NO VIOLATION OF ANTI-GRAFT THE Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed for lack of probable cause and substantial evidence the complaints filed against Mayor Belen Fernandez and four other city officials by two contractors who charged that the city government refused to pay contracts entered into with former Mayor Benjamin…
MORE DEATHS REPORTED THE Provincial Health Office expressed alarm over increasing cases of dengue in the province, and seven have died so far. Dr. Ana de Guzman, provincial health officer said, there are now 1,280 newly recorded cases of dengue, representing a 20% increase from the 1,251 dengue cases last…
GOING, GOING, GONE – The billboard informing landowners along the De Venecia Highway in Barangay Pantal of the new deadline set for submitting offers to donate their land is largely ignored by passing Dagupan residents and motorists. The deadline is due to lapse on August 7 and still no formal offer has…
SAN NICOLAS — The clash between government troops and the New People’s Army (NPA) elements here last week was a temporary setback for the townsfolk but it’s business as usual here, the mayor said. Mayor Rebecca Saldivar made the announcement four days after the incident to assure her town mates that…
ANOTHER PANGASINAN HERO SAN NICOLAS – While video footages of the terror that the Maute group wreaked over Marawi City continue to alarm Filipinos, Pangasinenses were stunned to learn of the firefight in their own province between the police and the members of the New Peoples Army in this town last…
NPA ON THE OFFENSIVE? LINGAYEN—A policeman was killed and one wounded in a firefight with members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the mountain borders of Pangasinan-Benguet and Nueva Vizcaya. The lone fatality was PO2 Aries Tamondong and one member of the Regional Public Safety Battalion was wounded while…
ONE-TIME, BIG-TIME FOUR men were arrested and 11 sachets of shabu and several firearms and ammunition were seized during the One-Time, Big Time Operation in various parts of Dagupan City early Wednesday by the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Lee, police provincial director, identified the arrested suspects as Aries…
NO-DRUGS, NO-SMOKING TOWN ASIDE from being the lone drug-unaffected town in Pangasinan, this municipality has already been a zero-smoking zone from the day President Duterte signed Executive Order 26 two months ago. Mayor Timoteo Villar III said to demonstrate the town’s strong support to the president’s administration, he and the…
FOILED EXTORTION ATTEMPT ON ESPINOS — Fifth District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. talks to the media last Friday after the successful entrapment and arrest of an Ombudsman employee and his relative who tried to extort P1.35 million in exchange for ‘fixing’ the dismissal of fabricated yet non-existing cases before the…
THE long arm of the law will always catch the criminals. This was stressed by lawyer Geraldine Baniqued, provincial Legal officer, after the arrest of Lawyer Isagani Nicolas, labor arbiter and cousin Leonardo Nicolas, graft investigator from the Office of the Ombudsman for extortion. They were arrested last week for…
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