PALAY-DRYING BANNED ON DE VENECIA HIGHWAY – Members of the Dagupan Public Order and Safety Office rush to clear the area of wet palay along De Venecia Highway where farmers dumped them for drying. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE driver and the operator of a passenger jeepney plying the San Fabian to Dagupan route who figured in a shouting match two weeks ago with some of his passengers who protested the overcharging of fare, are being investigated by the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB). This was…
THE Social Security System (SSS) issued notices to seven delinquent employers during its third leg of the “Run After Contribution Evaders” (RACE) operation on September 29. The employers of the establishments were issued written orders giving them 15 non-extendable calendar days to visit the SSS Urdaneta Branch located at CB…
THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) clarified that it is not abolishing the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) online portal contrary to posts going viral and circulating in social media. Atty. Teofilo Guadiz III, LTO Chief, said the system is being reviewed to protect the integrity of the Comprehensive Driver’s Education…
THE Department of Agriculture distributed sentinel hogs, hog starter feeds and hog grower feeds to 45 raisers in San Carlos City who lost their hogs to the African Swine Fever. The hog raisers became parts of the ASF Sentineling Program and Livestock Banner Program of the Agriculture Department. The DA…
DANGEROUS DRYING OF PALAY – A farmer’s daughter in Aguilar town stops sweeping dried palay on the Pangasinan-Tarlac highway to acknowledge the passing of a group riding a kuliglig. While the practice of drying palay on highways is banned, local governments have turned a blind eye to the farmers’ insistence to use the highway in spite…
THE Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) reminded drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs) – jeepneys and buses – to secure new fare matrix on authorized fare increases before charging the new fares set to be implemented on Monday, October 3. In a Facebook post Tuesday, September 27, the…
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Region 1 is still committed to achieve zero backlog in resolving land reform cases filed before it. In a press conference, Atty. Glaize Bernadeth Tadeo, the legal chief of DAR Region I, echoed the commitment as she clarified that minor issues such as transfer…
AN agricultural trading post, commonly known as a Bagsakan Center, will soon rise in Barangay Tomana West in Rosales town in partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA). This plan was reached during a recent discussion among Rosales Mayor Mayor Liam Cezar, ABONO Partylist Representative Robert ‘Eskimo’ Estrella Jr., and…
PINAKBET PASTA, ANYONE? — Shoppers at the SM City Urdaneta Central partake of the new “pinakbet pasta” (using locally- produced pinakbet cubes) prepared during the launching of the product by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Pangasinan Entrepreneurs Development Association Inc. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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