By: Venus May H. Sarmiento
PIA Dagupan Infocenter

URDANETA CITY – The Department of Health led by Secretary Francisco Duque III strongly urged all local government units and health care workers to find ways to eliminate childhood diseases that are vaccine preventable.

Duque made the call to action during the launching of the Garantisadong Pambata (GP) program in Pangasinan attended by representatives of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, DOH- Center for Health Development and health workers.

Graantisadong Pambata is a package of services for children 0-11 months old consisting of the ‘FOURmula for Health’ – Vitamin A supplementation, immunization, breastfeeding and deworming. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Venus May H. Sarmiento
PIA Pangasinan Infocenter

ELECTRIC cooperatives, power utilities and representatives of the Commission on Elections, Philippine National Police and the media sector attended a ‘power meeting’ Tuesday in Dagupan City called by the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) to present their contingency plans to ensure the steady flow of electricity on election day.

“Pinaka-critical ang ilaw sa eleksyon.” TransCo department manager Jose Arellano said, ”Namatay lang ang ilaw sandali, people will think and argue that cheating has occurred.” Read the rest of this entry »

POVERTY alleviation, quality education and livelihood programs.

Dagupan City mayoralty candidate Brian S. Lim said that these are the three major issues in the city that team New-Po (New Politics) will address as part of its platform of government during the Patrima (Pangasinan Tri-Media Association, Inc.) Kapihan on April 19 at Masarap grill, Magiclub.

“Aside from fostering clean and honest governance, team New-Po will focus on these three issues (that) need immediate attention,” the young Lim said. Read the rest of this entry »

THIRTY-TWO election officers in Pangasinan are being reshuffled, mostly because they had been staying in their present areas of assignment for more than four years already.

Provincial Election Supervisor Reddy Balarbar said 28 of these election officers have stayed in their present areas of assignment for more than four years and therefore due for re-assignment even for a temporary period.

The reshuffle already started after the Holy Week and is continuing, he said. Read the rest of this entry »

NOTED Pangasinan nutritionist and Israel scholar Catherine B. Velasco, wife of journalist Jun Velasco, graduated last Friday with a doctorate degree in philosophy, major in education management, during the commencement rites of the Benguet State University in La Trinidad, Benguet.

A professor and International Practicum Training program coordinator of the HRM program of the University of Pangasinan, former dean of Lyceum Northwestern University College of Tourism, and former manager of the Pangasinan State University HRM Training Center, Velasco is at present with the wellness program of Nestle Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »

TWENTY-ONE year old Vernon Estrada Bugayong of Mangaldan, Pangasinan recently passed the Licensure Examination given by the Board of Electronics and Communications Engineering last April 11 and 12, 2007.

He is among the 889 who hurdled the difficult test that registered only a 35% passing average for the total 2,534 examinees who took it.

Vernon, son of Mr. Joselito Bugayong, Jr a, barangay kagawad of Mangaldan and the former Marietta Estrada, a former bank executive of United Coconut Planters Bank, was a consistent Read the rest of this entry »

“IT is my vow to make Sta. Barbara a model town in governance, peace and progress.”

Thus said retired Police General Reynaldo V. Velasco, now the leading mayoralty candidate in his native town of Sta. Barbara, following a recent 30-minute interview with ABS-CBN’s Halalan 2007 hosted by Mae Viray.

Velasco was the lone retired police and military general featured with two other panelists from the Bayan Muna and a university student council president. Read the rest of this entry »

A PETITION has been filed against a woman candidate for councilor in Calasiao town for not being a registered voter in the municipality.

The petition was filed against Raquel Victoria Lim, a candidate for councilor under the PDP-Laban whose name could not be found in the list of voters in Calasiao town.

Lim, actually born in Calasiao, is running for councilor under the ticket of former Calasiao Mayor Celso de Vera. Read the rest of this entry »

CANDON CITY – The OIC district engineer of Ilocos Sur was critically wounded when he was gunned down by unidentified suspects inside his office in Barangay San Nicolas here at noon last Wednesday.

Senior Superintendent George Regis, Ilocos Sur police director, identified the victim as Percival Bitonio, 57, of the province’s 2nd Engineering District based in San Nicolas, Candon City. He is from barangay Bannuar, San Juan, Ilocos Sur.

The victim is the husband of San Juan town mayoralty candidate Amelia Bitonio, an independent candidate. Read the rest of this entry »

A SCHOOL TEACHER from barangay Unzad in Villasis town is in hot water after a pupil whose ear she twisted on March 30 died about two weeks later.

The police identified the suspect as Zenaida Macaban, teacher at the Unzad Elementary School in Villasis who was accused of causing an injury on the ear of eight-year old Regine Datuin, 8, a Grade III pupil.

A police report said the incident happened inside the classroom when Macaban was apparently irked over the girl victim, who was then among several pupils attending Macaban’s class. Read the rest of this entry »