TWO years after the last wage adjustment in Region 1 was implemented in 2008, no new petition for an increase has so far been filed but employers are open to giving out other incentives to employees. Businessman Salvador Poserio, provincial head of the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), said…
GREAT expectations are being placed on the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP). “Babalik ang Pangasinan na rice granary pag tapos na yan,” said Engineer Laurence Acebedo, assistant project manager for ARIIP.
TRICYCLE FRANCHISES–Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (center) talks to tricycle drivers and operators during a dialogue at the Sangguniang Panlungsod parking area about the opening of applications for 380 new franchises for motorized tricycles in the city on Aug. 24-25. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
THE Dagupan City Council is now ready to grant some 380 new franchises for motorized tricycles on a strictly first come, first served basis. Councilor Karlos Liberato Reyna IV, chairman on public utilities of the city council, said new applicants can file their applications on August 24 to 26 from…
DEBATE ON LOCATIONAL CLEARANCE THE application for a locational clearance for the 60-room CSI Hotel and Resort project being planned by the company owned by the family of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez has been questioned by Councilor Marc Brian Lim.
TALONG (eggplant), one of the most widely-used vegetables in the country, is a celebrated agricultural product in Pangasinan. The big town of Villasis, a major vegetable-growing first class municipality located along the main northern Luzon highway, has a grand annual Talong Festival every January and has even published a cookbook…
LINGAYEN–A delegation headed by Gov. Amado Espino Jr. was in South Korea last week for an agricultural training relating to the Rice Processing Complex (RPC) now under construction. The group was composed of officials and prospective personnel of the RPC, which is being built with financial and technical help from…
NO rotten or rotting rice stocks are stashed in National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses in Pangasinan. This assurance was made by Ramon Cuaresma, head of the NFA western Pangasinan branch, during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency last week. “Walang bulok at wala ring nabubulok sa aming warehouses,” Cuaresma…
THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) has developed a low-cost SHEGA III grain moisture meter, which is now available for palay and corn farmers and traders. The PHilMech moisture meter costs about P12,000 each, cheaper than the imported variety that costs P15,000- P30,000.
CALASIAO, a town known for its puto product, will soon be the site of a Robinsons shopping mall. Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay, speaking during the Engkwentro forum of the Pangasinan Press Club Tuesday, said the Gokongwei company is now undertaking backfilling activities at a six-hectare site along the Calasiao diversion…
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