FINALLY, swimming by the Tondaligan Beach will now be a lot safer. The city council finally approved an ordinance seeking to make swimming and bathing at the Tondaligan beach safer and prevent more drowning incidents in the area. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, who chairs the committee on tourism in the…

SAN CARLOS CITY – The police chief of San Carlos City was relieved from his post last Wednesday after only few months in office. Supt. Pedro Austria was replaced by Supt. Johnny Bacbac who was earlier relieved as police chief of Urdaneta because of the one-strike policy of the police….

NURSING SCHOOLS ISSUE The Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities  (PACU) initially won its battle against the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in connection with the latter’s two resolutions setting minimum limits to percentage of graduates for schools  to retain their licenses to operate.  A Regional Trial Court in Dagupan…

  A plan of the city government to implement pay parking scheme in all national roads of the city can lead to a number of legal issues, including being sued for accidents on these roads. The concerns were raised by Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion during the public hearing on…

The reorganization of the association of barangay captains was completed but its validity remains uncertain. Consequently, Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez told beleaguered Councilor Eric Muñoz to remain in his office and continue attending sessions of the city council as ex-officio member despite the reported reorganization. Fernandez said he will prevent…

AS envisioned, the international training center for aquaculture students and technicians will soon be opened this year. Dr. Westly Rosario, interim executive director National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), said the Asian Aquaculture Academy located inside the 24-hectare National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City…

Joan De Venecia, a Dagupeña and a University of the Philippines College of Law valedictorian, is this year’s topnotcher in the traditionally back-breaking bar examination with only 27.22 percent of the total examinees hurdling it. She scored 87.20%and is one of only three topnotchers from UP. Joan took her legal…

filipinos maybe poor, but not unhappy. Lingayen-Dagupan  Archbishop Oscar Cruz asserted this to belie a recent  Roper Report   that said that the Filipinos are the “unhappy people” in Asia. “This is rather far from the truth, to say the least,” he said He contended that the Filipinos may have certain…

Guv disappointed over PNP action   WAS the relief of Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima as Police Provincial Director of Pangasinan effective March 22 a mere “moro-moro”? This question cropped up because three days later Purisima was designated as deputy director of the Eastern Police District in Pasig City and was…

LINGAYEN – Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan are keen on allowing the operation of Small Town Lottery (STL) in the province to prevent the resurgence of jueteng. But the four members of the provincial board who filed a pro-STL resolution want the national government through the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office…