LINGAYEN – Two employees of the Land Transportation Office LTO based here are in hot water after they were caught receiving marked money from employees of two drug testing centers. P/Supt. Harris Fama, spokesman of the Police Provincial Office, identified the suspects as one Felix Salazar, an LTO Licensing…
ALAMINOS CITY – Around this city and landing on the waters of Hundred Islands will soon be a regular occurrence. Next month, AeroFlite Airways, a Filipino-owned company, is set to base two 12-seater seaplanes here for flights over the islands or to other beach destinations in Luzon and Visayas. Capt….
ALAMINOS–A Japanese firm in the Philippines celebrated its ninth anniversary here by turning over a five-hectare mangrove park it established in the Hundred Islands National Park here. Isuzu Philippines Corporation led by its president Yoshifumi Komura turned over the mangrove park including thousands of mangrove propagules to Alaminos City Mayor…
Typhoon ‘Glenda’ has not caused prices of commodities in the province to rise drastically as feared. According to the Department of the Trade and Industry office here, prices of meat, chicken and fish remained stable in the market. Chicken is still being sold at P110 per kilo, pork liempo, P150,…
Dagupan will not just be known as the bangus capital of the world, but the Seafood Basket of the North as well. This is the aim of the newly-organized Fisherfolk Entrepreneur Program of the city government which will initially provide livelihood opportunities and additional income for the marginalized fisherfolk. In…
BAYAMBANG–It is farfetched that the mysterious disease that affected the onion plants of Bayambang for the first time last year will strike again during the next onion planting season, starting after the rainy season this year. This was the optimistic prediction of Mayor Leocadio de Vera who said timely intervention…
LINGAYEN – Provincial Treasurer Ramon Crisostomo just laughed off intrigues being sown by political quarters that the next governor who will succeed Gov. Victor Agbayani will inherit huge loans from the outgoing provincial administration. Crisostomo said the total standing loan of the provincial government from the Land Bank of the…
Work on the new Pantal bridge can be expected to start soon. The Toyo Construction has already mobilized its personnel and equipment to proceed to Dagupan City preparatory to building the P903 million new Pantal Bridge, according to Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez. Speaking during…
CALASIAO – Traditional ‘puto’ makers of Calasiao are continuously innovating in order to stay in business and survive the challenge of the times. This trend was articulated by Mary Decena, 60, of barangay Dinalaoan, one of the biggest ‘puto’ factories in Calasiao, who said they have since discarded the crude…
The City of Dagupan’s position as the center of trade and commerce in Region I was again affirmed with the decision of Sony Philippines to establish a showroom at ground floor of CSI the City Mall in Dagupan City. Opened last Wednesday in a ceremony attended by Toshiya Kagita, vice…
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