AFTER pork smuggling, farmers have again knocked on the doors of Congress over rice. The Abono partylist, representing the agriculture sector, is asking the House of Representatives and the Senate to conduct an inquiry on the negotiators responsible for the negotiations on the extension of the quantitative restrictions (QR) on…

SOFT drinks producer Coca-cola Philippines will soon have its 100th Little Red Schoolhouse, a project launched in 1997. In partnership with the Department of Education and the Philippine Business for Social Progress, Coca-cola has so far built 93 classrooms around rural areas of the Philippines, including parts of Pangasinan, with…

DAGUPAN will soon be using a new software that will improve the city’s billing and tax collection. The new system was introduced during a two-day workshop titled “Pilot Field Training on Business Tax Database Buildup and Estimation of Presumptive Income-Based City Business Taxes” held last week at the Malimgas Market’s…

ROSALES—Leaders of the hog raising industry have asked the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food to conduct an investigation into the smuggling of meat into the country, particularly the P16-billion case in 2011. The Swine Development Council (SDC) and Abono, a partylist representing the agricultural sector, submitted a position paper…

A SPECIAL recruitment activity was hosted on August 3 by the Provincial Employment Services Office (PESO) for two local companies in need of professional and skilled workers. PESO Chief Alex Ferrer said Magna Peak Services Corporation, based in Mabalacat, Pampanga, and Trust International Paper Corporation (TIPCO) in Sta. Maria, Ilocos…

THE Home Development Mutual Fund –Dagupan branch started accepting calamity loan applications last Friday for members who have been affected by last week’s flooding due to monsoon rains. Pag-Ibig Fund Information Officer Huge Olarte said the agency wants to help members in Pangasinan, particularly those who lost their livelihood and…

LATE is not ‘better than never’ in the case of land tax payments. This is the position of Roberto C. Rebodos, a former assessor of Manaoag town, as he advised the provincial government not to be too generous in giving condonations to real estate owners who pay their taxes late….

THE celebrated golden bangus of Dagupan City, which attracted many curious onlookers, had died more than a month ago most likely due to stress and low dissolved oxygen (DO) Dr. Westly Rosario, center chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and director of the National Integrated Fisheries…

ROSALES-Abono Party-list Chairman Rosendo So has challenged the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to “name names” behind the continued smuggling of rice into the country even as he lauded the agency’s intensified efforts to stop the illegal activity. So praised BOC Commissioner Rufino Biazon for the agency’s recent confiscation of 45,000bags…

AN OFFICIAL of the coal-fired Sual Power Plant have given assurance that the facility’s gas emission and waste water are not harmful to the environment. All emissions from the plant are filtered and treated before they are released or disposed, said Training Manager Nicanor Ramos Jr. of TeaM Energy (Tokyo…