Editorial Cartoon
Our farmers suffered the most THE Provincial Agricultural Office (PAO) cannot be depended upon fully to preserve and protect the interests of our stakeholders in the agriculture front for as long as it cannot see beyond cold statistics to describe the state of the industry. We note PAO’s damage report…
EDITORIAL
IT’S HARVEST TIME — Farmers take advantage of the sunny weather and thresh their newly-harvested palay beside a field in a village in Lingayen. The expected supply from the new harvest is expected to help normalize price of rice in the market. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
IT’S HARVEST TIME
DESPITE P2.7-M DAMAGE TO AGRI LINGAYEN— Despite the P2.7-billion total damage to agriculture in the province due to the successive monsoon rains and Typhoon Ompong that recently hit Pangasinan, the provincial agriculture office said the province still has ample supply of rice and vegetables and other high value crops. Nestor…
No rice, vegetable shortage in Pangasinan
NFA RICE STILL P32 THE end for the period of spiraling prices of rice is here. Households in Pangasinan can begin to expect price of commercial rice to lower in the weeks ahead because the harvest season has started and the imported rice ordered by government will start arriving in…
Lower price of rice seen starting this week
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), in a special session Wednesday afternoon, passed a resolution declaring a new a State of Calamity in Dagupan City. Resolution No. R-5683, authored by Majority Floor Leader Maybelyn Fernandez, was passed after lifting a prior declaration issued two months on July 18, 2018 when the city…
SP declares 2nd State of Calamity for Dagupan
AN ordinance passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod regulating the conduct of backfilling of lots as a result of reclassification supposedly under the city’s zoning ordinance passed sometime in 2016 was vetoed by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Vetoed was Ordinance No. 2147-2018 authored by Councilor Nicanor Aquino, chairman on the committee…
Mayor Fernandez vetoes anti-backfilling ordinance
USUAL LAST MINUTE REGISTRATION – As expected, hundreds of Dagupan voters queue at the Dagupan Comelec office to register for the 2019 election, one day before September 29 deadline. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
USUAL LAST MINUTE REGISTRATION
DON’T be surprised if more senatorial wannabes begin to frequent Pangasainan starting next month. Reason? Pangasinan registered 108,633 new voters as of last September 27, making the province still one with the most number of voters in the country. Atty. Marino Salas, provincial election officer of Pangasinan said the number is…
