MALASIQUI, Pangasinan - Eight municipalities and one city in the Ilocos Region have established their own Barangay Employment Services Office (BESO) to help facilitate job seeking for the residents in their communities. In a phone interview on Tuesday, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Ilocos Region information officer Justin Marbella said the eight municipalities are Infanta, Mangatarem, Sual, Urbiztondo and Villasis in Pangasinan, as well as Bacnotan and Naguilian in La Union, and Bacarra in Ilocos Norte. The one city that has its own BESO is Alaminos in Pangasinan, he added. "This is an initiative of the Public Employment Services Office (PESO) starting in 2021," Marbella said. PESO focal person Dionne Cleo Cruz, in a separate interview, urged other local government units to establish their own BESO as well. "We encourage this so we could facilitate the delivery of PESO services to the barangays," Cruz said. DOLE Ilocos regional director Exequiel Ronie Gu