CEBUANA Lhuillier, the leading pawnshop chain in the country did it again!     It’s  Dagupan branch recently announced the establishment of its “PawnAssurance”.  through its insurance agency affiliate, P. Lhuillier Insurance Agency (PLIA).  With this new service, Cebuana Lhuillier is poised to create another milestone in the pawnshop industry through the…

DAGUPAN CITY- Is it a case of political payback or a simply case of flagrant flouting of the law in the city?  The question was raised after the Office of the City Agriculturist came under fire for the sudden proliferation of illegal fish pens in various rivers and municipal waters…

LAST September 25, the Hotels, Bars and Restaurant Association of Dagupan or HBRAD had their first elections of  officers at the Conference Room of the City Mayor’s Office. HBRAD is an association of hotels, bars and restaurants owners with the objective of promoting unity and mutual cooperation  among those in…

Dagupan City– The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) rose to P375 from its previous price of  P362 or an increase of P13, based on the price monitoring report of the Department of Trade and Industry based here.  The DTI said the price of LPG can possibly jump to P400 by next…

TO help improve fish vendors’ profit margins in the Malimgas Public Market, the city government will no longer allow the retail of fish in the Magsaysay  wholesale fish market. Butch Gutierrez, head of the city’s anti-hawking task force, said  this is being done in order to rationalize the fish market…

THE One-Stop-Business Shop at city hall has collected a total of P133,175,510.74 last year, higher than its collections in 2003. Digna Liwanag, head of the One-Stop-Business Shop, said the collections came from business, real property, community,  and miscellaneous taxes. Last year, they  had collected P50,419,782.74 for the month of January…

DAGUPAN CITY — If you speak English proficiently, computer literate, and competent in accounting, you may have a job waiting for you at a call center in the province soon.  “The clients will locate in Pangasinan as soon as the call center agents are qualified,” Tim Keefe, president of  Synergia…

HOTSHOTS By: Nap Donato MY PROVINCE:                Ms. Joyce Gacutan, the PR officer of MIRANT based in Sual called me in my cee to give her reactions  to my previous column regarding MIRANT’s (U.S.) filing of Chapter 11 in the U.S. Here’s the complete response: MIRANT PHILIPPINES NOT AFFECTED BY CHAPTER…

Hope glitters for mango industry. This exotic tropical fruit might successfully penetrate the international market (if plans are implemented properly) as agriculture authorities and the four Ilocos region provinces are eyeing the international market. Recently, a month-long training was opened at the Agriculture Training Institute-Provincial Training Center in Sta. Barbara….