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==Another foreign cruise ship docks at Hundred Islands==
*Source: http://punch.dagupan.com/articles/news/2015/05/another-foreign-cruise-ship-docks-at-hundred-islands/
*Sunday, May 31, 2015
:By Johanne Macob
ALAMINOS CITY— The world-famous Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) has arrived as a major tourist destination. It is now a regular destination for foreign cruise programs.
Last week, for the seventh time, another foreign cruise ship docked here and its passengers and crew toured the Islands.
MS Caledonian Sky, a European cruise ship, with around 100 passengers, docked at the HINP last May 21, as part of their 11-day world tour.
The cruise ship, part of the Noble Caledonian Sky ships, launched in May 2012, sails to the world’s most captivating destinations, including Iceland, the Arctic, Norway, the British Isles, North America, South /Central America and the Pacific.
It has 77 crewmembers and 66 of which are Filipinos.
In his Facebook account, City Mayor Arthur Celeste welcomed the Ship Captain Håkan Gustaesson and his more than 100 passengers on board MS Caledonian Sky and thanked them for the inclusion of Alaminos City on their 11-day tour.
Martin Limsiaco, chief officer of the cruise ship, said the ship will visit again next year.
Other cruise ships that visited the Islands in the previous months included the MS Europa that brought 250 European and Asian passengers and the six-star cruise ship Seabourn Sojourn with over 700 onboard guests and crews.
According to city tourism officer, Sol Tablang, the arrival of more foreign tourists is a boon to the city’s tourism industry.
Tablang said development and innovations at the islands are continuing to add more activities. The newest addition is the holding of Zumba for visitors’ wellness. he said.
Other activities at the Hundred Islands already include zipline, rappelling, wall climbing, and water sports activities namely helmet diving, snorkeling, diving, and kayaking.
==Local, foreign buyers queue up to buy Dagupan Bangus==
*Source: http://punch.dagupan.com/articles/news/2015/05/local-foreign-buyers-queue-up-to-buy-dagupan-bangus/
*Saturday, May 30, 2015
:By Joseph C. Bacani (CIO)
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS
DAGUPAN CITY – Local and foreign visitors queued to buy and have a taste of the world’s tastiest milkfish at the International Food Exhibition (IFEX) 2015 held at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City on May 21-24.
“The visitors had only one word to describe our Dagupan bangus, that word is “delicious!” said Mayor Belen T. Fernandez who joined Bangus Industry Development Program coordinator, Sharon M. Maramba, in receiving Dagupan bangus buyers at the IFEX on May 23.
A surprise best seller was the suman pinipig of Mamita’s of Barangay Mangin which two Australian visitors, Joseph and Linda Elvis, enjoyed eating and called it ‘sticky rice’.
The products were Dagupan certified. The producers, most of whom are housewives of small fisherfolk, trained and attended seminars to earn an accreditation.
The local producers that participated the IFEX event were: Jabez Peanut Bites, Ciudad Bangusan, Lisa Seafood Products, Mamita’s kakanin ATBP., Catalina Food Processor, Felly’s Fish Products, Nana Cion Fish Products, LBV Processed Fish, Noreen Fish Products and Pugaro Fish Products.
“Joining the IFEX is one of our marketing strategies in promoting our Dagupan bangus including a number of our local products in the city like the suman malagkit, monamon, banana chips, dried fish like the espada or pingka of Barangay Pugaro,” said Fernandez.
Fernandez also commended Maramba for spearheading the four-day exhibit.
==Mountain bike race in Mangaldan, June 6==
*Source: http://punch.dagupan.com/articles/news/2015/05/mountain-bike-race-in-mangaldan-june-6/
*Friday, May 29, 2015
: By JAG Jr.
PANGASINAN’s mountain bike enthusiasts hit the dirt road anew when the IBP Pangasinan Mountain Bike Challenge unfolds on June 6 at Barangay Nibaliw of Mangaldan town.
The event, also dubbed as “Bike the Dike,” organized by Integrated Bar of the Philippines Pangasinan Chapter in cooperation with Philippine National Police Mangaldan office, will be conducted in six categories, open, newbie, ladies, executive, open relay and mixed relay with cash prizes and medals are up for grabs in each division.
