HONG KONG—The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to benchmark the “Alagang Balon Dagupan for the Elderly,” a landmark program of Dagupan City government, for adoption by developing countries for their elder population. Fernandez described the program when she made a 15-minute presentation before delegates from various parts of the world…
EVEN as he was busy fighting the lonely battle against corruption in the Senate and the hooded “5-6” loan sharks in in many part of the country, Majority Floor Leader Senator Alan Peter Cayetano returned to Pangasinan Sunday for the fourth time to further extend help to members of a jeepney drivers’ cooperative here…
FOR BLACK SAND MINING LINGAYEN—News of the Ombudsman’s decision to indict Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr., Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan and 12 others for allegedly engaging in illegal black sand mining trade in the Lingayen Gulf area, came as a complete surprise to the province’s officials and including the barangay…
LINGAYEN—Give back the sea to us. This is the plea of 70-year old Rolando Rea, “the last man standing” among the original complainants in the Ombudsman case filed against Gov. Amado Espino Jr. et al on alleged black sand mining in the coastal town here. Rea told The PUNCH that…
BAYAMBANG SCHOOL TRANSFER BAYAMBANG–Some 2,000 pupils and teachers of the Bayambang Central School (BCS) will soon find themselves homeless if the “benefactor-investor” fails to get his due from the municipal government, namely the turnover of the old school compound in exchange for the new school complex in Barangay Magsaysay. Businessman…
MALASIQUI–The petitioner/appellant in the civil case he won involving the lease of a portion of the property of the municipality of Malasiqui to the Magic Group of Companies, has petitioned the Regional Trial Court (RTC) to rule on his motion asking for the issuance of a writ of demolition on…
LINGAYEN—Citing statistics covering the June 14- October 13, 2014, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported a significant decrease in the number of shooting incidents with 68, as compared to the same period last year with 89. PPPO information officer Chief Inspector Ryan Manongdo said the improvement was mainly due…
LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan wants the National Electrification Administration (NEA) and the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) to investigate and audit the management and financial operations of Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Panelco) III. This, after the provincial board found out during its Question Hour on Oct. 13 that Panelco III is facing a…
THE Catholic clergy should help Filipinos who presently find themselves in irregular relationships — live-in unions, de facto separation from spouses and partnerships with other persons – and “not presume to judge and condemn.” This was the recent bidding of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, who had just finished attending the…
LINGAYEN—Licensed gun owners in Pangasinan welcomed the lifting of the suspension of the permit to carry firearms outside of residence (PTCFOR) in the province. The order to recall the suspension came exactly four months after Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Alan Purisima ordered the suspension on June 13, a week after…
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