Truth at its Most Brilliant
HERE GOES! A new member of the Scout Rangers of the PNP Regional Mobile Group based in La Union under Recom 1 Class 2001-2006 prepares to jump down on harness from a building in mock exercises for anti-terrorism operations. The government has lately stepped up police and military trainings on counter-terrorism even in areas relatively free from terrorist target plans. (PIA Photo by Sebz Aguinaldo)
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) is now validating the resurgence of jueteng in Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte.
Supt. Harris Fama, information officer of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, said an anti-gambling task force from CIDG is now in Pangasinan to validate the alleged jueteng comeback.
URDANETA CITY — Property owners along the Mac Arthur Highway as well as part of the Maharlika Highway here have agreed to set back their existing business establishments and residential houses by several meters in the name of progress.
Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez said the project will ensure that both stretches will comply with the 20-kilometer width requirement for national highways.
WORK on the biggest infrastructure project yet in Dagupan in recent years will soon start, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways.
DPWH Regional Director Fidel Ginez said the P900 million new Pantal bridge, funding of which was already made available by the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation in Tokyo, is about to start.
AN official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has deftly steered clear of directly answering City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim’s pointed observation that BFAR had failed to inform his office on results of river coliform samplings which the agency conducted recently.
Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the BFAR’s National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center only confirmed that some portions of the rivers in Dagupan City were really found to be high in coliform level.
By DANNY O. SAGUN
GOVERNMENT needs to strike a balance in the development or exploitation of the country’s wealth as the country attempts to open its doors to foreign investors, Vice-Gov. Oscar B. Lambino pointed out Thursday.
Lambino, guesting at the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency over Radyo ng Bayan-DZMQ, said that lack of capital hampers the government to fully exploit or develop the country’s natural resources so it needs to invite foreign investors.
By DANNY O. SAGUN
LINGAYEN – The province is eyeing another Land Bank loan of P300 million to fund the repair of irrigation systems in the province and continue the provincial government’s “roads and bridges program,” Provincial Administrator Virgilio Solis said Friday.
Solis said that the proposed P1 billion-irrigation component of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project in San Manuel was deemed shelved after Marubeni Corp. of Japan which was to fund and undertake the project backed out. Strident opposition from affected sectors fanned by an activist group apparently caused the Japanese government to change its mind.
NAGA CITY – Sixteen-year-old sprinter Rhemilyn Soriano of Laoac snared the first gold medal for Team Pangasinan as the Palarong Pambansa shifted to high gear last week at the sprawling sports stadium here.
Soriano easily breezed to the finish line in the 100-meter race finals, beating her closest rival from Western Visayas.
The young sprinter from Laoac National High School also bagged silver in the long jump, just minutes after she grabbed her first gold.
Soriano could have won the gold in that event had she not been obliged to run in the 200-meter finals scheduled just before the long jump event. She was still panting when her turn to make the long jump came.
LINGAYEN – Governor Victor E. Agbayani announced yesterday that the province through the provincial health office will step up the implementation of vital health programs such as the expansion of the free health insurance coverage for indigent families, hospital reforms and BCG or anti-TB immunization program among grade one pupils province-wide.
Under the Kalusugan sa Barangay “TB ay Iwasan, Bata ay Pabakunahan” program, a total of 62,193 grade one pupils have been given BCG vaccination.
HOUSE Speaker Jose De Venecia, Jr. said the proposal for charter change is on track, either through the people’s initiative or through constituent assembly.
In a talk to newsmen here last Thursday, de Venecia said whichever of the two comes out first will do, because both seek to effect vital amendments to the 1987 Constitution.
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