GIANT STEPS BY AQUACULTURISTS. — Dr. Rafael Guerrero (left panel), promoter of all-male tilapia culture, and Maximo Abesamis (right pane), pioneer in commercial scale in milkfish farming in sea cages, leave their footprints for posterity at the Asian Fisheries Academy, BFAR-NIFTDC compound. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TWO outstanding Filipino aquaculturists, a scientist and a businessman, were feted last week, Nov. 28 by the Society of Aquaculture Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. (SAEP) and Philippine Aquaculture Society, Inc. (PAS) for their contributions and “devoted service for the advancement of aquaculture in the country.” Honored in Dagupan City…
CAPITOL NEWS SEND-OFF OF VIETNAMESE FISHERMEN IN SUAL President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (standing behind the lecturn) delivers his speech before leading the send-off ceremony for the five Vietnamese fishermen who were caught poaching on Philippine waters in Bolinao sometime in September. The send-off ceremony held on November 29 at the…
CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan– “The job of the president is to maintain balance of friendship and power in the (Asean) region.” This was how President Rodrigo Roa Duterte described the send-off of five Vietnamese fishermen on November 29 at the municipal wharf in Sual town. Noting that the incident is…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN’S 3RD SGLG AWARD – Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (left) and City Budget Officer Luz De Guzman (right) receive the city’s third Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) during the awarding ceremony at the Manila Hotel, Tent City on November 27. (CIO photo)
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN City’s touted Balon Dagupan Children’s Choir (BDCC) added another feather to its cap! Last week, BDCC was declared winner in the 2017 National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) Children’s Choir category during the National Music Week and National Finals Weeks at the Cultural Center of…
CAPITOL NEWS SGLG AWARD FOR PANGASINAN. Governor Amado I. Espino, III receives the SGLG Award from Secretary Francis Tolentino during the National Awarding Ceremony – North Luzon Cluster on November 27, at the Manila Hotel.Flanking them are (From L-R): Usec. Eduardo Año, incoming DILG Secretary; Usec. Catalino Cuy, DILG-OIC; Benita…
A newly born baby died from suffocation when his protective young father sleeping beside him inside the OB ward 1 of Bayambang District Hospital (BDH) unknowingly covered his child’s face with his leg as he kept the latter secure under his legs. P/Superintendent Ronald Sacyat, Bayambang chief of police, said…
ROSALES—Beware of a motorcycle riding hold-up gang victimizing stranded travelers on the highways. A businessman from Bautista town lost P195,000 cash to three motorcycle-riding men who staged a hold-up upon seeing him alone while tending to a flat tire of his Chevrolet SUV along the provincial road between San Salvacion,…
OPLAN BOGA-OPLAN BAKAL TO avoid culpability for possessing unlicensed firearms, two incumbent municipal councilors of San Quintin voluntarily surrendered their firearms to the police whose licenses have expired. Councilor Fidel Reyes surrendered a 12-gauge shotgun and a cal. 45 pistol to the San Quintin Police while he surrendered 5 pieces…
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