PLIGHT OF OFWS – Officials of national and local governments discuss other priority benefits and protection needed by OFWs during the vigil for Dagupeña Marjorette Garcia who was killed in Saudi Arabia. Gov. Ramon Guico lll, Vice Gov, Lambino and Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez are shown in a huddle with OWWA Admin. Arnel…
THE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has announced that families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Dagupan who were affected by past calamities will receive financial assistance. OWWA Administrator Arnaldo Ignacio, along with Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Leo Hans Cacdac, made this announcement during a visit to…
NEW MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES HEALTH experts have identified peer pressure, amplified by technology, as the primary cause of mental health issues in individuals. During a press conference at the Department of Health Region 1-Center for Health Development (DOH1-CHD), neurologist Dr. Emerson Patawaran pointed out that social media platforms have contributed…
THE Pangasinan Public Employment Service Office (PESO) organized the first-ever Community-Based Skills Training Project on Basic Electrical Troubleshooting and Basic Carpentry Repair for Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL). The one-day training was held on October 13 at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Provincial Prison and Correctional Facility in Lingayen Poblacion…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan) Nine rabies deaths in Pangasinan this year THE Provincial Health Office urges the public to vaccinate their pet dogs and cats against rabies. Data from the first to the third quarter of this year show that nine persons have died from rabies, an increase compared…
VALIDATING WB REPORT — Vice Gov. Mark Lambino and Board Member Apple Bacay have a huddle with two province’s school officials, Dr. Sheila Marie Primicias, San Carlos City Schools Division superintendent; and Dr. Aguedo Fernandez, Urdaneta City Schools Division superintendent, after giving their reactions to the 2022 report of the…
FIVE school division superintendents in Pangasinan concurred with the World Bank’s report, stating that the learning poverty in the Philippines was recorded at 91% in 2022. The steep figure means that, approximately nine out of ten Filipino children aged 10 struggle to read simple text. This was clarified during the…
THE Regional Trial Court, 1st Judicial Region, Branch 56 in San Carlos City, granted a motion for reconsideration, returning possession of the Bayambang Central School, built in 1914, to the Bayambang municipal local government. In a statement posted on Balon Bayambang, the town’s official Facebook page, it said that it…
THE Mangaldan local government will mobilize over 300 LGU personnel for the upcoming observance of Undas on November 1- 2. Mayor Bonafe de Vera Parayno said the team will form a composite emergency response unit to oversee activities in all cemeteries in town, as well as churches and areas with…
ON Saturday, October 7, eleven national high schools in the Fourth District received computer sets, courtesy of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and Rep. Christopher de Venecia. De Venecia said PAGCOR is sharing a portion of its corporate income to rural schools to empower students with the tools…
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