A FILIPINO-AMERICAN doctor donated last Saturday a high-technology equipment called bronchoscope, costing half a million pesos, to the Region 1 Medical Center here.

Dr. Pedro Dayrit, a gastroenterologist, who works at the Memorial Hospital in Salem County, New Jersey and at the St. Francis Hospital in Delaware, handed over the modern medical equipment to R1MC officials led by Dr. Jesus T. Canto, hospital director.

Dayrit is married to Dr. Elmina Margarita Fernandez, a neurologist, daughter of Immigration Commissioner and Mrs. Alipio Fernandez of Dagupan City. The couple are both U.S.- based.
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THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has no stand yet on the proposal to arm judges and lawyers in the face of violence and threats against some of them.

Lawyer Feleciano Bautista, national executive vice president of the IBP, said they are carefully studying the proposal yet.

Offhand, Bautista said that there are already many firearms around and arming other people might confound the many violence happening in country.
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LINGAYEN – Pangasinan-speaking Jehovah’s Witnesses will hold their three-day “Deliverance at Hand” District Convention at the Don Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center here on December 22 to 24, and on December 29 to 31.
Convention organizers said the spiritual gathering will feature talks and symposia demonstrations, true-life stories and experiences and a Bible-based drama highlighting God’s promised deliverance from the present world. Seventy other conventions are scheduled in 32 cities nationwide during November and December. Read the rest of this entry »

THE National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) appealed to local government and barangay officials in typhoon-ravaged areas in the Bicol Region to help the state-owned corporation hasten the restoration of electricity in the area by protecting the fallen transmission line cables, tower parts and transmission line materials from looters.

TransCo president Arthur Aguilar said the state firm is doing al it can to speed up the restoration of transmission lines but is hampered severely when its linemen rushing to repair the lines find that transmission line materials are missing.
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THE Dagupan City government spearheaded a tie-up project with the Phil-Japan Gijutsu Iten Foundation, Inc (PJGIFI) for an orientation and training for Dagupeños who wish to work in Japan.

More than a hundred applicants from Dagupan and other towns in Pangasinan attended the on-the-dot orientation for Japan job aspirants held at the Dagupan Business Center, Astrodome building.
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LINGAYEN – The Provincial Health Office has formed the first-ever Provincial Employees Diabetes Association (PEDA) in a bid to combat diabetes, one of the top 10 causes of death in the province.

Dr. Jackson D. Soriano, OIC-provincial health officer, pointed out the need to closely monitor people afflicted with the ailment and to help them recover together with members of their families.
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A LADY lawyer and member of the city council here has proposed stiffer measures against the flesh trade soon after a report in a national television network tagged Dagupan as “prostitution capital of Pangasinan”.

Incensed by the report which she considers as damaging and hurtful to the people of the city, Councilor Farah Decano said she filed a draft ordinance seeking to supplement whatever may be lacking in existing laws, such as the Revised Penal Code and the Anti-Trafficking of Persons Act. Read the rest of this entry »

THE Commission on Election is not satisfied with the turnout of voter’s registration nationwide.

This was revealed by Dagupan City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo who said that the poll body has come up with a measure to remedy the situation.

Ravanzo, a lawyer, said the Commission has promulgated Comelec Resolution No. 7684 ordering the conduct of registration on Sundays in offices of election officers nationwide, including three municipalities in the National Capital Region. Read the rest of this entry »

THE historic Home Economics building of the West Central Elementary School in Dagupan City where General Douglas Mac Arthur stayed after he landed in the Dagupan
Blue Beach on Jan. 9, 1945 to begin the liberation of Luzon is now being restored through the initiative of the National Historical Institute (NHI).

The restoration work was inspected on Wednesday by Rey Inovero, NHI chief, and his assistant Louie Valerio, an architect; together with Dagupan City Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez and Carmen Prieto, the city’s heritage commissioner.

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THE remnants of the old Franklin bridge here that was destroyed by a big flood in 1953, to which Dagupeños have a special attachment, will be preserved as a memento of the past to the present and future generations.

This was assured during a dialogue called by the city’s Heritage Commission with officials of the city engineer’s office and Toyo Construction, a Japanese contractor which is now building a P903 bridge across the Pantal river.

The dialogue was necessary to ensure that Toyo Construction will not touch the remnants of the old Franklin bridge which stands a few meters from the bank of the Calmay river. Read the rest of this entry »