According to Mangaldan Chief of Police Supt. Jack Candelario, Mangaldan, registration fee is P450 and free t-shirt will be given to all participants. Interested contestants should register with the Mangaldan Police Station office.
==DILG grants P7-M performance challenge fund to Pangasinan==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1941432716790/dilg-grants-p7-m-performance-challenge-fund-to-pangasinan
*Thursday, May 28, 2015
:By April M. Montes (MCA/AMM/PIA-1, Pangasinan)
DAGUPAN CITY, May 28 (PIA) – The province of Pangasinan will receive a Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) worth P7-million from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for passing the 2014 Good Financial Housekeeping (GFH), a component of the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG).
Pangasinan was also one of the passers of the 2012 Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH).
The SGH is a program of DILG that gives incentives to provinces, cities and municipalities that passed the areas of transparency, accountability, planning and fiscal management.
Last year, the DILG has scaled-up further its performance metrics through the SGLG contained in Memorandum Circular 2014-39 dated March 24, 2014 entitled 2014 Seal of Good Local Governance: Pagkilala sa Katapatan at Kahusayan ng Pamahalaang Lokal which remains as one of the core assessment areas of the New Seal where Pangasinan has been a consistent GFH passer for two consecutive assessment years which is in 2012 and 2014.
In a report of the Provincial Information Office, Assistant Provincial Engineer Tonette Delos Santos said the P7-million PCF will be used for the asphalting of the Pao-Pozorrubio roadline in Pozorrubio town.
The road is a provincial roadline that connects the municipalities of Manaoag and Pozorrubio, Binalonan and San Jacinto. It is also an alternate route for visitors of the Minor Basilica of Manaoag.
Delos Santos said the asphalting of at least 1.709 kilometer stretch from Barangay Dilan, Manaoag to Barangay Malasin, Pozorrubio will shorten travel time, improve the accessibility of commuters, farmers, traders and visitors, aside from providing support to the agricultural and tourism development thrusts of the provincial government.
The project is also expected to directly benefit at least 28, 000 local residents and stimulate more economic, commercial and tourism activities.
Delos Santos said the PCF will be used solely for the cost of asphalt materials for the blocktopping of the Pao-Pozorrubio road while the provincial government will provide for the manpower needs, equipment, and fuel as its counterpart.
==National greening summit set in Pangasinan==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/411432519657/national-greening-summit-set-in-pangasinan
*Wednesday, May 27, 2015
:By Venus May H. Sarmiento (MCA/VHS/PIA1-Pangasinan)
DAGUPAN CITY, May 27 (PIA) -  A regional summit on the National Greening Program (NGP) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for Local Government Units and People’s Organization is set on June 3-5 in Lingayen, Pangasinan.
Officer- In-Charge Regional Director Paquito Moreno, Jr.  of the DENR in the Ilocos said the summit aims to enhance the implementation of the NGP and associated major programs and projects of DENR and will also serve as a venue for sharing success stories and lessons learned during program implementation.
“The summit also aims to identify action plans for improved accomplishments for the forest rehabilitation program established,” Moreno said.
This year’s summit will revolve on the theme: “Addressing the Challenges of the National Greening Program in the Ilocos Region: Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.”
The  NGP is a project considered  as a climate change mitigation strategy which seeks to enhance the country’s forest areas and also designed to reduce poverty by providing alternative livelihood activities such as seedling production and maintenance of planted trees.
=='Bangus' branding is Dagupan's response to ASEAN integration challenge==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=11&rid=765645
*Tuesday, May 26, 2015
:(PNA), LAP/LVM/LVMICUA/RMA
DAGUPAN CITY, May 26 (PNA) -- The branding or tagging of "bangus" (milkfish) produced from the fishponds of Dagupan is the city's response to the big challenge posed by the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) integration that will start this year.
This was bared by City Agriculturist Emma Molina who admitted that the tagging of the Dagupan Bangus with the label "Dagupan Certified Product", although launched last week, remains in its early promotional stage.
"We are now tagging milkfish being brought outside Dagupan and more if we are through with our promotional stage", said Molina one week after the label was introduced.
Right now, the city is still awaiting the approval of the registration of the label with the Intellectual Property Rights Office (IPRO) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to ensure that Dagupan can lay claim to that label "Dagupan Certified Product" and never to be duplicated or copied somewhere else.
