SAN NICOLAS – The livelihood assistance provided by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has improved the lives of ambulant vendors from this town. Fifty mobile vendors in San Nicolas received livelihood carts worth P750, 000 under the Negosyo sa Kariton (Negokart) project of the labor agency. DOLE-1 Regional…

THE Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES), an employment bridging program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has helped disadvantaged youth here to earn income while studying. Regional Director Grace Ursua of DOLE in the Ilocos said the SPES aims to assist poor but deserving students…

CALASIAO- The Department of Foreign Affairs-Regional Consular Office (DFA-RCO) has implemented the online passport application and appointment system effective last Friday, June 24. In a statement, Jennifer Catherine Demesa, officer-in-charge of RCO Calasiao, said the online appointment system will now be assured of their applications being processed. With the new…

THE local government units of Dagupan City, Sta. Barbara, Bayambang and Mangaldan availed of the e-AlkanSSSya project of the Social Security System (SSS) for contractual employees of the municipal and city government. Marilyn Dioquino, accounts monitoring section of SSS Dagupan branch, told the KBP Forum, that discussions are ongoing with…

ROSALES – Some 2,300 farmers and agricultural workers in Pangasinan received their certificates for completing their course on sustainable swine production during the graduation ceremonies of the School-On-the-Air (SOA) program held here, Friday. Rogelio Evangelista, center director of the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center (ATI-RTC) in Region 1, said “Sanayang…

DAGUPAN’S NEVER-ENDING OPERATIONS WHILE some 68 illegal fish pens here were recently demolished by the Task Force Bantay Ilog (TFBI), it appears the complete clearing of the rivers of illegal pens still cannot be achieved as mandated by the city ordinance. Maximo Solis operations leader, confirmed this in an interview…

ALAMINOS CITY—The world-famous Hundred Islands National park again played host to foreign tourists on board a MS Caledonian Sky, a luxury cruise ship that sailed from Australia two weeks ago. Solomon Tablang, head of the City Tourism Office, told The PUNCH it’s the third visit of the ship, this time…

HERE’S a bit of good news for the province’s farmers! The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Pangasinan office is set to implement this year a total of P416-million worth of irrigation projects. Now the bad news. Engr. Teodoro Paragas, provincial irrigation management office head of the NIA-Project Irrigation Management Office, told…

LINGAYEN–More than 180,000 hectares of farmland in Pangasinan will be planted with rice in this year’s planting season which already started this month. According to Dalisay Moya, officer-in-charge at the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, at least 40 percent of the areas set to be planted, are rainfed. Moya said…

DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) started distributing seedlings to farmers in preparation for the planting season in Region 1. DA-Region 1 Director Valentino Perdido said the distributions of high breed and certified seeds for the municipalities with budget allocation for seedlings in Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. DA…