TO STOP SMUGGLING ATTEMPTS AFTER foiling a series of attempts by hog raisers from other provinces to skip established checkpoints in main entry points to Pangasinan, the Police Provincial Police Office (PPPO) has implemented a three-ring quarantine checkpoints operation to ensure that no trucks loaded with hogs sourced from outside…
IF Dagupan City has mosquito fish in stagnant waters to help contain the spread of dengue-carrying mosquitoes, San Manuel town has frogs in the farm lands to do it. This was revealed by Mayor Kenneth Perez whose town still has zero dengue deaths so far and attributed this partly to…
WHILE there is still no report of local hogs affected by African Swine Flu (ASF), hog raisers in the province were advised to avoid swill feeding of their livestock as they continue to intensify their bio-security to protect the industry against African Swine Flu (ASF). Rosendo So, chairman of Samahan…
LINGAYEN–The province registered an alarming rate of increasing teen pregnancy, owning 60 percent of the statistics in the whole of Region 1, which also includes La Union, Ilocos Sur, and Ilocos Norte. This was disclosed by Provincial Population Cooperative and Livelihood Development Officer Ellsworth Gonzales who said that in their…
TEST OF HONESTY, ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION – A PMA cadet walks around to check on 600 applicants who would be inclined to fail the PMA qualifying test by cheating during the conduct of the nationwide PMA entrance exams. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE University of the Philippines Zoological Society called out the he Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources – National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (BFAR-NIFTDC) for distributing mosquito fishes (gambusia affinis), in suspected breeding areas of dengue-carrying mosquitoes. In its Facebook post on August 24, the organization asked BFAR-NIFTDC’ to…
BUMPY, MUDDY BARANGAY ORAD LINGAYEN – “Kailan kaya maaayos?” Residents of Barangay Quibaol and Basing here continued to complain about their barangay road full of path holes. Many wondered when will it ever be fixed. “Hindi lang pala ako ang nakapansin. Sana maaksyonan sa lalong madaling panahon kasi ilang beses…
LINGAYEN–A national validating team from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has completed its document review and onsite visit in the province in connection with Pangasinan’s bid for its fifth Seal of Local Governance. Local Government Operations Officer V Alvin Rex Lucero of DILG Region IX, and…
THE Espino administration’s Provincial Housing and Urban Development Office (PHUDO) conducted series of training-workshops to update of Local Shelter Plan of Local Government Units (LGUs) and the formulation of the Prov’l Shelter Development Plan. In the last scheduled training-workshop held from August 26 to 30 at Purok Marcela Beach Resort,…
PANGASINAN has already registered 27, 226 individuals as regular voters and another 17, 352 for Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) as of last month. Provincial Election Supervisor Marino Salas said the number for SK registrants was boosted by their off-site registration in schools where a maximum of 500 registrants daily was recorded….
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