JLD contract under probe
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THE search for the missing contract is far from over.
JLD Motors and Towing Service, which was supposedly commissioned to tow and clamp vehicles in the city during the administration of then Mayor Benjamin Lim, will be investigated by the current administration of Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.
Fernandez, through City Administrator Alvin Fernandez, ordered City [...]
4 rowdy policemen arrested
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PART OF CLEANSING, SAYS BATAOIL
FOUR policemen are now in hot water for alleged indiscriminate firing in a resort in Binalonan town on Tuesday, making them culpable for violation as well of the Commission on Elections, (Comelec) gun ban in view of the upcoming Barangay and Samahang Kabataan elections.
Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil, Ilocos Region police director, [...]
Pangasinan PNP goes green
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LINGAYEN—Some 1,000 mahogany seedlings were planted at the compound of the Philippine National Police (PNP) provincial headquarters here Thursday as a "manifestation of love for Mother Earth".
Tree planting will also be scheduled in the province’s municipal and city police stations.
The activity was a joint undertaking among the PNP provincial office headed by Sr. Supt. Isagani [...]
No delay in barangay, SK polls seen-Comelec
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DAGUPAN City Elections Officer Remarque Ravanzo called on prospective candidates to file their certificates of candidacies notwithstanding the certification by Malacañang of the bill seeking the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections as “urgent”.
“As far as we in the Comelec (Commission on Elections) are concerned, that was just a certification and we have [...]
RDC chief says no to election postponement
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DAGUPAN CITY — Don't stop the elections!
This was the message of the head of the Region 1 Development Council to both the Senate and the House of Representatives who are presently poised to postpone the barangay and Samahang Kabataan elections scheduled on October 29.
“It is disastrous and patently illegal to do so,” said Dr. [...]
2nd district school brass bewail schools' disrepair
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URBIZTONDO–The scenario is all too common in many of the country's public schools: dilapidated buildings, children cramped in classrooms, or shortened classes in order to accommodate the student population.
In the Second District of Pangasinan, this situation holds true in about 60% of the public schools, according to a report by Schools Division Superintendent Dr. [...]
Dagupan will restore traditional siren every 6 pm
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Soon Dagupeños will again be hearing the sound of the city’s siren regularly.
The “angelus time” is being revived in Dagupan City with the re-commissioning of its old siren that survived many generations until it conked out years ago.
This was the siren that used to wake up residents in their slumber at 6:00 a.m. and put [...]
PNP lists "areas of concern" during elections
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THE Philippine National Police has so far not declared any area in the Ilocos region under Comelec control in connection with the October 29 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.
But Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil has so far identified 116 barangays in 15 different municipalities of the region as "areas of concern", mostly in [...]
Violence grips San Fabian
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SAN FABIAN—A man was killed while his brother was wounded in another round of violence here, just more than two weeks after an Ombudsman investigator was shot and killed in cold blood.
The incident happened in barangay Nibaliw Vidal at about 6:15 p.m. of October 1 when two men on separate motorcycles shot and killed Sofronio [...]
Anda dad kills self
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SUAL– Charlies Lee Kiongson, a 23-year old councilor of Anda town is believed to have committed suicide inside his own room in the early hours of October 3.
Kiongson was found by his father, Reynaldo Kiongson, in his bed with a gunshot wound on the right side of his head.
Beside his body was one 9 [...]
