BASISTA – Some education officials still don’t get it.   A school principal here was sacked for implementing a very questionable “no payment, no examination” policy among his students in spite of previous directives in the past prohibiting such a policy.   Relieved effective last Monday was Herminigildo Sabangan, principal…

DAGUPEÑOS may soon see relief from the constant flooding of its streets and barangays.   The  United States Agency for International Development has chosen Dagupan as one among the five Asian cities as pilot area   for the implementation of  the Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia …

The Dagupan City Health Office (CHO) is poised to close more  of the 37 water refilling stations in this city that refuse to comply with the requirements set by the Health department to operate as it issued three initial notices of closure last week.   Dr. Leonard Carbonell, city health…

LINGAYEN – “Catch us if you can” is the message of assassins and highway robbers to Police Provincial Director Alan Purisima’s Task Force ‘Hagibis’ which is still busy training its members.   To make sure the motorcycle-riding guns-for-hire delivered their message, they struck anew last Thursday in barangay Bonuan  Gueset…

SPEAKER Jose de Venecia, Jr. inaugurated last March 5 the newly-built water pumping station of barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City, funded by his Countrywide Development Assistance Fund.   The P4.8 million project is part of the first-ever water system for  barangay Bonuan Binloc that will soon include a five…

crackdown vs outspoken priests “Arrest me? Please, I do not deserve it—yet!” This was Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz’s reaction in the wake of reports that Cruz, together with three other bishops in the country, is in the “order of battle”. Cruz, a vocal critic of the Arroyo administration, said in…

LAOAC – “It was done in good faith”. That’s how Mayor Gregorio Tabayoyong explained his withdrawn executive order increasing the rate of municipal fees, after it was questioned by his town’s sanggunian before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. Tabayoyong, described by a town councilor as an official ignorant of the law, said…

LINGAYEN – After months of belligerence, the town of Binalonan has softened up and agreed to remit its Real Property Tax (RPT) collections last year to the provincial government. Provincial Administrator Virgilio Solis said “finally, the share of the province from the RPT collections will be remitted to the treasurer’s…

THE lifting of Proclamation No. 1017 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo due to pressures from her critics and even allies was hailed by political and educational leaders in Pangasinan. Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino led government officials in Pangasinan who hailed the presidential move, saying this was a positive sign that…

MOVE OVER DAGUPAN ALCALA – Without intending to spend a single centavo, the town of Alcala aims to etch its name in the Guinness World Records when it puts up the world’s longest grill unit and the world’s barbecue grill on April 29 this year. Mayor Manuel Collado said the…