By VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
PIA-Dagupan Infocenter
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue in Region I is the nationwide topnotcher in collection, percentage- wise, a top BIR official revealed.
A total collection of P5,054,409,851.41 from the region’s six revenue district offices as of September 29, 2006 surpassed its P4 billion collection goal—or an equivalent of 50,12% increase. It was enough to land the region in first place in collection of performance.
BIR Regional Director Alfredo Balicanta, speaking at the weekly Patrima Kapihan held at the Philippine Information Agency office last Thursday and aired over DZMQ Radyo ng Bayan Dagupan, was overjoyed with the feat and attributes the success to all the taxpayers in the region.
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Filed under News, Provincial News by The Pangasinan Star.
BEFORE it becomes another big national issue swept under the rug, the criminal offense of those who leaked the Nursing board exam questions must be met with an equal, if not higher resolve, by government to punish the guilty.
By guilty, we mean not the thousands of examinees who may or may not have used and benefited from the leakage but the very authorities, in or out of government, who first passed or kicked the dirty ball down the line.
The past weeks when concerned agencies including the Senate began investigating the examination scandal, with a star witness confronting the head of a review center supposedly involved in the leakage and vice versa, televiewers were treated to the spectacle of arrogance and mocking stance –pouting mouth, smirks, wry smiles and all — coming from the fingered review center official.
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Filed under Editorials by The Pangasinan Star.
By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
EASILY the most interesting congressional district political fight, and you can ask any hard-nosed media practitioners about this, is the third district derby amongst the heir-hopefuls of “graduating” Rep. Gener Tulagan.
Already, guts-and-glitter personalities like Rachel Arenas, daughter of ultra-popular socialite Rosemarie ‘Baby” Arenas; top Customs official and scion of a great political clan in San Carlos, Gallant D. Soriano; veteran local government executive Leo “Boy’de Vera; Gener’s own son, Jun Tulagan and retired police general Rey Velasco are kicking up their own political dust with each day that passes.
With the protagonists all known allies, friends or supporters of Undersecretary Antonio “Bebot” Villar, Jr., founder (chairman-emeritus?) of the newest local political party, Biskeg-Pangasinan, it’s anybody guess whose coin the Sto. Tomas fountain will eventually bless.
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Filed under Opinions, After All by The Pangasinan Star.
Nen MARIO F. KARATEKA
AKAPASYARAK lamet ed Dagupena Restaurant nen retiradon Huwes Alex tan Atchi Emma Bernal-Castro dimad balon pasen to ed Calasiao tan anengneng kon sankarakpan a desisyon day pamilya Bernal-Castro so intaynan dad datin puesto da ed mismon A. B. Fernandez Avenue ed Dagupan.
Amalet so parokyanos ton karaklan et saray walad alta-sosyedad, saray piguran publiko tan ingen pami-pamilyan say anap da mareen tan “singa abong” ya pasen. No antoy masimpit ya impangegna na Dagupena ed imahen ton sakey a “wholesome” tan pampamilyan restawran ed dati tan orihinal a lugar to, lalon singa pinarakep so atraksion tod saray mapilid pananganan dan restoran. Kanian, agi, mansasbi ra. Kulang la ingen so panaga-parkingan na luluganan kanian anggad samay kaabay a loten bakante et nasosorob daray parokyanos na restoran, basta makapangan ira labat ed Dagupena.
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Filed under Opinions, Sayan Indio by The Pangasinan Star.
By LIWAY C. MANANTAN-YPARRAGUIRRE
MY town Laoac (my family used to live in barangay Cabilaoan), will no longer be as quiet and sluggish. .
This is because of its knight in shining armor, fifth district Congressman Mark O. Cojuangco.
Farming is the main source of livelihood here. No factories, no warehouses, nothing but farm lands (which are practically of no use during dry season). Some of the townsfolk are lucky enough to have families working abroad, mostly in Europe.
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How did Cong. Mark become its knight in shining armor? Well, he gifted my town with water and milk (which will be coming soon).
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Filed under Opinions, Smorgasbord by The Pangasinan Star.
By YOLANDA Z. SOTELO
MEN, by and large, can be so protective of their “manhood” that even the women could not convince the menfolk in their villages to undergo voluntary surgical sterilization (VSS).
There are 1,897 Barangay Service Point Officers (BSPOs), almost all of them women, who are volunteer workers of the population program in Pangasinan which has 1,333 villages.
According to records of the Provincial Population Office (PPO), there are villages with two or more BSPOs while some BSPOs cover two or more villages.
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Filed under Opinions, Whatever by The Pangasinan Star.
By DANNY O. SAGUN
PHILIPPINE forest products are of superior quality that home builders prefer these over imported ones. “Ito yong kabaliktaran sa ibang produkto,” noted Provincial Environment and Natural resources Officer Rogel Pimentel at our weekly Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency over Radyo ng Bayan-DZMQ last Tuesday.
Co-anchor Helen B nodded in agreement as she noted that other imported products (except perhaps those budget-friendly articles from China ranging from shoes and apparel to cellphone accessories, we may add) cost much much more but are highly preferred over locally-made ones.
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Filed under Uncategorized, Opinions, The Pen Speaks by The Pangasinan Star.
HEALTH authorities in the region are monitoring three reported cases of the dreaded disease called capillarisis that were noted in Ilocos region since March this year.
Health Regional Director Eduardo Janairo said the case downed three farmers in a town in La Union. They were treated at the Ilocos Region Training Hospital in San Fernando City.
“We are monitoring the condition of the three farmers. We want to know if these are primary cases, meaning the disease came from the area, or probably from another area,” Janairo told newsmen.
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Filed under News, Provincial News by The Pangasinan Star.
DAGUPAN officials have not lost hope that business will soon perk up in the two-year old Malimgas Public Market, tagged as the most modern public market ever built yet in northern Luzon.
Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez said the city council will soon conduct a committee hearing to gauge the sentiment of the public if the proposed 50 percent discount for the stallholders in the second floor of the market will result in 100 percent occupancy.
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Filed under News, Provincial News by The Pangasinan Star.
DAGUPAN City’s competitiveness and performance continues to improve over the years based on the overall rating given by the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Policy Center during their roadshow presentation on the city’s state of competitiveness on October 5.
Out of the ten most competitive small-sized cities, Dagupan scored the highest in quality of human resources and infrastructure, ranking first and third respectively.
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Filed under News, Provincial News by The Pangasinan Star.
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