LINGAYEN–Almost a third of the province’s police force have no side arms and it may take another six years before the government can provide for them. Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, police provincial director, bared this when he distributed 53 new short firearms to as many policemen last week.
LINGAYEN–Pangasinan is now an insurgency-free province. This was reported by P/Sr. Supt. Percival Barba, provincial police director, and Philippine Army Brigade Commander Leonido Bongcawil during the presentation of Internal Security Operations to Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and the Joint Declaration of Insurgency Free Province held last week.
WITH the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) continuing “Oplan Kandado”, the bureau padlocked on Tuesday three merchandise stores owned by one lady entrepreneur at the downtown area in Dagupan City for failure to pay the right amount of taxes. The establishments, selling mostly goods from China, were simultaneously raided by…
ALAMINOS CITY—This city, home of the well-known Hundred Islands National Park, was conferred the regional 2010 Likas Yaman Award for Environmental Excellence by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). With the award, Alaminos earned the distinction as having the “Best LGU-Initiated Environmental Project ” for its pioneering efforts in the…
DEFIANT–The filling of gravel on a controversial reclamation site at the Calmay River beside the Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension is resumed by the 888 Properties Corp. at a frenetic pace despite a cease and desist order issued by the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources…
PADLOCKED–Bureau of Internal Revenue personnel headed by Regional Director Tomas Rosales and Revenue District Office 4 Yolanda Ferrer seal one of three merchandise stores on A.B. Fernandez Avenue in Dagupan, which they padlocked under Operation Kandado. The stores’ owner was charged for under-declaration of taxes in gross violation of the…
HAND-OVER OF SECURITY ROLE –Governor Amado Espino Jr. meet with PNP and Philippine Army officers to discuss details of the hand-over of Internal Security Operation Lead Role in the province from the Armed Forces of the Philippines to the police to be held at the PDCC Conference Room of the…
COLLABORATION AMONG RIVALS NOTED RE-ELECTED Governor Amado Espino Jr., in his inaugural address Monday, called for people participation in the development of Pangasinan. Espino, who took his oath at the renovated Sison Auditorium here before the Regional Trial Court Judge Georgina Hidalgo, said he alone could not do the job but…
LINGAYEN–Members of the new provincial board belonging to different political parties have vowed to carry out a “principled collaboration” with Governor Amado Espino Jr. Of the 12 elected provincial board members, four are with the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), four with the Liberal Party (LP), and four are with Espino…
RE-ELECTED Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, along with eight city councilors who belong to the majority vowed to support the new city leadership under Mayor Benjamin Lim. Fernandez said their participation in Lim’s inaugural and oath-taking on June 30 is a manifestation that they are ready to work with him.
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