THE Department of Energy (DOE) sent a team to the Sual Power Station last week to assess the restoration of its generating units that went offline. This was confirmed by Engr. Danny Gallangan, officer-in-charge director of Department of Energy (DOE) Luzon Field Office based in Urdaneta City, during the KBP Forum last…
THE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is set to release livelihood starter kits to ten beneficiaries from Pangasinan through the Balik Pinas, Balik Hanapbuhay (BPBH) Program. They are among the first batch of beneficiaries in Region 1 for 2017, in support of stronger reintegration efforts for particularly for distressed Overseas…
10 distressed OFWs get livelihood kits
ALAMINOS CITY—The city government has asked the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to continue and complete the construction of its stalled airport project in order to boost the city’s and province’s tourism industry. Mayor Arthur Celeste wrote the DOTr through Undersecretary Roberto Lim, in charge of airport and seaport projects, urging…
DOTr’s help sought to finish Alaminos airport
CITY Mayor Arthur Celeste is optimistic that tourism in the city will get another boost once a five-star hotel starts construction in the city this year. Celeste said talks are ongoing with the owners of Oriental Hotel (OH) for a private-public partnership. OH owns and operates hotels in eight different…
Soon, a 5-star hotel in Alaminos City
LOCAL ‘5-6’ lenders from the Indian community in Pangasinan have been given a grace period to register their micro-financing business activities. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced a transition period within which illegal foreign money lenders to legalize their resident status and register their lending business with the…
Grace period for ‘5-6’ lenders set
THERE’S a new activity at the one of the Hundred Islands. Try Fishyalan. It is a tour of the 12.43 hectares of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Satellite Center or Multi-species Marine Fish Broodstock Center located in one of 123 islands, the Cariaz Island. It’s an opportunity…
Fishyalan, 100 Isles’ newest attraction
DOST SCHOLARSHIPS — The third year college students, accompanied by their parents and guardians, who qualified to join the Junior Level Science Scholarship (JLSS) program offered by the Department of Science and Technology –Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) sign the formal agreement that will provide them subsidy for tuition fee and…
DOST SCHOLARSHIPS
LINGAYEN—The provincial board has endorsed the passage of a House bill providing for the establishment of Lingayen Gulf Marine Eco-Tourism Park here. In a resolution approved on Jan. 30 authored by Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr., it supported House Bill No. 1020 authored by Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil…
Plans for Lingayen Gulf Marine Eco-Tourism Park pushed
SOME two hundred hectares of onion plantation in Bayambang are again threatened to be wiped out by fungi infestation. According to Ricardo dela Masa, agricultural technologist in Bayambang, many parts of southern Barangays i.e. Manambong Norte, Manambong Parte, San Gabriel and Amancosiling are already affected with the infestation locally resulting…
Bayambang onion farms infested anew
WORLDBEX Services International (WSI) is again expected to break new grounds as it returns with the highly anticipated Philippine World Building and Construction Exposition (WORLDBEX) on March 15 to 19, 2017. Now running on its 22nd installment, Worldbex announces its expansion by welcoming the SMX Convention Center as its newest…




