SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND PERSONAL HYGIENE PACKAGE FOR DAY CARE PUPILS—Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and City Nutritionist and City Social Welfare and Development Officer Leah distribute school supplies and personal hygiene package for day care pupils during their surprise visit to the Barangay Caranglaan Day Care Center last July 1. The…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN City has started gathering data on the number of out of school youth (OSY) in every barangay in preparation for the implementation of the ‘Abot Alam Program’, an inter-agency literacy program of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC). Mayor Belen T. Fernandez met with the barangay officials…
SINAG calls for BPI brass resignation ROSALES—The multi-industry alliance Samahan ng Industriya at Agrikultura (SINAG) has called on the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) Director Clarito Barron to resign for failing to protect the interest of farmers, amidst price hike on garlic and other agricultural commodities. SINAG Chairman Rosendo So…
‘Ginisa sa sariling bawang’ By Rosendo So EXACTLY 20 years ago today, debates were raging in the Philippine Senate on whether the country should join the World Trade Organization (WTO). In the long years of intergovernmental negotiations before the creation of the WTO, the most contentious issue was the inclusion of…
CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN—At least fifteen local producers in Pangasinan have initially confirmed to participate in the two-day Diversity and Trade Exposition slated on October 3-4, 2014 at the City of Artesia in California, USA. The confirmation was made after the local entrepreneurs, attended a dialogue on June 23 with the…
Lingayen—Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. celebrated his 66th birthday, June 20, with some 416 in-patients of the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City when he visited the hospital starting from the dialysis center to geriatrics (male and female), recovery and pediatrics wards. “I always spend my birthday here…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS By Leziel C. Aquino DAGUPAN CITY -–Mayor Belen T. Fernandez vowed to solve Dagupan’s problem with illegal drugs. She made this commitment during the observance of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking last June 26 at the People’s Astrodome. “We have already fixed the different problems…
WRAPPERS TO PAVERS—-Mayor Belen Fernandez, together with officials from DepEd and Unilever Philippines, hold a sample of paver material that was successfully converted from recycled plastic wrappers under the ‘Wrappers to Pavers’ program initiated by city mayor. Before them were 7,000 of the total 17,900 pieces of pavers turned over…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN CITY—The planned renovation of the Galvan Market is now all set for implementation following the groundbreaking rites last June 27. Explaining the importance of the project, Mayor Belen Fernandez stressed the need to have a safe, clean, presentable, well-organized and customer-friendly public market to attract more buyers and boost…
LINGAYEN — Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. has taken another bolstering step to further improve agricultural production in Pangasinan. In three separate meetings with farmers of the province’s six districts, the Governor distributed a total of 14,000 bags of organic and inorganic fertilizers, 4,750 bags of certified palay seeds, 100,000…
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