TAYUG – Let the decision and the complaint speak for themselves. This summed up Regional Trial Court Judge Ulysses Butuyan’s reply to the administrative case filed against him before the Supreme Court. In the one-page comment on the complaint filed by Renerio Paas, husband of the late Pasay City Judge…

URDANETA CITY – Employees of the city government heaved a sigh of relief when they learned that the Sangguniang Panlungsod shelved its plan to implement a retrenchment program. Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. confirmed that the members of the SP had a change of heart on the retrenchment plan in consideration…

Now its 50-50 sharing basis! A watered down version of the pay parking ordinance was approved Monday by the city council with seven councilors voting affirmatively and one registering a negative vote. The original proposal for 80-20 sharing basis on the gross income in favor of the contractor was reduced…

BINMALEY – Two more suspected guns-for-hire in Dagupan City were identified and arrested. The two suspects in the attempted slaying of Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Magin Niño Orlino of San Carlos City were arrested one after the other Friday in Dagupan City by members of the Binmaley police and agents of…

ARE the cities of Dagupan and San Urdaneta the main sources of illegal drugs now flooding Baguio City? This question arose following a buy-bust operation conducted by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency from the Cordillera region Tuesday afternoon against suspected drug dealers at sitio Silungan in barangay Bonuan…

DAGUPAN CITY – False report destroys all presumptions. Thus determined the City Prosecutor’s Office here last Monday that the Lyceum Northwestern University was a victim of a false and unfair publicity and gave due course to a libel case filed by LNU president Gonzalo Duque against high-ranking officials of the…

Stop blaming your usual suspect for the flooding. This was the reaction of Antonio Calaycay of the National Power Corporation’s Flood Forecasting and Warning System to accusations aired that the San Roque Dam in San Manuel town was to blame for the severe flooding in Moncada and Paniqui in Tarlac,…

WORLD MUSICFEST IN CHINA When it rains, it pours for the University of Pangasinan. After Gringo San Diego topped the recent nurses’ board exams, the university chalked up two more honors – national and international. UPANG was adjudged one of two musical choirs, the other being Slovenia, Russia which bagged…

Hiring to be based on qualifications The cash-strapped Dagupan City government appears bent on pushing through with its planned reorganization that will result in the lay-off of some 500 employees. This was indicated by City Administrator Rafael Baraan when he appeared before the committee on reorganization in the Sangguniang Panlungsod…

But hospitals teem with dengue patients PRIVATE and government hospitals in Dagupan are now crowded with patients suspected to be  suffering from dengue but the Provincial Health Office still insists that there is no outbreak of dengue in Pangasinan.  Acting Provincial Health Officer Jackson Soriano refuted the declaration made by…