Chilling violence PANGASINAN is feeling the chill. Not from cooler winds but the wave of reported crimes in the past two weeks. The most disturbing was the drive-by shooting – again perpetrated by the evidently unstoppable hired guns riding in tandem on unlicensed motorcycles – which took the life of…

Give back the advance THE practice of unliquidated cash advances is one of the more common corrupt practices in government. How it works is no complicated process: a government employee or officer takes money from the public fund through the disbursing officer supposedly for a “special purpose”, as authorized by…

Quarrying with respect AS quarry operators in Pangasinan gathered at the Capitol on October 5 in an assembly called by the provincial government, the country’s mining industry was in a state of shock from the previous day’s attack on three major mining operations in Surigao del Norte.

After the rains IT was a difficult week for Pangasinan last week as the province was pounded by heavy rains and strong winds brought by Typhoon “Pedring” and large areas were, once again, flooded. Then just as Pangasinenses were breathing a sigh of relief, especially those who had to be…

No more landfill excuses WE saw it happen in Smokey Mountain at the capital Metro Manila in 2000. Just last month, it was in Baguio City, touted as the Summer Capital of the Philippines. The man-made catastrophe of collapsing heaps of garbage from dumpsites, killing people and destroying homes, is…