LONG-TERM SOLUTION AMID the garbage crisis presently facing the city of Dagupan since the closure of the open dumpsite, a small light appears at the end of the tunnel –  the city’s planned waste-to-energy facility may soon become a reality. City Legal Officer Victoria Cabrera told the consultative meeting convened…

UNKNOWN to many, there is an increasing  number of children in conflict with law and sexually-abused children in the province. The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office’s records show there are 374 accommodated cases of children in conflict with the law and abused victims, 242 of which are female and…

CALASIAO–A woman tagged as a shabu queen and a pimp was gunned down on Feb. 5 along Barangay Buenlag here. The victim identified as Rescila Orienza, 41, native of Arayat, Pampanga who rented a house in RTM Subdivision, Barangay Buenlag here, was shot dead by unidentified suspects on board a white…

GARBAGE CRISIS IMMINENT DAGUPAN residents are told to help manage their household wastes or face a garbage crisis in the city sooner than they think. City Administrator Farah Decano said it is the only remaining alternative since the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has refused to accept any…

NEW ROLES IN WAR ON DRUGS WITH the order to stop all police operations against illegal drugs, the responsibility and burden of clearing of the remaining 259 drug-affected barangays in Pangasinan has been effectively shifted from the Pangasinan police to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). This was bared by Supt….

LINGAYEN—The establishment of a drug rehabilitation center for lightly and moderately-affected drug personalities to be funded and operated by the provincial government is finally in the works. This became evident after the formal donation of a two-hectare property located in Barangay San Vicente, Burgos owned by the Cabiles family to…

NEW MISSION: EXPOSE SCALAWAGS PANGASINAN police took exception to the claim of Amnesty International that there is a cash reward policy for deaths of drug personalities in the province. P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, deputy provincial director, was categorical in his statement before the KBP Forum even as he stressed that there…

MISSING PNP GUNS SCANDAL THE former chief of police of the Urdaneta City Police Station and 14 other personnel implicated over the disappearance 41 hands guns from the armory of the Urdaneta Police Station face immediate dismissal and trial for criminal cases that may be filed against them. According to…

WAR ON SCALAWAGS IN compliance with the directive of the PNP leadership suspending the Project Double Barrel Alpha, Pangasinan Police immediately put on hold all illegal drug operations and promptly began effecting a reshuffle initially of town police chiefs in the province. Acting Police Provincial Director P/Sr. Supt. Ronald Oliver…