War on jueteng, a.k.a jai-alai FOR eight long years, jueteng operators in Pangasinan found a very convenient cover for their illegal operations – Meridien Vista Gaming Corporation’s jai-alai off-fronton operations. For too long, the province’s town and city mayors, in complicit with the Pangasinan police, pulled the wool over their…

Collateral damage THE impact of the intensified police operations against illegal drugs has began to take its toll on many Muslim families that have since migrated to Pangasinan, beginning in the mid-1980s, particularly in the cities of Urdaneta and Dagupan. Many of these families, mostly residents of communities that have…

Payback time FOR too long, a number of mayors and barangay kapitans in Pangasinan have lorded it over their communities, poisoning them with impunity. For too long, they fed their constituents with illegal drugs, confident that they will never be made to account for their evil deeds. Well, the time…

Bigger problems ahead IT is not our intention to rain on the parade of the Provincial Anti-Drug Advisory Council that predicted a drug-free Pangasinan in six months but it must be told that such a prediction at this time is only self-serving, and doesn’t add to confidence building. The PADAC…

A challenge to Guv and mayors THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office has completed the drug testing of its ranks. The effort was followed by Mangaldan Mayor Bonafe Parayno two weeks ago, ordering all department heads and their staff to undergo drug testing. Then Gov. Amado Espino III has said as…