LINGAYEN–Governor Amado Espino Jr. and members of the provincial board are fighting for the retention of the province’s two schools division superintendents in their current posts amid reports of being transferred to a smaller unit, allegedly as a “punishment” by Education Secretary Jesli Lapus. Espino and the board members have…
The country’s most outstanding regional newspapers will again take the center stage on April 28, 2009 when the winners in the Philippine Press Institute’s Civic Journalism Community Press Awards are announced at the institute’s 13th Annual Membership Meeting. Celebrating 13 years of excellence in community journalism, the prestigious awards program…
LINGAYEN–The police have yet to determine the purpose of three armed men who were arrested two weeks ago for carrying high-powered firearms and packing over 200 rounds of ammunition. Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Ramon Gatan said the three men flatly refused to tell investigators what they were doing in…
LINGAYEN–All permanent and temporary barriers and obstructions erected fronting schools and churches along national highways, provincial roads and major thoroughfares in the province will be removed following a directive from Governor Amado Espino Jr. Espino said while the job of removing the road barriers rests on the Department of Public…
DAGUPAN is responding to the call for a better environment when it joins the world observance of ‘Earth Hour’ on Mar. 28. Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. said the city will switch off all lights in the city streets and in the city hall for one hour that day starting at…
RPOC-RLECC MEETING—Gov. Amado Espino, Jr. (right) welcomes the participants to the joint meeting of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) 1 and the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) held at the Capitol Resort Hotel on March 18, 2009 where among the issues discussed were the state of peace…
KIDNAPPING EVIDENCE—Police Chief Supt. Ramon Gatan (right), regional director of the Police Regional Office 1(PRO1), with Pangasinan police director Senior Supt. Percival Barba presents to newsmen the ransom money and other belongings recovered from the three suspects involved in the abduction of a grandson of Mangaldan Mayor Herminio Romero. The…
MAYOR RESUELLO MURDER SAN CARLOS CITY–A prosecutor has trashed the case filed against the suspects in the murder of former Mayor Julian Resuello for supposed lack of probable cause. Among those charged in the Resuello killing was Douglas Soriano, a former mayor of the city who was running against the…
“Go after them!” Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. urged Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. not to relent in his “no-nonsense campaign” against land grabbers who have evidently illegally misappropriated for themselves portions of the Tondaligan Park and other foreshore areas in Bonuan.
HELP yourself first before we assist you. This was the stance maintained by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez on the problem of the overcrowded Dagupan City District Jail run by the Bureau of Jail and Penology (BJMP), a national agency. Supt. Edgar Bolcio, the jail warden,…
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