URDANETA CITY — Vegetable supply brought to the Bagsakan (wholesale) Market here from regions 1, 2, 3 and the Cordillera has been cut by 40 percent following Typhoon Pepeng. Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. said farm produce has become scarce as a result of the devastation of farms and heavy damage…

A P1-BILLION bond float, dubbed Pangasinan ECL bond float, is being proposed to help farmers recover from their losses brought about by the 10/9 deluge. Under the proposal, rural banks in Pangasinan should be able to provide 6-month loans to individual farmers.

A MEASURE has been filed in the Dagupan City council requiring local businessmen to raise the ground level of their stores in the aftermath of the 10/9 deluge. Business establishments in the city suffered massive losses in product inventories and damages to equipment at the height of the unprecedented flooding…

DAGUPAN Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairman of the CSI Group of Companies, has assured that prices of commodities being sold by her family-owned City Supermarket Inc. will not increase following the 10/9 flooding in the province. “I assure the public that there will be no increase in prices of commodities…

DESPITE the flood, which hit Pangasinan and Metro Manila, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has not reported rise in prices of prime and basic commodities in the local market. Peter Mangabat, DTI provincial officer, said just like other parts of Luzon, Pangasinan is under the state of calamity…

BECAUSE of the severe flood that occurred in Dagupan City, the 3rd CSI Sari-Sari Store Fair originally slated from October 16 to 18 has been reset to October 28 to 30 this year at CSI Stadia. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, president and chairman of the board of the CSI Group…

FOR ONDOY VICTIMS The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said members in Pangasinan affected by tropical storm “Ondoy” can apply for emergency loans starting October 1. The emergency loan-worth P20, 000 is available to eligible members working in government offices located in areas declared by the National Disaster Coordinating Council…

LINGAYEN–The provincial government decided to retrain 124 unskilled provincial government employees, considered as “excess employees” who had no skills and were without specific functions, and make them productive instead of terminating them. Today, these employees, who were hired by past administrations and would have been laid off for being unproductive,…

THE biggest Japanese quick service chain in the Philippines, Tokyo Tokyo, has finally arrived in Dagupan City! Tokyo Tokyo, with more than 60 branches in its fold, had a soft opening on Friday of another restaurant at the ground floor of the CSI Mall in Dagupan City. The franchise in…

BPI Family Savings Bank (BFSB) Nationwide Auto Madness was again held in Dagupan City at CSI Mall from October 1-4. The participating dealers included Toyota Dagupan, Motorplaza, Inc. (Mitsubishi), Honda Cars Pangasinan, Nissan Pangasinan, Suzuki Auto Dagupan, Kia Pangasinan, Chevrolet Dagupan, Ford Dagupan, Hyundai Dagupan, and Isuzu Pangasinan (Inteco Dagupan/Urdaneta).