LINGAYEN – Here’s a bit of good news for the province’s small entrepreneurs in livestock and fisheries industry. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has authorized Gov. Amado I. Espino III to begin the process that will jumpstart the implementation of the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) in the province. It identified the…

LINGAYEN – The initial career fair of the Pangasinan Employment Services Office (PESO) held last week at the PESO Building, Capitol Compound offered some 2,500 domestic and overseas jobs. PESO manager Alex Ferrer said that the event was one of the seven scheduled employment events for Pangasinense jobseekers tasked by…

LINGAYEN – A Laguna firm where 33 students of the Pangasinan State University (PSU) were allegedly employed as ‘regular workers’ for their supposed On-the-Job Training (OJT) showed sets of evidence that pointed to irregularities in the implementation of PSU’s OJT program. This was bared during the SP inquiry led by…

IF you are you a worker in crisis, or in emergency situation, help is just one call away. The Department of Labor and Employment-Regional Office I launched its 24/7 Hotline Call Services on September 2. DOLE-RO I OIC-Regional Director Honorina Baga said the hotline call services have have ten mobile…

ENDING ENDO THE Department of Labor and Employment-Regional Office I began implementing its Regional Action Plan to carry out the marching order of Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III to eliminate “endo”. “Endo” or “5-5-5” is a work arrangement whereby workers are hired for only about five months without security…

LINGAYEN – The Pangasinan Employment Services Office (PESO) held its “Matuto sa Eksperto” entrepreneurial seminar last August 26 at the PESO Building, Capitol Compound here. PESO manager Alex Ferrer said the seminar sought to enhance skills of micro, small and medium enterprise managers. Resource speakers were two established Pangasinense proprietors:…

LINGAYEN – The provincial government will soon switch to the electronic payment and collection facility (EPCF) system of the Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG Fund for faster and safer payment of premium contributions and loan amortizations of its employees. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has authorized the enrolment of the provincial…

LINGAYEN – The Lingayen District Hospital (LDH) and Asingan Community Hospital (ACH) will soon be upgrade, from the current 40 and 15 to the bigger 75 and 25 bed occupancy respectively. In separate reports for the last two years, LDH has been admitting a daily average of 80 patients while…

FISH growers in Sitio Talaib in Calmay and Sitio Tocok in Lucao denied they suffered a fish kill at the height of the monsoon rains that inundated many parts of the city as published on August 20 in a national daily. In an interview, fishermen Roland Vinoya and Rosemarie Gonzales, from Talaib, Calmay; and Ricardo Jose and Nelia Perez, from…

ONLY PANGASINAN SHOWS POSITIVE GROWTH LINGAYEN— All the provinces in the region, except Pangasinan, posted lower fish production. Consequently, fish production in Region 1 declined by 3.7 percent in first quarter this year, according to a report from the Philippine Statistics Authority (Regional Statistical Services Office 1). The report given…