THE Dagupan police believe a breakthrough in its investigation into the slaying of a nurse in Barangay Tambac on Thursday dawn may be imminent with the continuing interrogation of a security guard of the hospital where the victim was working. The victim, Zharlene Yadao, 25, was reportedly shot and killed…
Pangasinan is now the global model for universal health insurance of indigents. This was disclosed by PhilHealth Sr. Manager in his letter to Gov. Amado Espino Jr., expressing the agency’s plan to chronicle the accomplishment of the provincial government.
Two policemen from Pangasinan were selected as among the nation’s 10 best cops to receive the prestigious MetroBank Foundation Award on Monday, July 5, from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in Malacañang. P P/Supt. Eric Noble, police chief of Sta. Barbara and Police Officer 3 Arturo Melchor, assigned with the Pangasinan…
La Union–The operation of the La Union Shabu Laboratory that was busted by agents of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency last year proved to be deadly not only for drug users but for one of its own workers. In a press statement released to the media by the agency’s information office…
THE LAST BATTLE—Anti-riot policemen of Dagupan armed with shields and sticks push back the residents of Sitio Russia in Bonuan Binloc during the brief scuffle when the latter blocked the entry to the compound last June 27 to prevent the demolition of their houses. The team led by City Administrator…
TO RID LINGAYEN GULF OF POLLUTION It will have to go. Thus said Dagupan City Administrator Alvin Fernandez about the fate of the District Jail located in Bonuan Gueset. Evidently peeved by the endless reports about the continuing pollution of the beachfront emanating from the district jail, he said the…
SAN CARLOS CITY–Heads will roll once city hall employees responsible for the missing P9 million have been identified. This, Mayor Julier Resuello vowed, will happen as he reiterated that there will be no sacred cows in the ongoing probe for the reported missing fund from the city coffers. Both the…
WHO is in charge? Third District Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas is wont to ask this question noting the high rate of murders in her district, targeting public officials and prominent citizens in the district, and whose cases remain unsolved to this day. She expressed alarm over the manner with which…
THE site for the building of the planned Seafood Processing Plant in Sitio Russia Barangay Bonuan Binloc is finally cleared of squatters as of June 25. The twenty-four families that initially resisted attempts to relocate them, voluntarily moved to the Gawad Kalinga–Bangusville Phase II in Sitio Korea, said City Administrator…
ASINGAN–To break the impasse that’s causing the delay in the completion of the flood control project, Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. hinted government may proceed with the enforcement of a writ of possession issued by the court. Esperon mentioned this possibility as the scheduled dialogue between the landowners and their lawyer,…
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