By DANNY O. SAGUN
PIA Pangasinan Infocenter
ABOUT 70 percent of the city’s garbage is no longer dumped at the garbage site in Tondaligan following a tightened implementation of the waste segregation law, Reginald Ubando of the waste management division said Thursday.
He admitted however that the garbage collection and disposal system has yet to be perfected particularly in problematic areas like the central business district and other barangays where local officials are not so cooperative in implementing Republic Act 9003, which mandates barangays to take the lead in garbage collection and disposal.
The business district accounts for about 50 percent of the total garbage in the city. The problem of the concerned barangays is where to put up their materials recovery facility (MRF) due to lack of available space. Ubando said his office still assists these barangays in their daily garbage collection activities.
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PANGASINAN leaders belonging to Biskeg na Pangasinan (Strength of Pangasinan) moved to strengthen their ranks through the “cleansing and purging” of its membership across the province.
In its board meeting held at Inn Asia Saturday night here, the group agreed to adopt stricter measures in its membership so that “officials with good intentions and selfless interest”, two of the most important values a member must possess, will be accepted as part of the newly accredited political party.
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POZORRUBIO – Follow up police operations to the arrest of a so-called “marijuana queen” of La Union and Pangasinan netted six more compacted bricks of dried marijuana, all weighing six kilos, from a farmer-courier believed to be a member of the same group as Tessie Acquisio, 32 of Santol, La Union, a top woman drugs courier in the region, who was arrested earlier.
Arrested by the same composite team of lawmen on Caballero street in Pozorrubio was Ruben Gum-uyen, 45, a farmer from sitio Bibio, in San Gabriel, La Union.
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MALASIQUI – Another village chief of this town was killed Sunday afternoon during a drinking spree.
The fatality was identified as Barangay Captain Nicasio Cardenas, 50, of barangay Ican here. The incident happened at about 3:30 p.m. in front of a sari-sari store.
Cardenas was stabbed in the left armpit. He was rushed to the Malasiqui Municipal Hosptial then transferred to the Villaflor Hospital in Dagupan City where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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TAYUG – A ranking police officer in Pangasinan is in hot water for cutting matured trees beside the compound of the Camp Narciso Ramos here without waiting for the approval of a permit he sought from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Supt. Ruben Catabona, group director of the 107th Police Mobile Group (PMG), may face a court suit for cutting 11 Gmelina and other matured trees inside the camp even before he can receive a permit for the action from the DENR.
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FILIPINO migration to the United States of America has had a long and colorful history. Scholars point out that Filipinos were in North America even before the end of the Spanish era. Findings of Filipino researcher Marina Espina point to the existence of a Filipino colony in Louisiana as early as 1763.
“Manilamen”, as they were commonly called, were the very first Asian immigrants to settle in the American continent after jumping ship because of harsh working conditions in Spanish galleons manned by them.
Despite such earlier landings however, scholars consider those who left during the period 1906 to 1919 as the first wave of Filipino migration to the Untied States, including Alaska and Hawaii, due to the organized and regular nature of their migration.
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Sayan Indio
Mario F. Karateka
ANGGAD natan manliliknay sulit iray agagi tayon Indonesians ed samay agawan maksil a yegyeg dimad bansa ra. No manbabantay kayoy TV, wadman kalamor so libon pamilya ya manaayam ed paway, diad saray dalan tan arom niran lukas a pasen.
Insan nen Sabado, asamalan ni so singa anem lasus ed sikara ed saray rasyon tan tulong ya kakanen. Nakar day ospital, maong labat ta anggapomet amo so inatey.
Diad sikatayo ey, susto kasi so preparasyon tayo no bilang, yarawi komon, et walay baleg a yegyeg dia a singa samay, o mas nen samay, dinalan tayo nen Hulyo 16, 1990? Komon diad igapo na klase nabuas, Hunyo a-cinco, ikdan na DepEd so onian panagtarya parad emerdyensi. Anggapolay mas makapasinagem no walay kalamidad no ag say saray ogogaw mismo so nadesyang odino naandiay bilay. Tariwa ni ed nonot so agawad saray ogogaw ya estudyante dimad Guinsaugon ed sawdern Leyte nen dinaluyon ira na makapal a pitek manlalapud ageban palandey kasompal na agontondan oran.
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EDITORIAL
THEY must really have their own compelling reasons to want governmental intervention but the request of two universities in Dagupan City for an ordinance to regulate activities of fraternities right in their campuses is fraught with unpleasant implications.
While Mayor Benjamin S. Lim may have already added his voice to just such a proposal made earlier by the Lyceum University and the University of Pangasinan to the sangguniang panlungsod headed by Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez, it does not detract from the fact that any exercise of state or police power over student activities, granted that these are prone to serious mischief, mocks student freedom and insults academic autonomy.
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After All
Behn Fer. Hortaleza
We just had to write this one. Last Friday evening, we watched silently enthralled inside a restaurant (not one of those swanky, fancy dining places but an ordinary but popular one in the city) as a typical laborer’s family (no offense meant really now, but it was quite obvious from the outward appearance of the characters they were of the hoi poloi) gorged, literally gorged, on the food at the table. No pretenses, no conscious table manner observance, no frills in their dining clothes – but definitely with money to burn. For the food ordered at least.
We were watching, we were mused, one of the thousands of poor Pinoy families eking out a living in a nation now flapping its wings at having achieved for the first quarter of the year a 5.5 gross domestic product (GDP), up from something lower for the same period last year, or so the NEDA says.
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The Pen Speaks
Danny O. Sagun
SANDO bags, the most common container or wrapper these days, are spurned by garbage salvagers to the surprise — and worry — of environmentalists.
Reggie Ubando who heads the Dagupan city waste management division wonders why those young boys and girls scavenging at dumpsites (now called MRF or materials recovery facility) for a living just leave those plastic bags behind. They salvage almost everything – tins, cans, bottles, cartons, nails – but not the plastics. Obviously, junk buyers are not interested.
This poses a big problem for Reggie and his men. “Containment” was his answer to our question during the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program over DZMQ last Thursday when we asked him what he does with all those plastic bags just thrown around.
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