LINGAYEN–After hurdling a series of stringent evaluations last month, the Regional Development Council cited the provincial government as Best LGU Poverty Reduction Program Implementer for 2013. Provincial Administrator Rafael Howard Baraan announced the new honor bestowed on Pangasinan during the flag raising ceremony last February 24 and thanked and congratulated…

LINGAYEN- -Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr. thanked the local government of Alaminos City headed by Mayor Arthur F. Celeste for the warm reception extended to the provincial board when the 8th Sangguniang Panlalawigan held its first out-of-town regular session on February 24 at the Provincial Agricultural Field Office…

LINGAYEN–Provincial employees have once availed of free medical check-up, a program of the provincial government to keep its more than 3,000 workforce physically fit and healthy. The activity, held February 19 at the Provincial Employment Skills Development Center, is part of the employees’ month celebration, a project of the present administration which…

THE Office of the Provincial Agriculturist is all set for the dispersal of another 120,000 pieces of tilapia fingerlings in the communal waters of three municipalities in the province. The towns of Malasiqui, Bolinao, and Balungao are among the beneficiaries of the three-day tilapia fingerlings dispersal from February 19 to…

LINGAYEN–Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. has lent his full support to the candidacies of 2nd District Board Member Raul P. Sison and 5th District Board Member Clemente B. Arboleda, Jr. who are both running for the position of national treasurer in the Provincial Board Members League of the Philippines (PBMLP) and…

LINGAYEN- – -The Provincial Health Office (PHO) has been granted a certificate of registration from the Certification International Philippines Inc. (CIPI) to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) last January 23.

LINGAYEN–Actress-politician Alma Moreno, a councilor of Paranaque City and also the National Chairman of the Philippine Councilors League, paid a courtesy call on Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. during her visit to Pangasinan on February 4 to disseminate the various programs and projects for legislators.

BACOLOD CITY– Despite  stiff competition among 128 participating Local Government Units (LGUs) in the Philippines, team Pangasinan hauled in 45 medals, making the province 10th in the overall ranking of the 2013 Batang Pinoy national championships held from January 28 to February 1 here.

LINGAYEN–More than a thousand Pangasinenses, both children and adults, were treated of different illnesses by a team from the Philippine American Medical Society (PAMS) in Western Pennsylvania who were in Pangasinan for a five-day medical mission from January 27 to 31 in Urdaneta City and the towns of Asingan, Malasiqui,…