The First Fisherfolk Congress will be held on March 26-30 at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Bonuan Binloc for the fisherfolks of Dagupan City and the towns of Mangaldan, San Fabian, Manaoag and San Jacinto. Dr. Westly Rosario, BFAR center chief here and executive director of…
THE Bangus (Milkfish) Festival, a summer fiesta now on its sixth year, has increased investments in Dagupan City by as much as 500% and pushed bangus production higher by 30%, according to city officials. Orpheus Velasco, city information officer, said bangus, the city’s top product, has also gained international recognition…
NORTHERN Luzon’s retail giant CSI Group of Companies is set to make Dagupan City and Pangasinan proud anew with the opening of its newest landmark beside the sprawling CSI the City Mall in barangay Lucao. Belen Fernandez, president of the CSI Group, has announced that the CSI Coliseum and Exhibition…
BIGGEST COLISEUM–Finishing touches are being applied on the 6,000-capacity CSI Coliseum beside the CSI the City Mall in Lucao, Dagupan City, in time for its tentative opening scheduled on mid-April.
FINANCIAL COOPERATIVE FUND—House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. distributes the certificates and identification cards for the members of the Dagupan City Savings and Credit Cooperative to which De Venecia gave an initial P1-million fund. With him are city officials led by Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez and officers of the cooperative….
FROM JDV’S CDF AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MANAOAG—House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. is shelling out P16.5 million from his countrywide development fund for the first Pangasinan Micro Finance Bank in the fourth district. De Venecia, who has started distributing the amount over the weekend, said the project is patterned…
COLEGIO de Dagupan (CdD) has been chosen by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as the new Center of Development (COD) in information Technology in Region 1 for the period of March 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010. In CHED Chairman Dr. Carlito Puno’s March 1 letter to CdC President…
MONITORING THE AGRI SITUATION—Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap fields questions from local newsmen while in Sto. Tomas town monitoring the agriculture situation in Pangasinan in the face of the ongoing mild El Niño occurrence. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano).
STO. TOMAS –Notwithstanding the mild effects of El Niño, the country’s agriculture sector is expected to grow by five to six per cent this year. According to Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, who was in Pangasinan on Wednesday to monitor the province’s agricultural situation, this year’s target is higher than in…
THE Lyceum Northwestern University and the City Government of Dagupan have signed a memorandum of understanding for the comprehensive profiling of the city’s bangus processing industry. The profiling project was conceptualized by the LNU Research and Development Management Office (RDMO) under its Community Research and Development Program. “This is LNU’s…
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