A 55-YEAR old drug dealer from Urdaneta City was nabbed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 (PDEA RO1) Pangasinan Special Enforcement Team (PSET) on May 22 in a buy-bust operation.

MANGALDAN–Three members of the ‘Spaghetti Gang’, a cable wire theft group in the watch list of the local police, were caught and arrested at dawn of March 24 while cutting aerial cable wires of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) in Barangay Navaluan, near the town cemetery.

LINGAYEN–To ensure a systematic flow of Real Property Tax (RPT) collection, the provincial government conducted a two-day training on the RPT payment computerization scheme for municipal treasurers.

EDUCATION ASSISTANCE–The provincial government, through the Provincial Scholarship Fund Board (PSFB), administers the scholarship examination to some 569 incoming first year college students from various towns and cities of the province last May 11 simultaneously. Scholars will each receive a cheque worth P7,000 every semester. Exam results will be announced…

AT least 10 cooperatives in Eastern Pangasinan are in hot water on suspicion that they are engaged in dubious importation of rice. But an official of the National Food Authority (NFA) branch in Eastern Pangasinan was quick to defend them.

ALAMINOS City —“I am ready to face Mayor Braganza’s libel case.” This was the terse reply of Ruben Morante, president of the Pangasinan Accountancy and Science School (PASS) College to the threat of City Mayor Hernani Braganza to file a libel suit against him.

‘NO’ TO 2-DAY CODING THE Alliance of Concerned Transport Operators (ACTO) is keen on stopping the controversial two-day coding scheme for public utility vehicles (PUVs), prohibiting each unit from operating two days a week.

URDANETA CITY–The city government has decided to adopt belt-tightening measures as a result of the diminution of its share from the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) by P17 million this year. City Administrator Ronald San Juan said the creation of 16 new cities by Congress which was questioned by the League of…

ILLEGAL drug trading appears to be the number one crime in the fourth district as majority of those detained at the Dagupan District Jail face charges related to the violation of Republic Act 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

DANGEROUS Drugs Board (DDB) chief Antonio Villar Jr. lauded Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez for adopting the Barkada Kontra Droga (BKD) program in the city. “If all the vice mayors of Pangasinan is like your vice mayor, the problem of illegal drugs will be significantly reduced,” Villar said.