BINMALEY’S TOURISM TREAT BINMALEY–It’s time for this town, known as the Fish Bowl of Pangasinan, to take center stage. The first-ever “Bingalo tan Malaga” (prawns and siganid) festival will be staged during the town fiesta celebration on February 2. Municipal Councilor Leo Urmaza who heads the festival committee said…
THE Jazy Garcia- sponsored Pangasinan cycling squad called “Pitaki Boyz” led by 2003 Tour Pilipinas first runner-up Elmo Ramos, Jr., bagged the top five positions of the open category of the 3rd Deogracias Dee Memorial Cycling Circuit Classic held last January 14 at Clark Field, Pampanga. The Tarlac City born…
THE San Fabian bikefest scheduled to be staged on January 22 in conjunction with the celebration of its town fiesta was cancelled because of financial constraint and the hectic schedules of the town’s chief executive. But thanks to councilor Roland Z. Villegas, his timely intervention, the event was held without…
LINGAYEN–Policemen are not security guards. This was emphasized by Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt Alan Purisima who said it is wrong for establishments to just rely on the policemen to guard their establishments. He made this statement in the face of the robbery committed by supposed members of acetylene gang…
MANGALDAN—Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Arturo Lomibao wants to make the “world-class” police station here, his hometown, as the model in the whole country. Lomibao, who arrived for inauguration of the newly-refurbished police station last week, said he wants to make a difference in the lives of the…
LINGAYEN- The campaign versus gambling machines is risking police effectiveness in its other missions. This appears to be the sentiment of Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima when he said the campaign against the poor man’s slot machines called “hataw”, including its cousin fruit game, “ameneng“, “is draining the…
LINGAYEN– Watch out for the creation of the fifth city in Pangasinan possibly this year. The Sangguniang Bayan is set to file a resolution expressing the town officials” intent for the cityhood status, the first step towards cityhood. According to Mayor Ernesto Castañeda Jr., after the bills passage it…
DAGUPAN CITY—’Don’t blame us’. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, the country’s top anti-jueteng crusader, gave this message to people displaced by jueteng stoppage. Cruz said in a statement in his website that,” It is definitely not the anti-jueteng people who neither used nor made any money through them. And it is…
LINGAYEN–After the “Pacman-Paquiao” fever, it will be the “PRISAA fever” that will enthuse Pangasinenses and private schools in the country in the week ahead. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will keynote the opening of 2006 Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) national games to be held in Dagupan City and various other…
AS ALTERNATIVE LANDFILL Dumped on private lot SAN JACINTO–Unknown to many, it appears that more than 1,000 truck loads of decomposed and semi-decomposed wastes have been moved from the garbage dumpsite in Bonuan to a private property in barangay Macayug here since September last year. All these were deposited on…
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