SHOTGUN MAMAS—Five of the women barangay captains of Lingayen line up in formation after they had the muzzles of their respective Akkar shotguns sealed by the Police Provincial Office before New Year’s Day. Last week, a fellow barangay captain, Noel Vinoya of Poblacion, Labrador, was accused of using his issued-shotgun…
DAGUPAN FISH PORT—Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. welcomes the representatives from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and members of a consulting firm that is studying the feasibility of rehabilitating and developing a fish port in Dagupan during a courtesy call on January 5 at the City Mayor’s Office. (CIO Photo)…
NEW YEAR CELEBRATION IN PANGASINAN PANGASINENSES welcomed 2010 in the province with no major incidents reported and for the first time in many years, there was no injury from stray bullets. Two days before the New Year’s Eve celebration, Police Provincial Director Percival Barba led the symbolic sealing of muzzle…
WAS it a robbery attempt or just plain vandalism? The police are investigating the blasting of an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of the Banco de Oro (BDO) branch located on A.B. Fernandez in Dagupan dawn on New Year’s Day. Police Officer Dionisio Gonzales, investigator of the case, said the incident…
A “NO sacred cows” policy. This will continue to be the guiding principle of Undersecretary and former Sto. Tomas Mayor Antonio Villar Jr. as he takes on a third appointed post as chair of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB). Villar is concurrently head of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) and…
JACINTO—Two suspects have been charged for the murder of the barangay chairman of Awai here midnight of December 28. Gregorio Andaya, Awai’s kapitan who is also a former army master sergeant, was shot dead in the head and limbs. The suspects, Alvin Francis Sanchez, a businessman, and his cousin Wilfred…
All roads led to Dagupan City’s Barangay Pogo Grande noontime of January 1 to watch some 100,000 different types of firecrackers, strung together over a kilometer stretch, lit up. The occasion was the barangay’s traditional event gathering and lighting up all unsold and saved firecrackers every high noon on the…
WHODUNIT?—Upper photo: Dagupan Public Order and Safety Office chief Robert Erfe Mejia scratches his head in exasperation as he assesses the damage suffered by the traffic outpost caused by a firecracker explosion at dawn on New Year’s Day. The outpost located at the corner of Perez Boulevard and Guilig Street…
ANNUAL ATTRACTION—Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. lights the first firecracker that set off the simultaneous explosion of firecrackers at high noon on New Year’s Day, a tradition in Barangay Pogo Grande, dubbed as “Little Bocaue of Dagupan”. Lower photo: The crowd carefully watches the line of firecrackers exploding on the street…
A GOOD BEGINNING FOR 2010 NOTWITHSTANDING the election next year and its consequent ban on public infrastructure projects for a certain period, several “mega projects” are set for implementation in Pangasinan. National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Regional Director Leonardo Quitos, also vice chairman of the Regional Development Council (RDC),…
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