‘MYSTERY clients’ will be fielded by the city government starting October to see how taxpayers of the city are being served by city hall employees.
City Administrator Alvin Fernandez explained that the “mystery client” is like a surveillance check on how employees attend to clients who are carrying out transactions with the city government.
Ten volunteers will be sent to visit various City Hall offices pretending to be clients to acquire information and rate the attending employee’s performance, patience, efficiency, courtesy and orderliness of workplace. Read the rest of this entry »
LINGAYEN – More than two months after he assumed office, Gov. Amado Espino Jr. has yet to fill up the position of City Legal Officer.
Provincial Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. said the seat of the PLO has long been empty and no one seemingly wants to occupy it.
Bince, a lawyer himself and the longest serving provincial board member, called the situation “abnormal”. Read the rest of this entry »
ALAMINOS CITY – The town of Anda is finally doing away with all fish pens and cages by January next year so the big fishkill that happened sometime in June this year will not recur anymore.
In that fishkill which caught the attention of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap no less because of its magnitude, some P10 million worth of bangus was lost.
Mayor Nestor Pulido told newsmen here on Monday that so far only seven fish cages remain on the Anda side of the Caquiputan Channel, a body of water which his town shares with Bolinao. Read the rest of this entry »
THE Dagupan city government, through the city agriculture office, is now implementing a color coding scheme for the river system to guide fisherfolk in their daily aquaculture operations and activities.
City agriculturist Emma Molina said that water quality monitoring boards carrying three different colors will be deployed within the 10 identified critical zones and water sampling stations, namely: Pugaro, Lasip Grande, boundary of Dagupan and Binmaley Talaib-Tocok, Watac area, waiting shed near DCNHS, Dawel, Calmay Ilocano, Calmay-Carael and Magsaysay area. Read the rest of this entry »
ALAMINOS CITY – Three sites have been checked out by the Department of Transportation and Communication as possible location of a proposed international airport to be built here hopefully starting next year at a cost of half a billion pesos.
City Mayor Hernani Braganza said the three sites were the subject of an ocular inspection two weeks ago by a technical team from the DOTC that found all sites recommended by the city government to have passed the criteria as possible location of the Pangasinan International Airport. Read the rest of this entry »
By VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
URDANETA CITY – This eastern Pangasinan city became the latest recipient of medical and dental services Tuesday, as part of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s ‘Walang Kupas Roadshow’ staged in the Ilocos region.
City Mayor Amadeo R. Perez ,Jr thanked PCSO for choosing Urdaneta as a beneficiary. He said indigent patients started arriving as early as 8 am
“Akmang- akma nga itong walang kupas na tema ng PCSO,” Perez said.” Alam naman nating all these years, when you speak of charity, when you speak of help to the poorer sector of the community, ang ahensiya ng gobyerno at walang kupas na naninilbihan ay ang PCSO, kaya maraming salamat sa PCSO”
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SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The new Machine Readable Passport will soon be available to applicants applying for a Philippine Passport for the first time and to those renewing their old passports at the Department of Foreign Affairs – Regional Consular Office-1 (DFA-RCO 1) here.
DFA regional director Eleonor B. Belgica said first timer or renewal applicants have to personally appear to sign and thumb-print their application form before a Consular Officer at DFA-RCO 1
Applicants are also required to submit three copies of their passport-size photograph taken against a royal blue background, instead of the white background required in the old system. The photograph, signature and thumbprints of the applicant will be stored in the passport database, Belgica said. Read the rest of this entry »
ALAMINOS CITY – A giant rare sea turtle (pawikan) was released to the sea shortly after it was turned over to the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) here.
Celso Salazar, CENRO for western Pangasinan, said the sea turtle was released in Baquioen Bay, Sual, soon after this was turned over to his office by Dr. Carlito Arenas, director of the Trauma and Specialist Hospital in Dagupan City.
Arenas, a member of the Rotary Club of Dagupan, said he bought the rare sea turtle from a boy in Sual for P500 so he can turn it over to the DENR to be released to the sea. Read the rest of this entry »
BINMALEY – The Manat river here has been chosen a pilot area for oyster farming by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).
Mayor Simplicio Rosario said a model oyster farm will be put up in this river jointly by the BFAR and the municipal government with the support of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
This will become a show window for oyster raising in the whole of Pangasinan. Read the rest of this entry »
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