THIRTY-THREE micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) producing goods under the One Town One Product (OTOP) program will receive equipment from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to improve the speed and quality of their production. The beneficiaries from different towns and cities in Pangasinan have been chosen under…
LINGAYEN–Twenty ambulant vendors in this capital town will each receive a rolling store with merchandise and free marketing training under the Negosyo sa Kariton (NegoKart) project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in cooperation with the provincial government.
LINGAYEN—Illegal recruiters are now taking advantage of popular social media site Facebook to lure those seeking work overseas. Alex Ferrer, chief of the Provincial Employment Services Office (PESO), issued the warning after several alert jobseekers trooped to his office to report the new modus operandi of suspected illgeal recuriters.
THE Siberian cold wind blowing from dawn to morning, forcing the temperature to dip to as low as 11 degrees centigrade in Baguio at one time, is a bane to the bangus industry in Dagupan City and other parts of Pangasinan City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina explained that when it…
THE National Food Authority in Region I is set to receive around 35,000 metric tons of imported rice from Vietnam as part of the 500,000 metric tons additional imported rice sought by the agency through the government-to-government import scheme. Director Carlito G. Co said the imported rice is meant as…
MORE DONATIONS FOR “YOLANDA” VICTIMS PEOPLE spent less this Christmas for grocery items and other gift packs with sales going down by 20 percent compared with the previous year, according to one supermarket chain operating in Pangasinan and other parts of Luzon. However, the chair of the CSI group of…
DREAMS OF A NEW YEAR’S BLAST—A group of young boys check out the firecrackers lined up for sale along Burgos Street in Dagupan City, the Firecraker Zone in West Central Area, four days before the New Year’s Eve celebration. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
CALASIAO–The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has extended livelihood assistance to at some 25 families from different barangays here with children who are at risk as child laborers. The support comes from the Kabuhayan para sa Magulang ng Batang Manggagawa or KASAMA project, that provides economic activities to parents…
PUTO FESTIVAL—Calasiao celebrates its most famous product, puto (rice cake), during the annual Puto Festival with various activities including the Laro ng Lahi on December 15 and the Farmers’ Day on the 17th where the town’s agricultural produce were put on display in front of the Calasiao Municipal Hall. (Punchphoto…
LINGAYEN–The P3 million prize incentive earned by the province for being one of the top five winners in the “Quality Corn Achievers” Awards this year will be invested in the industry to further boost production. The prize was for Pangasinan having the highest average harvest per hectare of yellow corn.
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