NO worries. Pangasinan has enough rice buffer stocks despite the El Niño phenomenon. Frederick Dulay, assistant branch manager of the National Food Authority-Pangasinan, said their palay stocks as of March 7 totaled 17,000 bags, and when converted to rice, it is around 11,000 bags. The shelf life of their stocks…
SCAMMING GULLIBLE OFFICIALS – Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos fields questions from reporters as he leaves the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Lingayen after attending the trial of an impostor who called local officials soliciting funds while pretending to be him. “Ako ay dumalo dahil napakaimportante nito bilang testigo para patunayan na ginamit…
DEPARTMENT of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos arrived in Lingayen town on Friday, February 23, to attend a court hearing against an arrested impostor who used his name to scam people. Abalos attended the hearing to prove that his identify was used and falsified. “Wala akong…
POST MBTF’S DEFENSE THE Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations of the Sangguniang Panlungsod is set to wind up its committee hearings on the 2024 annul budget of Dagupan on March 5 after the Local Finance Committee of the city and the officer-in-charge of the Persons with Disability Affairs Office…
MULTI-awarded poet Santiago ‘Sonny’ Villafania, 53, died 1 a.m. on Monday, February 26, 2024. Villafania’s daughter, Wenna Louise, confirmed his death in her post on his Facebook account: “Dear friends and family, it’s in heavy heart that we write this post. My father, Santiago B. Villafania passed away at 1am…
Housewives in the neighborhood, who found the shed skin of a suspected python, hold up their discovery. (Photograb on Facebook) RESIDENTS of Sitio Nibaliw in Barangay Bued, Calasiao town, are alarmed and fear the presence of a possibly monstrous snake in their neighborhood after they found its shed skin Wednesday…
PRACTICAL LESSON AFTER ‘FIRE OUT’ — An OJT student is taught by a fireman how to install and use a hose to put out a fire after the grass fire in Barangay Mangin in Dagupan City was declared “fire out’ . University students joined the Dagupan City Fire Station in…
THE recent bomb threats in different areas in Pangasinan have alarmed the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office. P/Capt. Renan dela Cruz said in an interview with iFM Dagupan that bomb threats from Feb. 12 to Feb. 19 were in Alaminos City, San Carlos City and in the towns of Mangaldan, Mangatarem,…
P2.018-B FOR 3 SECTORS THE majority and minority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod finally joined hands for the first time since 2022 to approve funding for the P2,018,655,400 Annual Investment Program (AIP) of Dagupan and its accompanying integral plans for Calendar Year 2024. On motion of Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, chair of…
THE Dagupan City government intensified its strict implementation of its “no segregation, no collection” policy among residents in order to meet the city’s commitment to the new partnership with Holcim Philippines Inc., manufacturer of Portland Cement, in solid waste management. Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered City Waste Management Division chief Bernard…
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