coal projects. Phinma had announced it is considering constructing the coal plant in 2023 to 2025 because of its…




