DAGUPAN CITY – While international media groups and the Arroyo Administration debate the true state of Philippine media, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has made known his own assessment. “The Philippine media is facing the “ABC curse”: Anxiety, Bribery and Corruption,” was how he described the media environment. Cruz, himself a…
The city government’s Oplan Zero-Drowning implemented along the beach of Bonuan Tondaligan Park during the recent observance of the Holy Week season and Pista’y Dayat was a success. No single drowning incident was reported. “No untoward incidents happened during the influx of big crowds of people that came to the…
STO. TOMAS – It’s a long way from Sto. Tomas, Pangasinan to Mission Hills in California, USA but cyberspace has made it possible for communities to reach out to each other regardless of physical distance between them. Anacleto Arciaga, a retired US Navy personnel now working part-time service officer in…
LINGAYEN – While the police are beginning to believe that the EZ-2 and STL are partly responsible for the resurgence of jueteng in the province, Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino still maintains that the Small Town Lottery (STL) is the best alternative to jueteng. “Jueteng can be put permanently to an…
BINMALEY – A town councilor is hard put in explaining his absence during the voluntary drug-testing for officials and employees. “I am not evading the drug test conducted last week,” said Councilor Michael Angelo Fernandez. “I was not in my office that day due to some appointments in line with…
CASES have been filed against six persons for theft of communications cable in two occasions in Dagupan City, according to the police. Sr. Inspector Onofre Tabangin, chief of the PNP investigation division, said four of the suspects were arrested last April 20 and two others last May 5. In the…
LINGAYEN – The province’s cops have reluctantly said their goodbyes to manual typewriters and antiquated communication systems. They have been ordered to embrace and greet the onset of information technology and advanced computers “hello”. In time, police stations will be manned by “high-tech cops” fully conversant with software applications and…
ALAMINOS CITY – Anyone for a P40,000 kilawen clam seafood meal? A Taiwanese tourist who takes seafood as an aphrodisiac found himself paying for his most expensive meal yet because he chose to eat a giant clam protected by law at the Hundred Islands National Park. Tsoa Kuang-Chih, temporarily residing…
SAN CARLOS CITY – Barely a month before schools formally start the school year, majority of parents are now in a quandary over how they can continue to keep their children in school. Officers and members of various parents and teachers community associations (PTCA) here aired this common dilemma as…
ALAMINOS CITY–Alaminos City – Thousands of job-seekers queued up to file their applications during a jobs fair sponsored by the city government recently. Councilor Carol Dizon-Sison, chair of the committee on labor and trade in the city council, said the jobs fair was undertaken to help reduce unemployment and curb…
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