BEATING THE RAINY SEASON – A farm worker rushes to harvest more salt from a salt bed in Sitio Paradise, Barangay Telbang, Alaminos City anticipating more rains ahead. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SOCIAL Security System (SSS) members can start updating their contact information via My.SSS portal. Online updating of contact information was suspended last year to allow improvement of the system with additional safety measures in the state-run pension fund’s system. Joane Garimbao, acting regional communication officer of SSS-Luzon Central I Division,…
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) completed the flood mitigation structure along Agno River in Barangay Pantal, Bugallon town. During typhoons and heavy rains, the Agno River that traverses nine provinces including Pangasinan, affects communities like Bugallon when the river overflows due to flooding. The completed 342 lineal…
SUMMER’S GONE — With the usual daily crowd at the beach gone, the vendor shifts to selling household wares in coastal houses. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Social Security System (SSS) Alaminos Branch launched the ‘Run After Contribution Evaders’ (RACE) campaign recently to create higher awareness towards employer obligation with the Social Security Law and to intensify SSS collection efficiency, thereby providing rightful SSS benefits to employed individuals. To underscore the campaign’s importance, SSS officials visited…
TO secure the continuity of power transmission services in the case of a major system disturbance, NGCP recently conducted its annual blackout drill for the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao grids. The exercise, conducted yearly since the start of NGCP’s operations, involved both tabletop discussions and an actual simulation drill and…
THE Rice Business Innovations System (RiceBIS) Community Modern Farms Project launched in Mangatarem town had helped increase the production of the participating rice farmers. Through the RiceBIS Community Modern Farms Project of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), Corales said the participating farmers in Mangatarem town not only had increased…
THE SM City Urdaneta Central officially opened its Level 3 expansion last May 13, providing more shopping and dining venues for shoppers and patrons of Urdaneta City and nearby towns.. The expansion offers a wide array of retail, dining, wellness, and service concept shops that cater to every type of…
OVER 600 aspiring nurses and certified public accountants (CPAs) are set to take the Professional Regulation Commission’s (PRC) licensure examinations this May. There are 449 expected to take the licensure examination for nurses on May 29 and 30 while 223 examinees will take the examination for CPAs on May 22 to 24 at…
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is constructing a flood mitigation structure along Balingcaguing River in Aloleng Village, Agno town. Esperanza Tinaza, DPWH in Ilocos regional public information officer, said the flood mitigation project, being implemented by the DPWH-First District Engineering Office, seeks to improve and protect coastal…
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