Lingayen – The rats are coming!     Rice crops in Manaoag season have been pilfered by rats who surfaced recently, worrying farmers and their families.    However, the Office of the Provincial Agriculture assured farmers not to worry because rat infestation as expected this season would be negligible.   …

NON-EXISTENT JOBS IN SPAIN   Woman recruiter arrested, jailed Tayug – A woman illegal recruiter is now being held at the district Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Urdaneta City for large-scale estafa and illegal recruitment after swindling at least 48 job applicants for fictitious jobs in Spain. Leticia…

  Lingayen – The Philippine National Police (PNP) provincial command here is under fire from provincial officials for its inability to check the rise in robbery cases but this did not deter it from invading the cyberspace with the launching of its website. The launch of the website was made…

  San Fernando City, La Union–The anti-drug abuse councils of Alaminos City and the municipality of Bayambang have been cited as the region’s most outstanding in their respective categories while Lingayen Police Station and the 106th Provincial mobile Group clinched the honors as the Municipal Police Station of the Year…

  President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo vowed to help the private school system when she came to open the week-long Private Schools Athletic Association national games at the Narciso Ramos Sports Center in Lingayen. President Arroyo outlined the mechanics for the high school vouchers program to benefit private schools. She said…

  Mayor Benjamin Lim has dismissed another employee of the city government and forfeited all her benefits and remuneration from the service after she was found liable for dishonesty and gross misconduct.            Gertrudes Salayog, Local Treasury Officer III OIC-Cash Division, was charged administratively for her failure to properly…

 ON WITH NEW ‘KALUTAN’     Is Dagupan City the holder of the world’s longest barbecue grill record?   If the mere recorded and submitted data to Guinness World of Records were considered,   the answer would be in the affirmative but apparently this claim has yet to be validated and…

FOR PRISAA NAT’L GAMES      All is set for the PRISAA games.   Notably, the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen as well as the Olympic-size swimming pool and the Astrodome in Dagupan City have been renovated in time for the national games of the Private Schools Athletic…

  City Mayor Benjamin Lim again led the destruction of second batch of 51 Ameneng and Hataw machines last Thursday in front of the Dagupan City Police (DCPS).  Provincial Director Allan Purisima, PNP Command intelligence and investigation chief P/Supt Noli Taliño, Police Chief Col. Edgar Basbas, and the elements of…

PURISIMA THREATENED WITH RELIEF Malasiqui — Speaking for the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino said he is not happy with the performance of the police in Pangasinan led by Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima.   Lambino confessed that majority of the members of the SP were alarmed over…