A VOLUNTEER broadcast journalist who worked under Sixth District Board Member Ranjit Shahani has filed a complaint on Friday against his former boss before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Lingayen. Cesar Mendoza of San Carlos City, a volunteer for Aksyon Radio, accused Shahani of estafa, falsification of public…
TWO employees of the Dagupan City government and another person caught using illegal drugs were arrested by the police for drug use in the afternoon of July 26 in a house on Fernandez Street. Supt. Romeo Caramat Jr, city police chief, identified the arrested persons as Perfecto Velasquez Jr., 50,…
NEW CAMPAIGN VS. LOOSE FIREARMS LINGAYEN—Newly-installed Police Provincial Officer-in-Charge Mariano Luis Verzosa has launched a new campaign against loose firearms as part of the program to minimize crimes, especially those perpetrated by motorcycle-riding-in-tandem hitmen (MRTH). Verzosa said the campaign is directed against criminal elements, private armed groups and other threat…
KEY TO THE CITY—Milpitas City Mayor Jose Esteves presents a Key to the city to Dagupan Councilor Maybelyn dela Cruz- Fernandez during her U.S. trip last May 2012 to study the Milpitas Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) as authorized by the Department of Interior and Local Government. Fernandez recently authored Draft…
FIFTH District Rep. Kimi Cojuangco is optimistic that the fate of the long-overdue law on reproductive health will be decided by August this year following President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s subtle endorsement of the proposed law in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week. Cojuangco, one of the…
THE Dagupan City government is looking into the construction of high-rise school buildings to address the growing school population and land requirements in all public elementary and secondary schools in the city. Mayor Benjamin S. Lim, addressing the mass induction of the new set of officers of the Bolosan Elementary…
THE Maritime division of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Pangasinan recently acquired a new motorized banca using funds raised during the Bangus Festival “Takbo sa Karagatan” Fun Run last April 26. Senior Superintendent Genesis Tolejano, PNP Maritime Group Chief Operations Management Division head, said the boat, powered by Briggs…
LINGAYEN–A search and rescue operation is continuing for two fishermen from Bolinao town who were lost in the West Philippine Sea when Typhoon Ferdie lashed out last July 20. The two were identified by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) as Rogelio Canayon, 35, and Levi Caballero,…
LINGAYEN—Municipal and barangay officials attended on July 26 and 27 a Capacity Building Workshop for a cost-effective local tsunami warning system for selected high-risk coastal communities in the country. The workshop was organized by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) in cooperation with the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction…
ROSALES-Abono Party-list Chairman Rosendo So has challenged the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to “name names” behind the continued smuggling of rice into the country even as he lauded the agency’s intensified efforts to stop the illegal activity. So praised BOC Commissioner Rufino Biazon for the agency’s recent confiscation of 45,000bags…
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