AFTER DAGUPAN BANGUS AFTER a Dagupan Certified Bangus, watch out for Dagupan Certified Tahong! Since the city’s rivers are deemed free from possible red tide infection, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has recommended a full-scale production of tahong (mussels) culture. Westly Rosario, chief of BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries…

FISHING INDUSTRY THREATENED DASOL—The town’s mayor is seeking help of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to regulate the loading of minerals from neighboring town of Infanta that threatens Dasol’s fishing industry. Mayor Noel Nacar said in a forum attended by BFAR Director Asis Perez that while the…

THE National Food Authority (NFA) has a buffer stock of at least 169, 452 bags of rice in time for the lean months that will start July 1, the normal start of the rainy season. Sulpicio Terrado, Economist III of the NFA branch in Western Pangasinan, said this is close to the…

LOCAL and overseas job opportunities are up for grabs at three job fairs in Pangasinan on June 12 being organized by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Regional Office 1. DOLE Regional Director Grace Ursua said the job fairs will be conducted at Nepo Mall in Dagupan City, SM City Rosales in Rosales…

ANOTHER POTENTIAL USE? BOLINAO—After tapping chicken and pig manure for renewable energy, an Italian company is eyeing bangus (milkfish) wastes to be converted into biogas. Alaminos City Mayor Arthur Celeste said in a forum here Tuesday about proper management of fish pens and fish cages for sustainable bangus industry in western…

ALAMINOS CITY— The world-famous Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) has arrived as a major tourist destination. It is now a regular destination for foreign cruise programs. Last week, for the seventh time, another foreign cruise ship docked here and its passengers and crew toured the Islands. MS Caledonian Sky, a…

TRANSMISSION service provider and power grid operator NGCP recently turned-over a two-classroom building in Cablong Elementary School in Sta. Barbara. Completed just in time for the opening of classes in June, the classrooms will accommodate two sections of kindergarten and Grade 6. Another one-classroom building in Balingeo Elementary School, Sta….

URDANETA CITY—Amid complaints from taxpayers about difficulties encountered with the electronic filing and paying online system (EFPS) and electronic filing of Bureau of Internal Revenue forms (EFBF), the Revenue District Office 6 (RDO6) here said the situation is not an excuse not to pay taxes due on time. Bernadette Mangaoang,…

URDANETA CITY— Revenue District Office 6 (RDO6) reported a collection of PhP395, 299, 155, the highest in the province, and second highest in Region 1, surpassing its collection last year over the same period (January-April) by 14.86%. Lawyer Nasrollah Conding, RDO6 district officer, said the increase in their collection is…