REDISTRICTING LINGAYEN—The plan to redistrict the province from six to eight or ten legislative districts apparently has not caught fire among the present crop of legislators and this led a provincial board member to hurl a challenge to the men and women in congress. “The ball is now in your…
LET’S go back to work! This was the terse response of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. to local media’s queries about his next political agenda further explaining further his reasons for giving his blessings to his son Board Member Amado III also known as Pogi, to bid for the gubernatorial…
ROAD HAZARDS: DEAD TREES LINGAYEN—Portions of the highway along the Manila North Road (Rosales-Sison stretch) have been widened but there still remains one thing that needs to be done but can’t just easily be done – to remove all hazards to motorists According to District Engineer Emmanuel Diaz, he had…
URBIZTONDO–Being an employee of the secretary of justice must have its privileges. This appeared to be the case of Ronnie Dayan, reportedly a driver-bodyguard of DOJ Sec. Leila de Lima, who has not been charged after allegedly punching a policeman and threatening to kill a village watchman in Barangay Dalanguiring…
DEADLY RECKLESS IMPRUDENCE—-The lifeless bodies of the two motorcycle riders lay on the ground covered with a sheet while the police assess the other damages caused by the 10-wheeler dump truck that plowed into a house, after it collided with a delivery truck along the highway in Binmaley. The two…
BINMALEY— The collision of two trucks here early morning last Thursday was clearly a case of reckless imprudence on the part of drivers that resulted in the death of three persons and serious injuries to two others. Cases of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide, serious physical injuries and damage to…
Lingayen — Board Member Amado I. Espino, III, Liga ng mga Barangay provincial president, rallied students of the Pangasinan State University (PSU) to “lead in the moral and spiritual regeneration in their respective communities.” “You lead by example,” Espino III urged the students during the Acquaintance Ball and Induction Ceremony of…
2015 BUDGET DELIBERATIONS LINGAYEN—Being the vice chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations has its advantages. According to Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil, as vice chairman of the House committee on appropriations he has full and direct access to details of the budgets of the national agencies and…
By Venus May H. Sarmiento, PIA THEY live a life above the ground, literally. And, we are not referring to birds or planes. They are people-in the flesh. They are the linemen, the silent heroes of the power industry, particularly of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines. There was Radito Agas,…
MASS FOR IRAQ THE leader of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has requested his fellow bishops in the country to offer all their Masses on August 18 as Votive Mass for peace and reconciliation in Iraq. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, in a statement, described his suggested activity as “a gesture…
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