EIGHTEEN business owners were issued notices of violations by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 2022 and charged under Presidential Decree No. 1572 also known as Accreditation Law, one under Business Name Law and one for Price Tag Law, and under Standards Law and Republic Act 4109. DTI…
ONIONS FOR PANGASINENSES – A farmer in Bautista town carries his newly harvested onions from his farm to market that he expect to sell from P240.00-P250.00. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), in a special session called by Mayor Belen Fernandez on December 29, passed an ordinance approving a supplemental budget No. 3 to pay for the one-time gratuity incentive for 1,013 job order employees and contract service employees of the Dagupan City government. Also passed by the…
NEW MARKET, UPGRADED POLICE STATION THE local government of Manaoag, headed by Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario, eyes to improve the town’s public market and to seek upgrading of the status of its police station, as the solution to the town’s dismal traffic woes. Mayor Rosario, in a radio interview on…
BIGGER SPIKE IN ARRRIVALS SEEN IN 2023 THE Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) in Alaminos City is finally seeing a recovery trend when it logged 389,006 tourist arrivals in 2022. Miguel Sison, Alaminos City Tourism Officer, said out of the total number, 267,567 were domestic tourists, while 118,459 were local…
THE provincial government led by Gov. Ramon Guico III and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) represented by Atty. Ricky Arzadon, Office of the Undersecretary for Field Operations and Environment, signed a memorandum of agreement for the Interim Management of the foreshore area for Salt Production. Identified area…
TRADITIONAL GOOD LUCK FRUITS – A fruit vendor in Dagupan City waits for her usual yearly sukis who make it a point to serve a variety of 12 round-shaped fruits on their dinner tables to welcome New Year for good luck and prosperity as a family tradition. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to prevent Mayor Belen Fernandez to appoint employees to fill up vacant positions in the city government since she assumed her post. By withholding a proposed resolution authorizing the chief executive to form a Personnel Selection Board in the executive department up to…
PAID FOR 10-DAYS WORK SOME 10,000 residents of eastern Pangasinan benefited from the Cash For Work Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The beneficiaries were from the towns of Asingan, Natividad, Sta. Maria, Tayug and Umingan. The Risk Resiliency Program-Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Disaster Risk Reduction…
A construction of an slaughterhouse in Dagupan City is already certain following a courtesy call by officials of the National Meat Inspection Service-Regional Technical Operation Center 1 (NMIS-RTOC 1) on Mayor Belen Fernandez last week. In that visit, Mayor Fernandez expressed her intention to build a slaughterhouse for Dagupan to improve the livelihood of meat…
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