THE provincial government has released the midyear bonus of some 2,678 regular and casual employees amounting to over P29 million.
Provincial Budget Officer Hilaria J. Claveria said those entitled to the compensation were the chiefs of offices, rank and file personnel and casual employees who are assigned in various offices and hospitals under the provincial government.
Claveria added that the amount constituted 50 percent of the monthly basic salary of each employee depending on their corresponding monthly rates. Read the rest of this entry »
THE Dagupan City Water District (DCW) has deferred its plan to adjust the water rate here originally scheduled to start July 1, 2008.
DCWD General Manager Ramon Reyna said the water district deferred to the city council to postpone the water rate adjustment due to the impact of the past typhoon Cosme as well as the deepening economic crisis not only in Dagupan but the entire country. Read the rest of this entry »
BINMALEY—Reconstruction and rehabilitation of schools damaged by typhoon Cosme stopped last week here when the town mayor noticed substandard materials being used by the Department of Education (DepEd) contractors.
Mayor Simplicio Rosario said he ordered a half to the reconstruction of the de-roofed Binmaley North Elementary School and the Binmaley Central Elementary School when he noted that 9 millimeter steel bars were being used by the contractors as reinforcement of the roofbeams. Read the rest of this entry »
LINGAYEN—Rep. Victor Agbayani of the second district of Pangasinan revealed many proposals in Congress aimed at helping the people, especially the poor, overcome the present deepening economic crisis brought about by the continuing increase in the prices of oil and energy.
Among the major ones, Agbayani said, is the suspension and or reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) for power and fuel and the third is not just to suspend or remove the VAT but to remove the VAT on those two commodities.
The fourth, said Agbayani is to continue with the VAT but the surplus revenue earned by the government must be used to subsidize some commodities in order to ease the impact of the economic crisis upon the people. Read the rest of this entry »
CLASSES have finally opened last Monday in two public elementary schools in Dagupan some of whose classrooms were destroyed by typhoon Cosme.
The Pantal Elementary School as well as the East Central Elementary School were delayed in their opening to give way to the repair of some of their buildings blown down by howlers.
City Schools Superintendent Aurora Domingo said the two schools were opened even as repair of damaged school houses in the two schools are still going on.
She said classes had to be divided into two shifts utilizing the few available classrooms.
All the other public schools in Dagupan opened on June 10, except the two schools.
HEALTH authorities here warned of a possible slight increase of dengue during the coming months due to the onset of the rainy season.
City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell revealed that from January to June 17, his office has listed down 44 cases of dengue which is slightly higher than the 40 cases registered for the same period last year.
He said that fortunately no mortality was reported so far. Read the rest of this entry »
By FREDIE G. LAZARO
VIGAN CITY—A town mayor of Abra province reiterated his appeal to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and other concerned agencies for the relief of the Police Regional Director in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and the Police Provincial Director of Abra.
In reiterating his appeal, Mayor Edwin Crisologo Sr. of Tineg, Abra also sought an impartial re-investigation of the series of killings in his town to give justice to the family of the innocent victims. Read the rest of this entry »
THE city of Dagupan received an initial 2,000 galvanizing iron sheets on Monday from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for distribution to typhoon victims whose houses were de-roofed by typhoon Cosme on May 17.
The G.I sheets were withdrawn by Dagupan City Administrator Alvin Fernandez form the Second Highway District Engineering Office in Lingayen following submission of a list of actual typhoon victims duly validated by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
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G.I. sheets ready but DSWD OK slow
WITH delivery of the promised galvanized iron sheets for typhoon victims now coming at a fast clip from the Department of Public Works and Highways, the other main agency put in charge of rehabilitation of damaged houses in Pangasinan – the Department of Social Welfare and Development – appears overwhelmed by the job of disposing these with dispatch to “validated” recipients.
Dagupan City, one of the very first local government units to submit its list of totally damaged houses based on DSWD guidelines, received its first 2,000 G.I sheets late last week from the DPWH after DSWD’s approval and validation of the list.
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