THE National Food Authority (NFA) has made it easier for farmers to sell their palay to the NFA buying stations by delegating the issuance of an authority to deliver (ATD) to the warehouse supervisors who directly receive the delivery. “The (new) process will cut on time and expenses on the…

SOME 5,948 jobseekers were registered by the Dagupan City Employment Service Office (CESO) during the last two quarters of 2011. CESO referred 2,647 applicants for local vacancies and 1,862 entrants for international job openings, enabling them to have matching works with 365 various unoccupied posts and 48,061 positions solicited from the…

ALAMINOS CITY–An aggressive tax collection campaign launched by the city government paid off with the increase in collection of business, real property taxes and other fees and charges by six percent as of January this year. Records show the city government here registered a total collection of P25,371,953.83 from various…

CONSTRUCTION of the planned airport in Alaminos City, which has encountered delays for various reasons, is now in the “clearing phase”, according to Mayor Hernani Braganza. Braganza reiterated that the airport will benefit not just Alaminos, home of the Hundred Islands National Park which is one of the most popular…

BANGUS CAPITAL TAG DEBUNKED? WITH an average of just P222 a day collected by the city from auxiliary invoices imposed on the volume of fish leaving the city’s fish market daily, can Dagupan really claim to be the “Bangus Capital of the World”? Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez made this comment…

SAN CARLOS CITY–Linemen of the Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (CENPELCO) based here received free training from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on February 1-2 on maintenance works. CENPELCO, which distributes electricity in central Pangasinan, is one of the grid customers of NGCP, the country’s only power transmission…

THE city agriculture office has launched another alternative source of income for the poor through the Profitable Indigenous Grow-Out Systems (PIGS) in barangay Mangin last Thursday in line with Mayor Benjamin Lim’s plan to promote Dagupan for its special lechon. Forty piglets were distributed to ten beneficiaries who have been…

EIGHT years after it was opened in 2004, the Malimgas Public Market continues to be a burden to the city government rather than a revenue source as occupancy rate remains at just 60 percent. This was confirmed by the city’s market superintendent Carlito Vallo when he presented the budget of…