DENR REVS UP HOPE

THE vision for a sensible waste management system in Pangasinan is not yet lost.

No less than the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has declared that the proposed multi-million peso sanitary landfill in Bayambang town could not be deemed a failure as the project has not yet started.

Speaking to newsmen, Samuel Songcuan, community environment and natural resources officer in Pangasinan, said, “Hindi pa nagsisimula ang landfill doon kaya hindi natin masasabi na failure (The landfill project there has yet to start so we can’t say that it is already a failure).”
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THE Dawel-Lucao Diversion Road project, which started construction in 2002, will be completed and opened by March 2008, said Engr. Fidel Ginez, regional director of the Department of Public Works and Highways.

Ginez, in an interview with The PUNCH, said the P1.249-billion road project, considered as the biggest so far in Dagupan City, is already 70% complete and the target period of completion will be met byMarch next year.
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PROVINCIAL election officers (EO) won’t be celebrating Pangasinan Day on Tuesday, November 13.

Instead, they are trooping to the Commission on Election (Comelec) head office in Manila to lobby for the release of unpaid honoraria to teachers amounting to P21.5 million.

Teachers who served as board of election tellers during the October 29 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) election have yet to receive even half of their due compensation.
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CALASIAO-Please give us more time.

This was the joint plea raised by the mayors in the province to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in response to warnings recently issued for the compliance to the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or R.A. 9003.

The law mandates local government units to establish an ecological solid waste management program by February 2006, more than two and a half years ago.
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IT is a working visit aimed at promoting Pangasinan.

This was how Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan described the trip to the United States of Gov. Amado Espino Jr. that began November 4 until the 22nd.

Espino left the reins of the provincial government in the hands of Vice Governor Marlyn Primicias Agabas as acting governor and the latter’s husband, Provincial Board Member Tyrone Agabas, as acting vice governor.
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PANGASINAN DAY

LINGAYEN-It will be a special non-working public holiday in the province on November 12, to observe Pangasinan Day, in lieu of November 13, to commemorate the 111th birthday anniversary of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez.

Governor Amado Espino Jr., had written Malacañang asking permission to move the non-working holiday to Monday to enable students, pupils, teachers, workers in public and private offices a long-weekend vacation.
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DAGUPAN City and Milpitas City in California, USA have renewed their sisterhood pact with the signing of a new memorandum of agreement on October 16 in Milpitas City.

The signing between Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and Milpitas City Mayor Jose Esteves, a native of Dagupan, was done at Milpitas City Hall.
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THE New Year’s celebration may still be almost two months away, but the Dagupan City Fire Marshal has began issuing warnings to firecracker manufacturers following a related incident recently.

A fire cracker explosion triggered by still lighted cigarette butts on November 2 caused injury and third degree burns to a firecracker producer.
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EXPERTS working on a sanitation project aim to make Dagupan a city free of water-borne diseases.

Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, team leader of the Swiss-funded Sustainable Sanitation in East Asia (Philippines) project, said their hope is “to see Dagupan City free of intestinal parasites, significant lowering of gastro enteritis and clear waterways as well as for 100 per cent of the residents to have access to safe drinking water system”.
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SEVENTY more graduates from the University of Luzon became professionals when they passed separate licensure examinations given by the Professional Regulations Commission.

Fifty one passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers. Of these, 25 graduated with a degree in Bachelor in Elementary Education (BEED) and 26 others in Bachelor in Secondary Education.
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