Bangus Festival activities bared
DAGUPAN CITY, March 3 (PIA) – The much awaited Bangus Festival here will have its grand opening on April 8 with various events.Festival coordinators Maximo ‘Beep Beep’ Tan and Alexander Siapno said a motorcade will signal the start of the festivities followed immediately by a mass. A photo contest and a ‘Bangus Ed Carosa’ parade will cap the day.The next day, April 9, a River Cruise, ... Read More here
Pangasinan capitol now wi-fi zone
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Dec.22 (PIA) – The Pangasinan provincial capitol is now a WI-Fi zone.Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. said the recent installation of Wi-Fi is a welcome development because it will serve the needs of students as well as visitors, both local and foreign. Free internet access is available anytime of the day.The provincial government has installed two Internet routers at the front ... Read More here
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Beauty contest sans swimsuit aims to promote spirituality
Dagupan City (19 November) — A beauty pageant without the usual swimsuit?The 2011 Ms. Galicayo-Camilliana Search attempts to be different from most beauty pageants because of its mission – to bring back among Pangasinenses religiosity and particularly veneration to Mother Mary especially young women.Lawyer Diosdado R. Mendoza of the Camillian Foundation (Phils) Inc. said the beauty ... Read More here
Probe underway on Hundred Islands fishponds
Dagupan City (4 November) — Fishponds now dotting the famous Hundred islands have alarmed the provincial government.Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. has directed the Task Force Kalikasan headed by retired police Col. Paterno Orduna to coordinate with the departments of tourism and the environment and natural resources to know the real score, said provincial information officer Orpheus Velasco ... Read More here
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Dagupan elections extended Wednesday
Dagupan City (26 October) — Only 12 out of the 31 barangays of the city pushed through with the barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections yesterday. The remaining 19 barangays where elections were postponed due to the 40,000 missing ballots will conduct their elections tomorrow, October 27.City election officer Remarque Ravanzo said he was assured by the Comelec main office that the ... Read More here
Typhoon Juan leaves minimal damage to Dagupan
Dagupan City (19 October) — Typhoon ‘Juan’ with its 250 center winds when it hit land in Isabela yesterday morning and reduced to just 170 kph when it sideswiped Pangasinan by evening last night left minimal damage to this city.A total of 374 families yesterday afternoon were brought to evacuation centers, comprising 1,171 persons as of early dawn today Tuesday. No casualties ... Read More here
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Pangasinan strengthens anti-TB drive
Lingayen, Pangasinan (27 September) — Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. has instructed the Provincial Health Office (PHO) to put up a Tuberculosis Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (TB DOTS) or supervised treatment center in all the 14 government hospitals.The governor said the TB DOTS centers will help reduce the prevalence and mortality of TB by 50% in 2015 in support to the Millenium ... Read More here
SM, Robinsons to create ‘new town’ in Pangasinan
Dagupan City (24 September) – A virtual town would be created at the eastern part of this city with the reported plan of SM to build its mall at the Tambac-Mayombo section, according to a university president whose institution owns several hectares of land in that area.Dr. Gonzalo T. Duque, president of the Lyceum-Northwestern University, said that the area being developed by rival Robinsons ... Read More here
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Jueteng stops in Pangasinan – PNP
Dagupan City (16 September) — Jueteng operation in Pangasinan has completely stopped, the provincial police office reported KBP forum Thursday.This developed as Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. directed Tuesday the provincial police office under Sr. Supt. Rosueto Ricaforte to intensify its campaign against illegal gambling particularly the numbers game jueteng.Supt. Geraldo Roxas, ... Read More here
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Imported meat sold only in meat shops with cold storage, says Mangaldan mayor
Dagupan City (01 September) – Imported meat is only sold in supermarkets and stores with cold storage facilities in Mangaldan town, the local executive clarified Wednesday in a media forum. Mayor Herminio Romero said that the municipal government was prompted to act immediately on complaints that imported meat was flooding the public market. The municipal council in reaction passed a ... Read More here
Pangasinan set to reclaim rice granary status
Dagupan City — “Babalik ang Pangasinan na rice granary pag tapos na yan.” Engineer Laurence Acebedo, assistant project manager of the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP), thus boldly projected as to what Pangasinan would become when the irrigation re-regulating pond in San Manuel town is completed by mid-2013. Acebedo said some 35,000 hectares of farmlands from ... Read More here
City council endorses Dagupan resort hotel project
Dagupan City (16 August) — The sangguniang panlungsod has endorsed the establishment of a resort hotel along the De Venecia Expressway Extension in barangay Lucao, this city. Vice-Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, whose family is the proponent of the CSI Hotel and Resort project, expressed hope a building permit will be issued to the proponent after submitting necessary requirements to concerned ... Read More here