AMPLE COMMERCIAL RICE AVAILABLE THERE are no rice stocks in the warehouses of the National Food Authority (NFA) in Western Pangasinan and the markets, according to Lita Catabay, the cereal agency’s senior enforcement and investigation officer for Western Pangasinan. Speaking at a KBP Forum on May 3, Catabay said her office…
BOODLE SA DULANG — Gov. Amado Espino III, flanked by Mrs. Espino and Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim, takes their share of the seafood laid out on the dulang while Limgas beauties take small bites of seafoods. “Dulang” is a Pangasinan word for “hapag-kainan” or dining table. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FORMER Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. has called for the expansion of Dagupan’s Bangus Festival into a “South China Sea Festival” that will also have China and Vietnam as active participants. Speaking to newsmen on the sidelines of the Dagupan Street Party or “Kalutan ed Dalan”, De Venecia said if…
A REVIVAL of happy childhood play is what’s good for today’s gadget-conscious generation of young children. This is the goal of a resolution passed by the Dagupan City council requesting the Department of Education (DepEd) to include the playing of various traditional Filipino games in the Physical Education (PE) classes of kindergarten and elementary…
THE provincial office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is in a quandary about two different lists of incumbent barangay officials alleged to be involved in the illegal drug trade: one from the provincial office of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the other from the…
DAGUPAN City councilors are one in asking the administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez to call for a summit on traffic management in the city to address emerging traffic problems in many parts of the city. The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) last week passed a resolution requesting Fernandez to call an “urgent…
STUDENTS and out-of-school youths in Pangasinan now have more reasons to continue their studies in the coming academic year. Three universities and one college will implement soon the free college education law. Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, one of the principal sponsors of the free college law, said students and out-of-school…
GRILL CHEFS — Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos and Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque show Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez how they grill their bangus. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
AFTER SM CITY ROSALES SM City Urdaneta Central, SM Prime Holding’s 69th mall in the country, opened its doors to serve shoppers in Pangasinan last Friday, May 4. It is the second SM Supermall after SM City Rosales to open in the largest province in the Ilocos Region. Located on…
JOBSEEKERS have a chance to land jobs with job fairs schedules for the rest of the first half of this year, the Department of Labor and Employment Regional Office 1 said. “Graduation season is here again so the DOLE and its partners are intensifying the conduct of job fairs. We make…
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