Truth at its Most Brilliant
VIGAN CITY – Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis Chavit Singson has set a P50,000 reward to anyone who can furnish valuable information that can lead to the solution of the gruesome murder last week of a councilor from Bantay town.
At the sametime, Singson warned he will seek the relief of all the operatives of the entire Bantay town police force if they will not solve immediately the slaying of Councilor Paul Anthony Benito Lucero, 41.
CABUGAO, Ilocos Sur – Everything is set for the “Intayon Cabugao” Festival slated from April 18-27 to be attended by over 1,500 balikbayan and their families from all over the world.
Mayor Dioceasar S. Suero said the Sakada centennial celebration marking the 100 years of migration of Filipino sugar workers to Hawaii, and the Global Homecoming and Reunion of Cabugao residents now living abroad, will be the festival highlights.
Suero said the ‘Intayon Cabugao’ Festival is a yearly celebration started in 2002 to provide opportunities for overseas residents of the town and their respective families to come home and sample their townmates’ hospitality.
ARCHBISHOP Oscar V. Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese said Tuesday that jueteng has been making a fast comeback in Luzon and the Visayas.
Cruz, founder of the Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng, said under the guise of EZ2, the Bogus STL (Small Town Lottery) and plain bookies, “jueteng is again extending its exploitative and deceptive tentacles in the country”.
The top anti-jueteng crusader in the country, it will be recalled, spawned a Senate investigation on jueteng last year resulting in a nationwide crackdown by the police against the illegal numbers game.
ASINGAN – A water refilling station here was rocked by an explosion when a man tossed a fragmentation grenade inside it at about 7 p.m. last Monday.
Supt. Fidel Drapeza, chief of police said no one was hurt in the explosion that happened at the Aqua Mega Mineral Water refilling station located on Solaria street in Poblacion East, only less than 20 meters away from the police station and 10 meters away from the municipal hall.
The water refilling station is owned by Mrs. Eugene de Leon. She said she does not know any reason for the grenade attack on her establishment.
THE Dagupan city government ordered five more water refilling stations closed – apparently not because they were selling impure water after an on-spot hygiene check– but merely for failing to secure business and sanitary permits.
Ordered closed over the weekend are Jaravata Water System (Montana) on Burgos Extension, Armajo Purified Drinking Water on Amado-Tapuac; Aqua Scent on Nable Street; Rebecca’s Water Refilling Station in Tapuac District; and Mega Water (Agua Vida) on Perez Boulevard.
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – There are more women overseas workers in the Ilocos region than men, according to statistics released by the OverseasWorkers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Region 1.
The statistics was bared in connection with the observance of Women’s Month this month when OWWA pays tribute to the struggles and sacrifices of women overseas workers.
OWWA Division Chief Antonio Liwag said OWWA will host here on Friday, Mar. 24 a forum entitled “Coping with Overseas Employment: A Woman’s Point of View”, where women from the government and private sectors will discuss issues pertaining to migration of women workers.
FORMER Pangasinan Gov. Oscar Orbos has denied he was a party to the supposed plan to set up a transition government that could have been formed had the coup attempt against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo succeeded last month.
Orbos was interviewed by newsmen shortly after addressing the Evangelical Business People and Entrepreneurs for Social Transformation (eBest), a business-Christian group, during their convention Monday at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome.
He was reported to have met with Armed Forces Chief of Staff Generoso Senga but Orbos flatly denied having met Senga nor any general or any officer of the AFP for that matter.
THE government will infuse additional P1 billion into the farm sector to increase rice production by at least 300,000 metric tons, the Department of Agriculture said.
The additional funds were deemed necessary by the country’s economic managers to accelerate the growth of the economy this year, Agriculture Secretary Domingo F. Panganiban said recently.
Panganiban pointed out that this would form part of the pump-priming efforts intended to jack up the country’s rice production to 14.9 million metric tons and cut down imports this year. The production target is higher than the 14.6 million metric tons of rice produced last year.
LINGAYEN – The provincial government has given an ultimatum of 10 days to the owner of a barge that ran aground in the shallow waters off sitio Talisay in barangay Macaboboni, Agno since Dec. 18 last year to remove the vessel from the area to prevent further serious environmental damage.
Gov. Victor Agbayani issued the ultimatum through Provincial Administrator and concurrent legal officer Virgilio Solis following an inter-agency meeting on the problem at the Urduja House here on Friday.
The inter-agency meeting was attended by representatives of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippine Coast Guard, Agno Police, municipal government of Agno, barangay council of Macaboboni and members of non-government organizations.
SAYAN INDIO
Mario F. Karateka
BALEG a tepel ed sikayoran kakaaro nen Pare Oca Orbos ed impakalingwan kon bitlaen si datin gobernador tan “host” na programan “Debate” ed telebisyon bilang sakey ed saray nayarin ontagam ed inka-gobernador no bakantean laya nen Gob Victor Agbayani. Pigaray anawag na imanok ed say singa impanitsa-pwerak kono ed inararo dan OMO.
Abitbitlak ira di Mrs. Jamie Agbayani, misis nen Gob; Kongrisman Amado Espino, Bise Gob Oscar Lambino, Kongrisman Conrad Estrella III, tan ingen pati sayay datin Inpormesyon Minister Greg S. Cendana. Alingwanan koy Oca!
Sanen linmadia ya akitoyaw ed saray negosyanten mangikakalar na bilay-Kristiyano dimad Astrodome, si Orbos et inikday maintrigan tepet nen Mama Jun Velasco kono no ombatik ta iya parad Urduja House lamet, balet singa ilaloan, paiwas so ebat na datin gobernador ya natan et sakey ed saray kritikon malet nen Presidente Arroyo.
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