Solve or bust.

Senior Supt. Isagani Nerez, the provincial police director, is now implementing a stricter deadline policy for solving crimes. All police chiefs have a maximum of three months to solve crimes in their areas of jurisdiction or face removal from their posts.

The police chief in Malasiqui town was recently ordered to step down from his post as several crimes committed in the town continue to remain unsolved.
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SUAL-Let there be light.

And then there was light in Cabalitian Island where a community had thrived without power throughout the decades.

The island, located about a kilometer away from Pangasinan’s mainland or a 10-minute boat ride away from the mainland, is within sight of the Sual Coal-Fired Power Plant.
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LINGAYEN- Believe it or not, there has always been and still only one government-licensed tourist guide serving the province’s tourism industry.

Reynaldo Livara, 26, is the only known holder of a professional tourism guide license that lends to his credentials in his work in his hometown, Alaminos City, site of the world-famous Hundred Islands National Park.
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The significance of corporate responsibility was recently underscored in the fight against illegal drugs.

Taking the lead is the CSI Group of Companies owned by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. It has vowed to do its part to help the country realize its dream to become completely drug free by year 2010 by refusing employment to illegal drug users.
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BOOK DONATION—Acting Mayor  Belen Fernandez  joins the Grades III, IV, V and VI pupils of the East Central Elementary School who received their share of the donated 1,000 science books for a photo op with Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan 2000 Lucy Horado, principal Soc Dimalanta and Barangay Captains Samuel Guaduz and Salve Bravo.

LIGHT AT LAST—Cabalitian Island, a part of Sual town and a kilometer away from the mainland, is now enjoying power supply through a P20-million submarine cable linked to the coal-fired Sual Power Station. The cable project is a joint undertaking of Tokyo Electric Power Company or Tepco and Marubeni Corp. (TeaM Energy), operator of the Sual power plant, Department of Energy (DoE), local government unit of Sual, and the Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Cenpelco). (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)

LINGAYEN—The provincial government’s 2,678 regular and casual employees received an unexpected relief with the release of half of their 13th month pay recently.

Provincial Budget Officer Hilaria Claveria said that those who are entitled for the bonus, amounting to over P29 million, were chiefs of offices, rank and file personnel and casual employees assigned in various offices and hospitals under the provincial government.
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URDANETA CITY–A 7-million Urdaneta Park will be built soon in honor of Father Andres de Urdaneta, the Spanish Augustinian priest after whom this city was named.

The project, a joint undertaking of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the city government, will cover a 2,000-square meter lot in front of the new city hall.
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THE Dagupan Electric Corporation has restored power in Sitio Camanggaan in Mayombo at 4:00 p.m. on June 13 by installing a 100 kilovolt ampere transformer to replace the 75 Kilovolt Ampere (KVA) that was stolen in the aftermath of Typhoon Cosme.

Decorp finally obliged in replacing the lost transformer after six persons were finally identified by the barangay officials and the community as those responsible for the theft.
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URDANETA CITY-The continued increase in oil prices has prompted this city’s police authorities to initiate an environment-friendly project: police patrol on bicycles.

P/Supt Rodolfo Castil Jr, city police chief, said the city’s police bike patrol is the station’s contribution to energy conservation given the high cost of oil prices.
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