This label was already introduced and launched when Dagupan City showcased some of its native products in the International Food Exposition (IFEX) May 21 to 25 at SMX Mall of Asia which was graced by dignitaries, including diplomats who participated in the recent Asia Pacific Economic Conference at Mall of Asia in Manila.
Molina said bangus branding is the culmination of the long efforts of the city government led by Mayor Belen Fernandez to promote its number one agricultural product, bangus, in the national and international markets.
But the biggest beneficiaries to this marketing strategy are the unrelenting producers who must now get better returns of their investment after the Dagupan bangus, although tastier and fleshier, were priced similarly with products produced in other areas of the country and even in Pangasinan.
"We are positioning bangus so that it can compete with the same products brought to the markets by fish farmers from other areas in the Philippines and Pangasinan," said Molina, explaining the rationale for branding local milkfish.
The only way that we can make Dagupan Bangus special is the branding process so that it can be known, seen and tasted by those people who often hear about this but had no chance to buy the product, Molina added.
She said that branding has long been conceptualized but it only came to actual fruition when Mayor Fernandez came to power, when she asked the city council to pass an ordinance (No. 2028-2015) which became the legal basis for such marketing strategy.
Asked if the price of bangus will become unaffordable to ordinary consumers if the product carries the label "Certified Dagupan Product", Molina said the cost of tagging with the use of a tagging gun owned by the city government is 50 centavos per piece, which is the only add-on cost to the commodity.
Not only fresh or blast frozen Dagupan Bangus will carry the label but also deboned marinated and smoked milkfish and also those placed in cans and bottles as well as "relyenong bangus" and other product produced by home industries in Dagupan, said Molina, citing the products brought by Dagupan to IFEX which became among the best sellers.
==Dagupan sending 520 scholars to college this year==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=765432
*Monday, May 25, 2015
:(PNA), LAP/LVMICUA/LVMICUA/RMA
DAGUPAN CITY, May 25 (PNA) -- The city government will award 525 college scholarships for the coming school year to deserving students from poor families who passed the criteria set by the city government.
Mayor Belen Fernandez invited the scholars and their parents to receive their scholarship grants in a ceremony on Monday at the CSI Stadia when she spoke during a program at the city plaza after the flag-raising ceremony on Monday.
The scholars will be enrolled either at the Lyceum Northwestern University, University of Luzon, University of Pangasinan Phinma, Colegio de Dagupan or the Pangasinan Maritime Academy (PAMA).
The city government will shoulder their tuition and other school fees and will maintain their scholarships provided they will earn good grades in all their subjects till they graduate.
Fernandez congratulated the scholars and their parents who are happy their children can now go to college with the help of the city government as they cannot afford the high cost of college education.
She said the city government is investing for the education of children as they may someday take over the reins of the city government.
==(Feature) Dagupan steps up preparations for possible tsunami==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=764935
*Sunday, May 24, 2015
:By Lilia M. Micua [(PNA), SCS/LVM/LVMICUA/RMA]
DAGUPAN CITY, May 24 (PNA) -- A small city, only 50 square kilometers in area, Dagupan is earning plaudits from all over the country for giving premium and recognizing the value of preparation.
Today, Dagupan is possibly the only city outside Metro Manila zealously preparing for nature's fury such as earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, storm surges and floods, taking a lesson from the earthquake of July 16, 1990 that put the whole city to its knees in seconds.
While officials and the people of Metro Manila are now pre-occupied in preparing for the coming of what experts call the "Big One" where in their estimate, some 37,000 people might die and scores of others injured, the city of Dagupan, some 240 kilometers north of Manila, is doing a parallel activity in coordination with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Noting reports from Phivolcs that in case the Manila Trench fault line located some 250 kilometers off Bolinao into the West Philippine Sea that runs from north to south moves at 8 magnitude, it can generate a powerful tsunami as high as seven meters in Dagupan City alone, the city government created an office called Public Alert Response and Monitoring Center (PARMC).
PARMC is a special office dedicated to put the people in the city on their feet once a strong earthquake, especially emanating from the West Philippine Sea, strikes.
