URDANETA CITY—The Small Town Lottery (STL) operation in Pangasinan hopes to finally eradicate the jueteng, the old yet popular illegal numbers’ game that survived numerous attempts by government and church to stop it. Lyn Ang, representative of Golden Go Rapid Gaming Corporation, the lone franchisee of STL in Pangasinan, told…
PEACE & ORDER IN BARANGAYS MEMBERS of the Barangay Peace Action Team (BPAT) in the city’s 31 barangays, clustered into six groups, were given a one-day training/seminar by the Dagupan City Police Station on their peacekeeping duties at the city museum on September 11-14. P/ Superintendent Franklin O. Ortiz said…
Dagupan PNP conducts peacekeeping seminar
THE members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) asked the city government to give self-confessed drug personalities who completed rehabilitation program the highest priority for opportunity to be employed in the city’s infrastructure projects being implemented. The recommendation was contained in a resolution authored by Councilor Dennis Canto. It said that…
Rehabilitated drug-users endorsed to city hall for jobs
AS always, everyone points to everyone to be blamed but themselves when push comes to shove. This was the case when the Sangguniang Panlalawigan conducted its inquiry in aid of legislation last week on the reported dumping of garbage along the Lingayen-Binmaley Baywalk project. Present at the inquiry were the…
SP alarmed by garbage dumping along Baywalk
A TOTAL of 546 classrooms costing seventy percent of the P400 million budget allocated in 2016 have been completed and delivered by the 2nd and 4th Engineering Districts in Pangasinan. DPWH District Engineer Rodolfo Dion said the classrooms are already occupied by Junior and Senior High School students of the…
Earthquake-resilient school buildings to rise in Pangasinan
DAGUPAN CITY— The clergy of Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, including the faithful from various sectors, celebrated their synod, assembly, under the grieving shadow of the more than 13,000 countrymen who have been killed in the anti-drug campaign. This was pointed out by Archbishop Socrates Villegas in his post-synodal message issued on September…
Archdiocese’s 2nd synod offers ‘communio’ as alternative
IT will take more than pictures to convince Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) that finally a serious campaign against smuggling of agricultural products is on. This was the reaction of SINAG Chair Rosendo So to claims that more smuggled products are now being intercepted by the Bureaus of Customs. So…
SINAG to BOC: File cases vs. smugglers
POULTRY raisers seriously affected by reports of avian influenza last month are beginning to recover from their losses. This was confirmed by Rosendo So, chairman of Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) during the KBP Forum Pangasinan chapter last Thursday. But he said there is a glut of oversized chicken in…
Sale of chicken back to normal, say
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) gave additional grace period to Pangasinan Solid North after noting that the civil case filed by Solid North against Victory Liner before Branch 41 of the Regional Trial Court for not allowing its buses to pass through a road lot at the back of its terminal…
Solid North given another grace period
CITY Agriculture Officer Emma J. Molina directed all motorboat owners operating either as fishing or passenger vessels to register with her office as required by City Ordinance No.1768, series of 2003, which regulates fishing activities in the city. It is also in compliance with E.O. 305 devolving to municipal and city…