THE Dagupan City government plans to construct 600 housing units to relocate illegal settlers, especially those living in riverbanks. Mayor Benjamin Lim announced the plan last week as he appealed to the city council to help provide funds for the project.

SAN JACINTO–This town will soon be abloom with malunggay (moringa oleifera) leaves after it adopted the plant as its One Town One Product (OTOP). Rep. Gina de Venecia of the 4th District, which covers San Jacinto, has allocated P5 million from her Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) for the construction…

WHY a put a maternal-children’s clinic inside a school compound? This question was raised at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during the initial evaluation of the plan of city hall to put up a Maternal and Children’s Lying-in-Clinic on a lot currently occupied by a public elementary school on A. B….

DRAG racing is now strictly prohibited in Dagupan and violators will be fined or prosecuted. The Sangguniang Panlungsod last week approved Ordinance No. 439 prohibiting “the use of Dagupan City streets or any part of the highway or road for drag racing.”

THE move by some quarters to have Victoriano Estira reappointed as president of Pangasinan State University (PSU) was lambasted by Sixth District Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani notwithstanding the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s endorsement. Shahani abstained during the voting for that endorsement resolution as he alleged that the endorsement was tainted with…

A CASH-FOR-WORK program is underway for affected fishermen and their families in the fishkill-devastated towns of Anda and Bolinao in western Pangasinan. The 10-day program under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is intended to assist some 2,860 households from the two towns.

GOING HOME–A pawikan (Green Sea Turtle) named ‘Joy’ is released back into the sea by Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), which took care of the creature for two weeks after it was turned over by a concerned citizen, Jimmy Po, who purchased…

A GREEN Sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) named “Joy” was sent out to the sea on June 8, more than two weeks after it was surrendered to the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) in Bonuan by its finder. The 6.5 kilogram sea creature, more popularly known by its local…

FINALLY, a sanitary landfill for Dagupan City? This speculation arose after the city hall announced that the city is holding a consultative forum on engineered sanitary landfill on June 7 at the Lenox Hotel with Director Ely Ildefonso of the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) as resource person.