Truth at its Most Brilliant
Guico ‘retaliates’ for prov’l neglect of his town
LINGAYEN – Some P2 million in real property tax collections has not been remitted by Binalonan town, it was learned Friday.
This developed as Binalonan Mayor Ramon Guico revealed to media that he has instructed the municipal treasurer to deposit the unremitted collections in the bank instead of remitting the money to the provincial treasurer which is the proper procedure.
CITY Mayor Bejamin S. Lim gave Police Chief P/Supt. Edgar Basbas 72 hours or three days ending last Friday to eradicate ‘hataw’ ‘ameneng’ operations in Dagupan City.
In a memorandum dated last Monday, January 16, Lim directed Basbas to confiscate in three days and account for all hataw and similar machines within the city.
SAN FABIAN – The so-called “brain drain” as a result of Filipino professionals seeking employment abroad is more than compensated for by the remittances they send to their relatives who can now send their children to school and become professionals too, President Macapagal-Arroyo observed Wednesday.
In a media interaction after lunch at the municipal town hall here, the President also noted that some 2 million jobs were created last year, about half of which were employment placements abroad. She claimed that her administration’s goal of six million jobs to be created during her term is on target.
THE school superintendent plantilla position for Pangasinan has gone to nearby La Union in what seemed to be a swap of sort, it was gathered Wednesday.
Department of Education regional director Vilma Labrador however claimed that the superintendent item does not really belong to the local government units thus anybody can lay claim to it.
By Venus May H. Sarmiento
PIA-Pangasinan
SAN FABIAN – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is keen on fighting malnutrition and boosting the education program in the country by giving one kilo of rice every day for one year to students and their families as well as irrigation pumps to farmers.
Speaking at the San Fabian East Central Elementary School here, Wednesday, the president vowed to give priority to the problem of malnutrition and further improve education in the country.
RANG-AY BANK, the biggest rural bank in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions, celebrated its 50th Anniversary last January 14. A luncheon program called Gintong Pasasalamat kicked off the year-long celebration at the Ilocandia Hall of the Oasis Country Resort in San Fernando City.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando M. Tetangco came as guest of honor and speaker. Land Bank of the Philippines President Gilda E. Pico later led the ceremonial toast at the launching of the Rang-ay Bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and Website.
CLASS REUNION.Batch 69 of the St. Columban’s College in Lingayen, relived the golden schooldays in a “short notice” reunion called by their balikbayan batchmate, Carlito Arenas, a US Navyman now living in Kihikihi, Hawai’i. Early arrivals from the batch seen in this photo include Pangasinan Star’s Evangeline S. Estrada, Froilan Fernandez, Citas Buan, Loreto Castro, Carlos Rayos, Teofilo Sison, Josefino Vila, Julie Akutar, Angelita Cervantes, Susana Sison, Eliza Cerezo and their P.E instructor Angela Madrid. (PStar Photo)
THE city of Dagupan will seek the opinion of experts, including the United States of America to finally settle a local historical dispute as to where General Douglas Mac Arthur really first landed in Pangasinan during the liberation of Luzon from the Japanese 61 years ago.
This was disclosed by Mayor Benjamin Lim in a speech during the opening of World War II exhibit at the Dagupan City museum sponsored by the Philippine Veterans Bank last Friday.
LINGAYEN – The continuing fight to reduce poverty in Pangasinan will be waged with greater vigor with the offer of Gov. Victor Agbayani for the provincial government to assist the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in rehabilitating its outmoded and virtually non-functioning irrigation systems in the province.
Agbayani renewed his proposal in his state of the province address before the provincial board last Friday, noting that the unproductivity of rice farms in the province is caused by security irrigation water coming from the NIA.
MANGALDAN – Christmas came too late for the family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW0 from this town when her wish came true only in the second week of the year, through the courtesy of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
Although she did not succeed in her quest for a better life for her family, former domestic helper Crestita Bercasio of barangay Lanas here fulfilled her dream with her selection as regional awardee of a special program of the OWWA.
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