Cleaning the Bilibid prison By Bebot Villar TALAGANG serious si Justice Secretary Leila de Lima na linisin ang New Bilibid Prison (NBP). Last Tuesday, De Lima, accompanied by some congressmen, went to the NBP for the nth time kasi nalaman niya na ang illegal drugs operations inside the NBP…
Pangasinan chess By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNKNOWN perhaps to many sports fans here, our many Pangasinenses have become chess lovers over the last four years. The Pangasinan Chess League (PCL) under the leadership of Lingayen son Don Juan Vicente Sison as its president, and the provincial government headed by…
What I learned from SK By Hilda Austria SINCE no law has bee passed directing the postponement Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) election period, SK elections will now be held on February 28, 2015. As a former SK chairman, I am glad the election for the representatives of the youth sector will…
BCS RALLY. I was really dismayed at how the parents of pupils and the teachers at Buenlag Central School in Calasiao reacted against the school principal. They held a picket rally and even locked the school gate to prevent their children from attending their classes. I could’ve understood the staging…
DAGDAG-BAWAS BILLING OF PATIENTS LINGAYEN– An over-billing racket victimizing indigent patients including point-of-care- enrollees of the provincial government at the Manaoag Community Hospital was discovered by the capitol, and two of its employees were promptly charged. The two employees, whom the capitol did not name in its press release, are now…
NO STUDENT LEFT BEHIND—Sen Alan Cayetano may have set a record for the biggest “groufie shot” when he took this picture with his smartphone during his visit to the Pangasinan State University-Bayambang campus last week where he explained the provisions of the Iskolar ng Bayan law that he authored. All…
DAGUPAN City’s sanggunian panlungsod finally started the year with the passage of two ordinances that promises two long-term benefits to the city. The city council, during its regular session last January 13, adopted Ordinance No. 0-526 entitled “Institutionalizing Measures for the Promotion and Advancement of the Bangus Industry” and Ordinance No….
2015 DAGUPAN CITY BUDGET THE members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod agreed to start deliberation on the 2015 budget next week after they approved on January 13 the city’s Annual Investment Program, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) Plan and the Gender and Development program for 2015. Councilor…
THE drug syndicates again tried to be creative in peddling the illegal drug but the authorities were quick to catch on. The new tact, was discovered by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology’s (BJMP) District Jail in Dagupan that resulted in the filing of charges against the courier. Dagupan…
MALASIQUI— It appears that the touted all-out campaign of the provincial government to stop illegal drugs in the barangay is not being taken seriously by barangay officials. A barangay kagawad and his companion were arrested after authorities seized from them two big sachets of shabu and other drug paraphernalia and…
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