STARTING IT RIGHT—Gov. Amado Espino Jr. (2nd from left) welcomes new officer-in-charge police provincial director, P/SSupt. Sterling Raymund Blanco (2nd from right) at his office on last week, almost a month after former PSSupt. Marlou Chan was ordered by the police heirarchy to vacate the post without notice to the…
MARCHING ORDERS TO NEW P.D. LINGAYEN—The newly designated police provincial director in an officer-in-charge capacity hardly warmed his seat when he received his marching orders or the improvement of peace and order in the province from Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr.: Prioritize campaign vs. illegal drugs and solve killings by…
Stop illegal drug trade, HRIT
DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez warned that the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) risks facing a possible suit from the city government if it ignores her letter dated December 27, 2013 ordering the company to terminate their contract for the controversial electric meter located in the premises of the former MC Adore…
Dagupan ready to take Decorp to court
MEMBERS of the Pangasinan police force who were randomly chosen for a job aptitude test administered by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) scored low with just a 30 percent passing rate among the 300 examinees. Lawyer Monday Samson, Napolcom provincial director, said this means that while policemen in the province…
Pangasinan cops score low in aptitude test
ROSALES—Members of three farmer cooperatives in Pangasinan are ready to testify before the January 22 Senate hearing and identify the source of the smuggled rice that they are selling. Rosendo So, founding chairman of the Abono party-list based here, said he has already talked to the cooperatives and has convinced…
Local farmers to testify vs. rice smuggling – Abono
ALL’s well that ends well between a land owner and some 50 informal settlers in Sitio Suit, Barangay Pugaro after Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez interceded last Friday in their decade-old dispute that already led to the filing of counter-court suits. The informal settlers who settled in a private property were…
Belen settles Pugaro’s 10-year old land dispute
PANTAL RIVER INSPECTION—City officials led by Mayor Belen Fernandez and representatives of the Department of Public Works and Highways Region 1 led by Engr. Ricardo Mayo inspect the Pantal River up to its mouth in barangay Pugaro before resuming the dredging operations to declog the silted parts. (CIO photo by…
PANTAL RIVER INSPECTION
NEW boats for the Dagupan River Cruise will soon be plying the waters of Dawel. This was announced by Mayor Belen Fernandez during the KBP forum last Thursday and added that the construction of three boats for the project will be funded by donations to the city government she solicited…
Dagupan River Cruise back soon
MEASLES ADVISORY LINGAYEN—Pangasinenses have been advised by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) to avoid crowded places like malls amid concerns of a potential measles surge after two more confirmed cases were reported since the start of the year. Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, PHO chief, said their latest data…
Public told: Stay out of crowded places
FINANCIAL grants that were generously extended to various organizations by the previous Dagupan administration under Benjamin Lim, many of which have not been liquidated, has been stopped by the present city administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez. Fernandez, speaking during the KBP forum last week, said the groups were supposedly undertaking…