The West Valley Fault that runs 100 kilometers across Bulacan, Metro Manila, Laguna and Cavite may be capable of generating a force strong enough to bring incalculable damages if it movers at 7 to 8 magnitude. But it may be felt at lesser magnitude in Dagupan as the West Valley Fault and the Manila Trench are not interconnected.
That is why, it is the Manila Trench in the West Philippine Sea which the people of Dagupan and Pangasinan fear more and are preparing for than the West Valley Fault.
PARMC is a brainchild of Mayor Belen Fernandez who formed the office right after Phivolcs conducted a Rapid Earthquake Disaster Assessment System (REDAS) and pointed to the dangers posed by the Manila Trench fault line, along the coastal areas of Pangasinan, including Dagupan.
Placed side by side with the office of the City Disaster Risk and Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) for easier coordination, PARMC is tasked to perform its mandate of alerting the people of the city in case of a big earthquake that may be needing evacuation to higher grounds.
PARMC is basically a technical and scientific office working under the Office of the City Mayor to provide the mayor what is called decision support system for whatever questions she may want to be answered relative to Risk Reduction and Disaster Mitigation, said Professor Nick Melecio, chief of PARMC.
With high tech computers and maps it is using, intensity meter installed by Philvolcs as well as the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera of the city with which it was asked to administer, PARMC is doing the monitoring 24/7.
Its personnel are still wide awake when most of the city's population are already in deep slumber.
"It is flooding and earthquake damage which are our expertise," said Melecio, pointing out that the 17 CCTV cameras installed in the city's central business district and the approaches of the new Pantal Bridge were given additional application for flood tracking.
He said all roads where there are CCTV cameras will be given flood scales and when these are captured by CCTV cameras, it could determine right away the height of the flood in these areas.These are valuable inputs that could be used by the decision-makers, the city executive and relief agencies, in assisting the flood victims, reminding that Dagupan is flood-prone city.
On the possibility of a seven-meter high tsunami that may come in case the Manila Trench moves at magnitude 8, the city will soon build a four-storey evacuation center in Barangay Salapingao with the help of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).
This will replace a man-made tsunami hill proposed by the past city administration in another island village of Pugaro which was phased out as soon as the new city administration took over for being impractical as it would be located only few meters from the sea.
"Imagine, residents would run towards the sea to meet the coming tsunami and not run away from it, said Mayor Fernandez, ruling out the project which was already started with the construction of the man-made tsunami hill's base.
She said the four-storey evacuation center will be in Barangay Salapingau and not in Pugaro since the latter is linked to the town of Binmaley by a bridge where residents can run to in case of tsunami to save themselves.Meanwhile, PARMC initiated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between 565 owners of high-rise buildings and the city mayor so that in case of tsunami these buildings can be used as Privately-Hosted Evacuation Centers (PHEC). ,
Saying that this is not enough, Mayor Fernandez ordered the CDRRMO headed by Ronald de Guzman to draw up an evacuation route to the south for Dagupan residents escaping from tsunami.
At the same time, some 600 children of the estimated 7,000 in the city, have already been given free swimming lesson at the Dagupan City's Olympic-size swimming pool so that in case of a big flood, they can save themselves and their families.
Earthquake and flood drills were intensified in schools and communities in a bid to teach people what to do in case of disasters.
==Thefts a concern in Pangasinan schools as start of classes nears==
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/491854/news/regions/thefts-a-concern-in-pangasinan-schools-as-start-of-classes-nears
*Saturday, May 23, 2015 5:03 pm
:By Joel Locsin / LBG (GMA News)
With school to start in about a week's time, authorities in Pangasinan are looking for ways to protect schools from thieves.
Police had recorded several thefts in public schools in the province in past months, GMA Dagupan reported.
"Nag-meeting na nga kami diyan, kami ng mga schools superintendent(s). Dapat diyan mag-hire sila ng mga security guards, meron naman silang MOOE (maintenance and other operating expenses). Dapat may security guard sila, o kaya yung may janitor sila, sabay bantay na rin," said Pangasinan governor Amado Espino Jr.
For its part, the Department of Education Pangasinan 2 division said its MOOE may not be enough to hire security guards for the schools.
The DepEd noted the amount of the MOOE depends on the number of students in a school.
"Hindi ho kakayanin ng eskwelahan lang. Kaya nakiki[usap] kami ng tulong sa mga (local government units) like sa mga barangays para katuwang ng aming barangays is yung mga barangay kagawads," said schools division superintendent for Pangasinan 2 Atty. Donato Balderas.
