DAGUPAN’s 600-strong workforce is set to turn a new leaf in public governance when the city government’s Result Performance Monitoring System becomes operational this month. Considered as a first in the city’s 60-year history, the highly competitive and merit-based system seeks to raise the performance of employees above satisfactory level.

PREPARING FOR SM CITY ROSALES—Karen Padilla, SM Corporate information officer, came to Calasiao last week to brief the local media about plans for the opening of the SM City Rosales scheduled in November. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)

There’s good news and bad news about prices of commodities in the province. A slight increase in prices of some basic commodities was monitored but a decline in the prices of flour, cement, and steel bars were noted by the local Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as well during…

ALAMINOS CITY– Wanted: Professionals and skilled workers in Alberta, Canada! The call for recruitment was confirmed by Carl Benito, a Filipino-Canadian member of the legislative assembly of Alberta, Canada. Benito, who made history for being first Filipino elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton Mill-Woods, Canada, recently visited…

LINGAYEN—More job opportunities here and abroad await welders and pipe fitters. To prepare applicants, Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO) is set to conduct interviews and training on August 13 at 8:00 a.m. at the Narciso Ramos Complex Gymnasium.

STA. BARBARA–Pangasinenses can still expect to see ample supply of the province’s rated-mangoes in the market in the years to come but it will not be enough to keep the province’s standing as the region’s number one producer. A 30 percent decline in the province’s mango production is expected in…

NO CALASIAO PUTO—The usually busy Puto center in Calasiao fronting the town plaza is deserted by the vendors as the knee-high flood water isolated the center for days, caused by the overflow of the Marusay River as a result of continuous rains spawned by the southeast monsoon. Flooding in Calasiao…

SEED DISTRIBUTION—Employees of the Dagupan City Agriculture office (CAO) repack vegetable seeds for distribution to households in 31 barangays in line with the city’s renewed food production program using organic fertilizers. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)

Soon there will be no more mistaking bangus from other provinces for the genuine bangus from Pangasinan. Starting October, bangus produced here will bear blue tags on the fin to distinguish it from the co-called “alien” bangus from other provinces.

URDANETA CITY– Minacs, a major call center company with head office in Libis, Quezon City has confirmed its plan to establish a call center here that will initially open 1,000 jobs. Councilor Higinio Agsalud, majority floor leader of the city council, said officials of Minacs came to the city twice…