Dagupan City has been cited as one of the Most Competitive Cities in the Philippines in the small cities category last February 13 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Makati City. Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez, representi8ng Mayor Benjamin Lim, received the award with Sangguniang Panlungsod members Joey Tamayo Alex de Venecia,…
A provincial task force formed by Gov. Victor Agbayani is set to conduct a dialogue with refillers, dealers and retailers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) aimed at guarding, regulating and monitoring unsafe LPG cylinders. Marjury Loresco of the Department of Trade and Industry said the dialogue will be called by…
Urdaneta City – Mator Amadeo Perez Jr. has formed a task force that will evaluate the performance of employees and determine which department they would be most qualified for. This, he said, is in line with the possible retrenchment program to be effected by the city government this year…
Dagupan residents will start paying more for their water consumption beginning this month. Dagupan City Water District General Manager Ramon Reyna said consumers will see the minimal increase reflected in their March billing for their consumption in February. Reyna said that under the bracket system drawn up by…
The efforts of the city government for disaster preparedness have been intensified as the city starts the implementation of the Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia (PROMISE) this February. PROMISE, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development, is managed by…
A Philippine-Japan joint venture company is keen on investing in the planned Bangus Processing Plant in Dagupan City. Mayor Benjamin S. Lim, in a meeting with local media, said Phil-Nippon has visited the city twice and has expressed interest in the processing plant project in Bonuan Binloc, to be located…
BINMALEY’S TOURISM TREAT BINMALEY–It’s time for this town, known as the Fish Bowl of Pangasinan, to take center stage. The first-ever “Bingalo tan Malaga” (prawns and siganid) festival will be staged during the town fiesta celebration on February 2. Municipal Councilor Leo Urmaza who heads the festival committee said…
A Wedding to remember By Eva C. Visperas This wedding could be easily classified as the wedding of the year, if not wedding of the decade, as the country’s “who’s who” were in attendance. Held last Jan. 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the Santuario de San Antonio, Forbes Park in Makati…
PLDT UNLIMITED P10 Per Call is back for good! PLDT subscribers in the province now have the freedom to call over 20 million Smart users for as often and as long as they want at only P10 per call. That’s because the Unlimited P10 Per Call rate for PLDT to…
MY CITY: Hon. Judge Laron decided in favor of Ms. Salayog absolving her of the case filed by my City for estafa in the case of the missing P11M recently. According to some insiders, the amount is P22M because, a week before Mayor BSL sat into office in 2001 –…
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