By DANNY O. SAGUN
PIA-Pangasinan

FOUR overseas workers forced by the Israel-Hezbollah conflict to rush back home were immediately hired during the jobs fair at the Leisure Coast Resort which coincided with the North Luzon Quadrangle Agribusiness (NLQA) meeting last Thursday.

Three domestic helpers from Lebanon were placed for DH jobs in Kuwait, while one was hired as sales lady in Kuwait. Recruitment agency Jones International hired them without asking for placement fees.
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MALASIQUI – A barangay kagawad of neighboring Calasiao town has been identified as the slain man in a Thursday early dawn shootout in barangay Cabatling between town policemen and car-riding group of thieves.

Marlon S. Papio whose bloodied body was found by a police alert team not far from where the theft suspects’ Mercedes Benz ditched in a canal during a police chase, was identified by relatives who heard about the shootout from radio reports.
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A PAPER bill of 5 Lira (Lebanese legal tender equivalent to P150) found by a young Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) inside a washing machine in her employer’s home in Bromana, Lebanon spelled luck for her eventual escape from that war-torn country.

Jennilyn Caacbay, 23, from barangay Concordia, Bolinao, Pangasinan, decided to take the money and thought she could use the amount for her fare to Beirut, some two kilometers away, where she can locate the Philippine embassy to ask for help.
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SAN MANUEL – The San Roque Dam, Asia’s second highest hydro-electric dam located here, is not the culprit for the recent floods that destroyed crops and properties in central Pangasinan and even as far south as Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and Bulacan.

Officials of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) that operates the San Roque Dam, presented a satellite photo that they hope could absolve dam management from any criminal or civil responsibility for the floods that may have happened in areas far from the lower stream of the Agno river.
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NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur – Win or loss, he is still our champion.

This was the reaction of close relatives of Filipino-Hawaiian boxer Brian Viloria who lost in only his second defense of the World Boxing Council (WBC) light flyweight crown to a more aggressive Mexican challenger Omar Niño Romero via unanimous decision last Friday (Manila Time) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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By: Venus May H. Sarmiento

PHILIPPINE Navy Sailors and Marines will join U.S. Sailors and Coast Guardsmen in a series of community service projects during this week’s Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) maritime security exercise.

In addition to conducting important military training together, this series of projects with the Philippines and U.S. Navies fosters mutual cooperation and goodwill between military forces and the civilian population.
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NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur – Five members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) operating in Northern Luzon, one of them an Amazon, surrendered to military authorities in Sta. Lucia town.

A report of Col. Harold Cabreros, commander of the Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion based in barangay Guimod Sur in San Juan, Ilocos Sur, identified the surrenderers as Anastacio Ramirez, alias Hajie, 27; Jerwin Habon, alias ‘Romel’, a student; and Ronie Arquero, 27, all of barangay Bani in Sta. Lucia, Ilocos Sur; and Nestor Habon, 31, of barangay Quimmarin, Salcedo, Ilocos Sur.
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By: VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
PIA-Pangasinan Infocenter

FOR the first time in many years, we have money to spend for roads, bridges, ports and airports through intensified revenue collection and additional fund sources and not by selling government assets to fund the national deficit, a top national official said Thursday.

Super Region Champion-designate, Secretary Arthur Yap, revealed in a press conference for the 1st North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle (NLAQ) held in Dagupan City Thursday that the total budget for the irrigation programs, airports, ports and road improvements stands at P23 billion from the SONA commitments but the Medium Term Philippine Investment Plan could well reach P370 billion while the total national program could total P1 trillion. Read the rest of this entry »

IN THE unraveling telenovela that is the controversial nursing board examinations, one cannot anymore tell who, or what, is the villain – the legion of hopeful nurses left in the lurch by that last-minute order stopping the mass oathtaking last week, or the Court of Appeals (and by inference, the law) ruling that a temporary restraining order must be issued in order to protect any possible irreparable damage on complainants if the original action is to proceed or be allowed.

One thing sure, the nursing board examinees are polarized now, though they may not so intend to be – one group urging a halt to any oath-taking while asking for heads to roll before a new exam is conducted altogether and another, praying to high heavens that their years of sacrifice and studies be not rendered asunder by making them take yet another test even as they must suffer a cloud of doubt about their mass integrity.
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By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR

GMA-7 appears to have developed some fondness for issues Pangasinan and Dagupan City of late. For those in the know, the reason, or cause, should be simple. But those who are clueless, like some trike driver- friends of ours, think those Imbestigador and other exposes are products of spontaneous, accidental sally-forths of the I-team in any territory in the countryside, you know, like just-passing-by-and-saw-or-heard-of-these kind of things.

It is no accident that GMA-7 has got local veteran newshounds and newshens plus a host of roaming tipsters nestled in its top-rating radio station based here, DZSD-Super Radyo. While Mike Enriquez’s team does have its own unconventional ways of probing a theme or topic, a whole lot of useful info gets to them thru local hands, that’s a, uh, given.. Read the rest of this entry »