For his part, Mangaldan police head Superintendent Jackie Candelario urged Parent-Teacher Associations to add security features like grills and padlocks.
Those who can afford it can invest in closed-circuit television systems, he added.
"Isangguni din sa kanilang PTA members magdagdag ng security features katulad ng mga grills na kung saan hindi agad-agad napapasok katulad ng mga padlocks, kung kakayanin ng mga magulang ay bibili ng CCTV," Candelario said.
==521 Pangasinan scholars receive allowance==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=764562
*Friday, May 22, 2015
:(PNA), LAP/LVM/JOHANNE MARGARETTE R. MACOB/RMA
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, May 22 (PNA) -- At least 521 students from the first congressional district in the province received P3,000 each under the joint scholarship program of the provincial government and the Office of the First Congressional District.
During an awarding ceremony held at the Provincial Training and Development Center, Lingayen, Board Member Amado Espino III, who represented the Governor in the event, said the scholarship assistance is but another proof of the importance the Espino administration is giving to youth development.
He then challenged the scholars to devote their achievement, particularly through their education, to their families and respective communities.
“"This is a good opportunity to uplift oneself and family and to help the barangays," he intoned.
According to the provincial information office, the Espino administration has a total of 2,240 scholars. These are 1,250 provincial scholars enrolled at the Pangasinan State University; 405 Provincial Scholarship Fund Board (PSFB) academic scholars, 30 National Commission on Indigenous peoples (NCIP) scholars, and 12 Federation of Pangasinan Muslim Association (FPMA) scholars.
The academic scholars, who qualified through an examination, are set to receive P8,000 financial grant per semester or twice every academic year.
Under the PSFB scholarship program, students get to choose which schools and which four-year or five-year degree course they would like to enroll in.
However, to continue receiving the scholarship assistance until graduation, the scholars need to maintain a minimum general weighted average of 85 percent, except for highly technical courses like engineering, architecture, and accounting that only require a minimum grade of 82 percent.
==Nat’l Fishery Congress gears eyes ASEAN competitiveness==
*Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/411432180406/nat-l-fishery-congress-gears-eyes-asean-competitiveness
*Thursday, May 21, 2015
:By Venus May H. Sarmiento  (MCA/VHS/PIA1-Pangasinan)
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, May 21 (PIA) – Fishery industry leaders from across the Philippines convened in Pangasinan for  a three-day National Fishery Producers’ Congress geared towards competitiveness in the economic integration for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Eduardo Maramba,  national president of the Philippine Association of Fish Producers, Inc. (PAFPI), said the congress which began on Tusday (May 19) aims to pursue the fishery industry's full development.
“An  advanced fishery industry calls for shared responsibility and sacrifices that is why PAFPI  makes every effort to help the fishery industry attain status as a strong player and a world economic order where trade barriers are torn down,” Maramba said at the Sison Auditorium  in Lingayen town.
The three-day Congress looked into modern methods for maximizing production and enlarging the market of marine products worldwide. It also served as an informative, innovative and comprehensive approach for the fishing business to position the fishery industry towards competitiveness under the ASEAN economic  integration as stated in the theme, Maramba added.
Maramba said PAPFI will come up with a resolution pushing for the campaign against illegal fishing, intensification of  technological researches, massive dredging of rivers, creation of the Department of Fishery and Aquatic Resources and a resolution seeking the granting of a subsidy  by the government to the industry.
The Pangasinan provincial government, represented by Vice Governor Ferdinand Calimlim, welcomed the participants to the Congress and said that the Philippines is one nation that has the best of everything.
“Our fishery industry  is very rich which is the reason why other countries like Korea, Taiwan, China and Vietnam are lured, but everything will go to waste if we will not  work together and not help each other,” Calimlim said.
Aside from lectures and workshops on investment opportunities in the fishery sector and regulatory requirement for fishery products, the delegates from Luzon,  Visayas and Mindanao  were treated to a cultural presentation and a field trip to the Minor Basilica in Manaoag town and  the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City.
==BFAR lauds Dagupan's bangus branding==
==BFAR lauds Dagupan's bangus branding==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=763612
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=763612
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