CONTRARY to a national television news report, there is no shortage of bangus (milkfish) supply in markets but a controlled situation created by bangus growers who reserve their stock for release on All Saints/Souls Days (November 1-2) for higher profits. This was the suspicion of the city agriculturist of Dagupan,…
OMPONG’S DAMAGE About 5,000 farmers in Pangasinan have joined 43,000 farmers in Region 1 and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) affected by Typhoon Ompong whose crops were destroyed in filing insurances claim at the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) regional office in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. Jaime Gomez, officer-in-charge of the Marketing…
STALLHOLDERS at the Malimgas Public Market in Dagupan City are seeking a five-day rent ‘holiday’ after they failed to operate for days as a result of a series of floods that hit the city. This was gleaned in a letter to Mayor Belen Fernandez, copy furnished Councilor Dennis Canto, chair…
PASYAR PANGASINAN 2018 – Travel agents and tour operators in the country participating in the “Farm, Food and Faith” Familiarization Tour take a breather stop in front of the Capitol Building in Lingayen. The program offers select destinations in the province, a first-hand experience to rediscover Pangasinan. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS YOUNG City Mayor Jalen Kody Miles Fernandez of 2018 “Manlingkor Ya Kalangweran” batch took on new task as teacher to elementary students from different public schools in observance of the National Teachers’ Month this September. The young city mayor visited students of Calmay Elementary School on Wednesday and…
CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – “Alagaan niyo po ang inyong negosyo at ang inyong kalusugan nang makatulong kayo sa inyong pamilya dahil ‘yan po ang buhay ng programang ito.” This was bared by Governor Amado I. Espino, III as he led the awarding of Php5.865 million financial grant to 35…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS A DAGUPENA overseas worker was finally reunited with her family following her repatriation back home, after being maltreated during her stint as an Overseas Filipino Worker in Dammam, Saudia Arabia for more than a year. Thankfully, her mother reached out to the OFW desk through the Public…
CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Amassing a total of 71 medals, the province of Pangasinan secured dramatically the fifth spot against equally strong contingents from 185 local government units in the Batang Pinoy National Championships held in Baguio City from September 15-21. Based on the medal tally released by the…
ALCALA—The father of the incumbent mayor of Alcala, a barangay kagawad, was shot and killed by unidentified armed motorcycle-riding men in tandem in the early morning of September 22 in Barangay Laoac. Kagawad Mario Callejo, 60 also a businessman and a resident of Barangay Gualsic, was on board his Ford…
A MEMBER of a notorious drug syndicate has been collared by operatives of PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) Pangasinan and Dagupan City Police in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Malued in Dagupan City. PDEA Provincial Officer Dexter Asayco, identified the arrested drug dealer as Candice Joan Sta. Maria Cervantes,…
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