THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) has started releasing drivers’ licenses but motor vehicle plate numbers are still on hold. Daniel Martinez, chief of the LTO in Urdaneta City, however, said only applications for drivers license in Region I filed on or before November 4, 2016 have been processed. The licenses with a three -year validity…

FROM ‘MARCOS BULLIONS’ CALASIAO—For the past weeks, unusual big number of groups of people from different towns in Pangasinan have been queuing at the Bureau of Revenue (BIR) office here to apply for and secure their respective Tax Identification Number (TIN). For decades, nothing in the past could usually compel…

THE Sandiganbayan has ordered the preventive suspension of Pangasinan Provincial Accountant Arturo Soriano for graft charges filed against him in connection with the Metro Rail Transit controversy in his private capacity. The Sandiganbayan’s Third Division reportedly ordered Soriano’s 90-day suspension. Soriano is a co-accused in the graft case against former…

ALL the 1,330 shotguns issued by the provincial government to barangay chairmen during the administration of then Gov. Amado Espino Jr are, for all intents and purposes, now considered ‘loose’ firearms. P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Oliver Lee, OIC as provincial director, had ordered the confiscation of the shotguns that had been…

THE regional office of the Department of Public Works and Highways temporarily closed the Lingayen-Labrador diversion road to give way to the retrofitting and strengthening of the Guesang-Magsaysay Bridge. Motorists are advised to take the Lingayen-Bugallon-Socony-Labrador route. The temporary closure of the bridge started January 17, 2017 but no date…

LINGAYEN– The provincial government in partnership with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) will soon launch the “BaLinkBayan,” an e-governance project to streamline the migration and development initiatives of Pangasinan and efforts to link Filipinos abroad to their families. On Monday, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved a resolution authorizing Gov. Amado…

AN ordinance was passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) on January 18 declaring and celebrating every last week of January every year as the “City Bible Week” In sponsoring the measure, Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo said the Holy Bible is the most powerful book that contains timeless principles, asserting that the…

URDANETA CITY—The city government-owned Urdaneta City University (UCU) received last month its greatest Christmas gift yet – a four-storey building with 24 classrooms from the Travellers International Hotel Group Inc. (TIHGI) and Resorts World Philippines Cultural Heritage Foundation, Inc. (Resorts World Foundation) through the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)….

URBIZTONDO — Life for Ronnie Dayan, former bodyguard-driver and self-confessed bagman for Sen. Leila de Lima, remains difficult and as he fears for his life to this day. P/Chief Inspector Joshua Maximo, Urbiztondo police chief, said Dayan, has not slept in his house in Barangay Galarin here but reportedly occasionally visits…