GARBAGE DUMPING IN SAN JACINTO Was it the classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing? Or was a subordinate merely kept in the dark about a particular government transaction? Either way explains the conflicting statements between Mayor Benjamin Lim and City Waste Management…

SLAYING OF JUDGE PAAS   NATIVIDAD–Death threats are reportedly flying all over the place over one murder case. Four members of the police station, including the chief of police, recently received a black ribbon bearing their names, unmistakably a death threat from would-be assassins. The envelope containing the ribbon was sent…

LINGAYEN- The campaign versus gambling machines is risking police effectiveness in its other missions.  This appears to be the sentiment of Police Provincial Director  Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima when he said the campaign against the poor man’s slot machines called “hataw”, including its cousin fruit game, “ameneng“, “is draining the…

LINGAYEN– Watch out for the creation of   the fifth city in Pangasinan possibly this year. The Sangguniang Bayan is set to file a resolution expressing the town officials” intent for the cityhood status, the first step towards  cityhood.   According to Mayor Ernesto Castañeda Jr., after the bills    passage it…

DAGUPAN CITY—’Don’t blame us’. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, the country’s top anti-jueteng crusader, gave this message to people displaced by jueteng stoppage. Cruz said in a statement in his website that,” It is definitely not the anti-jueteng people who neither used nor made any money through them. And it is…

 LINGAYEN–After the “Pacman-Paquiao” fever, it will be the “PRISAA fever” that will enthuse Pangasinenses and private schools in the country in the week ahead. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will keynote the opening of  2006   Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) national games to be held in Dagupan City and various other…

AS ALTERNATIVE LANDFILL  Dumped on private lot SAN JACINTO–Unknown to many, it appears that more than 1,000 truck loads of decomposed and semi-decomposed wastes have been moved from the garbage dumpsite in Bonuan to a private property in barangay Macayug here since September last year. All these were deposited on…

Mayor Benjamin Lim leads the destruction of an illegal “hataw” machine confiscated by barangay tanods of Pantal in a store owned by a certain Gloria Ceralde prior to the expiration of his 72-hour ultimatum to completely eradicate the banned gadgets.

President Arroyo awards free patent to a farmer’s wife when she visited San Fabian last Wednesday as part of her provincial visits to give accent to her pro-poor programs. With her are House SpeakerJose de Venecia, Jr. and his wife Gina, Gov. Victor Agbayani, San Fabian Mayor Mojamito Libunao and…