Roots
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Roots | Leave a Comment
Trash talk
By Marifi Jara
If the government were to prosecute all the local officials around the country who have failed to do their administrative duties in implementing the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, the Office of the Ombudsman would be trashed in heaps of cases. Nay, the files would be up to their necks in [...]
Feelings
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power!
By Emmanuelle
Last week, we told the story of a woman who lost the love of her life in None So Blind Than One Who Will Not See. Sadly, that story is not one of a kind. If there were any other thing we can be sure of in this [...]
JdV tells police: Arrest drug and jueteng lords
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
FOR THE FIRST TIME
SAN JACINTO–Let’s make Pangasinan a model province.
This was the appeal of the House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. to the province’s police command as he reiterated his call to have the drug lords and gambling lords operating in Pangasinan, particularly within the Fourth District, arrested and prosecuted.
He made the call amid reports [...]
Two angles probed in SC lawyer’s murder
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–The police task force investigating the murder of lawyer Conrado Soriano Jr., alias Pacpac, is now looking into the business angle as the possible motive.
Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, police provincial director of Pangasinan and the overall commanding officer of the task force, said initial evidence indicate that an “unfulfilled obligation” to a still unnamed client [...]
Legal officer under threat
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
SOMEBODY out there doesn’t want the city legal officer of Dagupan talking to local media too much.
Retired City Court Judge George Mejia, the city’s legal officer, said repeated telephone calls have been made to this home, received mostly by his househelp, warning him to stop talking to the press.
He told newsmen that if the calls [...]
Canto allays fear about proposed rehab center
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
Don’t worry, be happy.
Councilor Jesus Canto gave this assurance to residents opposing the planned construction of the Regional Drug Rehabilitation Center in Bonuan Binloc, which is intended to serve not just Pangasinan but the entire Northern Luzon.
The P35-million facility will be built on a three-hectare lot previously occupied by the Dona Teodora Manaois [...]
UL stude is No. 5 highest in nursing exam
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Univesity of Luzon added another feather to its cap when its nursing graduate placed 5th in the tough Nursing Licensure Examination given last June 10 and 11.
Shalymar S. Zabala, a consistent honor student and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mario Zabala of Mayombo, Dagupan City, landed fifth among the more than 70,000 examinees, scoring [...]
Bayambang landfill may still be nixed by new mayor
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
BAYAMBANG–The controversial P250-million sanitary landfill project here will be shelved for good if the new town mayor will have his way.
Mayor Ricardo Camacho told local newsmen that he intends to keep his campaign promise to the townsfolk to block the implementation of the project, which had already been approved by the previous administration.
“If it’s exclusively [...]
Barangay officials want Oct. 29 polls
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
BARANGAY officials in the 4th District, home turf of House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., are against a proposal to postpone the October 29 barangay elections.
The local officials aired their position during the recent thanksgiving party hosted by De Venecia for his supporters in the province.
The official stance of the barangay officials will be [...]
Dad: Floods can be stopped
Posted on September 2, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
A CITY councilor believes that even if Dagupan is situated one meter below sea level, the perennial flooding problem can be solved.
Councilor Karlos Reyna, a licensed engineer, sought the presence of City Engineer Virginia Rosario in the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s (SP) next session to brief members on the flooding problem in the city, usually blamed on [...]
