Nursing as a vocation By Hilda Austria NURSING as a profession has never been a choice for me because, firstly their uniform easily gets dirty, secondly I don’t like seeing blood and third, I don’t think I have the patience to bear strangers pains due to illness and their family’s…
THE ABORTED HALO-HALO ESCAPADE. It’s during the love month when lovers are most expressive in their emotions. And two lovers, both school principals but assigned to different schools in the third district, already in their past 40s, would not want to be left behind and set their secret date. They…
WAR VS ILLEGAL DRUGS THE war vs. illegal drugs and the syndicates is on and the province’s chief executive is in the frontline directing the campaign. Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. said the campaign against illegal drugs in Pangasinan is now moving in high gear in all fronts, himself monitoring and supervising the…
LINGAYEN– Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. will spell out in detail the gains made by the provincial government in 2014 when he delivers the State of the Province Address (SOPA) on February 16, at the Capitol Complex before the the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. It will be Gov. Espino’s 8th SOPA before he completes…
PANGASINAN’S ‘FALLEN 44’ HEROES THE provincial government of Pangasinan is giving P200,000 as financial assistance each to the bereaved families of the two Police Special Action Force (SAF) commandos from Pangasinan, among the 44 who died in the Mamasapano, Maguindanao incident last Jan. 25. The financial assistance will be given…
INQUIRY ON FALLEN 44 LINGAYEN—The need to ferret out the truth in both senate and congressional inquiries is imperative but end the blame game. This was echoed by Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil and added that justice can only be served by the truth behind the merciless killing of SAF’s…
GUARANTEE OF ADDED-VALUE SOON households all over the country and abroad can be sure that the bangus they are buying is their favorite ‘Dagupan bangus’ from the Bangus Capital of the World. By virtue of an ordinance recently passed by the city’s sanggunian panlungsod, only bangus raised in Dagupan fishponds…
BASISTA—A businesswoman who ran and lost in the 2013 election was declared by the Commission on Elections as “the duly elected mayor of Basista, Pangasinan” in a decision of the poll body on January 27. The new mayor is Jocelyn O. Perez who won in her petition before the Comelec for the…
RAMPANT FRAUDULENT CLAIMS A fact-finding team of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has already filed administrative and criminal complaints before the Ombudsman against nine employees of PhilHealth Region 1 for processing fraudulent claims that defrauded the government, in this case, PhilHealth, estimated to top P10 million. This was bared…
SUPPORT FOR THE TEAM — The Balon Dagupan team bound for the Region 1 Athletic Association (R1AA) Meet receive their cash allowances, uniforms and new sports equipment for each event from the city government under the ‘Building the Future in Developing Our Excellence in Sports’ program of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. City Administrator Farah…
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