SUCCESSFUL SUPPLY REDUCTION LINGAYEN— If the trend continues, shabu will already hardly be afforded by the jobless and residents in settlements. This became evident after Region 1 director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said price of shabu has increased by as much as 600 percent due to the…
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT — Lingayen-Dagupan diocesan parishioners, members of Philippine National Police, priests, nuns and seminarians, and families of victims, join the candlelight procession along Dagupan City streets carrying streamers and banners with message: “Huwag kang papatay,” “Thou shalt not kill” after a Holy Mass was offered for drug personalities…
IN a statement issued on Sept. 14 on the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said prayers are offered for “divine fortitude and wisdom to guide all enforcers of the law so that human rights may everywhere…
LINGAYEN— Urdaneta City’s drug dens in Muslim village are gone. This was revealed by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isidro Lapeña to local reporters after the Pangasinan Anti-Illegal Drugs Summit. Lapeña said Barangay Camantiles in Urdaneta City that used to be a hotspot and source of drug supply…
SAN CARLOS CITY—A Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge here issued a preliminary injunction or status quo order enjoining a businessman from exercising his rights of ownership on the controversial century-old Bayambang Central School. In a two-page order dated Sept. 5, 2016, Presiding Judge Hermogenes Fernandez of the RTC Branch 56…
FIFTH District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. is still not ready to accept the 90-day prevention order imposed on him by the Sandiganbayan in connection with the graft charge filed against him relative to the alleged black sand mining in the Lingayen Beach. Congressman Espino deemed it better to bring the…
LINGAYEN–The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) maintained that no drug laboratory exists in any place in Region 1 but called on residents to maintain their vigilance. PDEA Regional Director Jeoffrey Tacio revealed that most drugs filtering into the region are coming from the National Capital Region (NCR), Central Luzon and Region…
PERSONAL PLEDGES — Gov. Amado Espino III, PDEA R1 Director Jeoffrey Tacio, PNP R1 Director Police Chief Superintendent Gregorio R. Pimentel, PDEA Director General Isidro Lapeña, and DILG Secretary Ismael Sueno, lead participants in affixing their signatures on the pledge printed on a huge tarpaulin presented during the Pangasinan Anti-Illegal Drug Summit. (PUNCHphoto by Willie…
NBP DRUG MATRIX LINGAYEN –Interior and Local Government Secretary Ismael Sueno said there is an ongoing revalidation of personalities mentioned by President Duterte in the drug matrix in the New Bilibid Prison. “We’ll wait, there might be results in the next few days,” Sueno told newsmen when he came here…
BLACK SAND MINING LINGAYEN– Fifth District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. said he expected the 90-day preventive suspension issued by the Sandiganbayan as a matter of legal procedure before the trial proper over the alleged illegal black sand mining in this coastal town begins. This was the reaction of Mr. Espino…
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