Jose Ceralde
27 Jan 2008

 

 

Edwin,

Washington D.C. is a wonderful place just like Metro Manila or Pangasinan but in some areas you needed protection.

We were in Walter Reed Army Medical Center when I was telling the story to the one treating me of how I was just challenged to get out of the car in front of a MacDonald’s, a block from the Center by a group of young men because I did not turn my car fast enough for them. I was surprised when the staff showed me his illegal gun (guns are illegal in DC) and he said “I rather go to jail alive than be carried in a coffin.” What a place and situation to be in.

The gun ban is feasible if people feel safe that they don’t have to choose between jail and coffin.

BONUAN LANDGRABBING SCAM

“The truth of the matter is I was shocked”. This was the reaction of City Legal Officer George Mejia, noting the many huge and illegal infrastructures now rising simultaneously along the beach in Bonuan Binloc erected by both professional and affluent squatters.
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NAMES of Mayor Roy Macanlalay of Calasiao and other prominent personalities were initially identified as among the prominent people who allegedly built structures illegally in the beach area of Bonuan Binloc.

Barangay Captain Ronaldo Torio, in an interview with The PUNCH, identified Macanlalay as the allege downer of a fenced area with a steel gate in the beach, approximately 1,000 square meters in area.
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THE Dagupan City government is now inclined to proceed with the demolition of all illegal structures that were built in the beach area following a meeting on Friday that clarified the issues surrounding the anomalous sale of beach land in Bonuan Binloc.

The meeting was attended by members of the Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement, representatives of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office and barangay officials.
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ALARMED BY KILLINGS

LINGAYEN-Ban the gun in Pangasinan.

Governor Amado Espino Jr., alarmed by the spate of killings involving firearms, has ordered Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, police provincial director, to impose a province-wide gun ban effective Tuesday.

Espino cited among others the still unresolved gun slaying of San Carlos City Mayor Julian Resuello in April last year and the most recent one involving the bodyguards of the mayor and vice mayor of Tayug town.
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LINGAYEN- The cops in the provincial and Dagupan City police stations have reason to crow.

Both the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office and the Dagupan City Police Station have been chosen recently as the country’s Best Police Provincial Office and Best City Police Station, respectively, by the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, provincial director, said they were informed about the citation on Tuesday, immediately after the result of the awarding committee’s evaluation was released.
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ON CASE FILED BY METROSTATE

There’s bad news and good news for the city government of Dagupan.

The bad news is last December 18, Regional Trial Court Judge Rolando Mislang of  Branch 42 granted the motion of Metro State Realty Corporation seeking  the execution of his order,  pending appeal, ordering City Engineer Virginia Rosario  to issue a building permit for their stalled project.

The good news is Pairing Judge Silverio Castillo of Branch 43, who took over Mislang’s sala when the latter was transferred to the RTC branch in Pasig City, set aside Mislang’s order in his own three-page order dated January 22, 2008.
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LINGAYEN–A song for Pangasinan.

The Pangasinan hymn, the first in the province’s long history, was played for the first time before provincial employees during the regular Monday morning flag raising ceremony in front of the Capitol building.

Governor Amado Espino Jr. said the hymn, entitled “Pangasinan Aking Yaman“, reminds Pangasinenses of their rich history, vast natural resources and love for their province, and hails the onset of economic progress spawned by a united people.
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TAYUG—This town is under close watch by the police after the bodyguards of the two highest officials of Tayug clashed on January 18 in broad daylight at the town plaza.

       Wounded in that incident were Bimbo Clutario and Ruben Sotero Jr., bodyguards of Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili who were allegedly fired upon by Joven Bautista and Lacay Alcaneses, bodyguards of Vice Mayor Janet Zaragoza.
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The country can finally expect the passage of the Cheaper Medicine Bill when the regular session of both Senate and House resumes.

This became evident after House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., representative of the 4th District, assured doctors belonging to the Pangasinan Medical Society (PMS), that he, as well as Rep. Ferjenel Biron, the primary author of the House version, said they are “inclined” to support the doctors’ position on the proposed provision for the generic medicine.
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