“MY administration recognizes the importance of reaching out, the need for cooperation, coordination and teamwork. Exclusion is never an option.”

Thus said comebacking City Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. as he stressed the need to have the best practices in governance continue and introduce new adjustments in fiscal management that will sustain Dagupan City’s economic transformation.

Fernandez said the centerpiece of his administration is to provide “social programs, social order and good strong financial management.” Read the rest of this entry »

HAVE we become a community of super-sensitive, squeamish, soft-touch sissies we can’t take discipline, as schools impose them on our kids, anymore?

This question begs following the spate of media-sensationalized “abuse” of pupils by their teachers or teachers-in-charge, some reaching not just print, broadcast and television media but even the courts.

While we can admit that excessive physical pain inflicted on pupils should not be countenanced or tolerated, some of these may simply be in the nature of giving a rowdy, troublesome kid in school a measure of fear for authority, the way we in our primary Read the rest of this entry »

By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

WITH a (former?) military man at the helm of the province, Pangasinenses expect not just a more disciplined provincial Capitol bureaucracy but a more results-oriented provincial police force too.

That is why we are particularly elated by the seeming energy being put to the anti-drugs campaign lately with a series of successful raids by the cops of Supt. Gani Nerez, provincial police director, on known lairs of drug pushers in the community.

The PAIDSOTG (Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs and Substance Operations Task Group) has been in the news lately after catching highly notorious “tulak” kingpins in Dagupan and Alaminos, complete with video coverages of the actual arrests. Read the rest of this entry »

By DANNY O. SAGUN

IF YOU happen to visit the provincial Capitol these days, better speak in the Pangasinan language especially if you come face to face with Gov. Amado “Spines” Espino, a true-blue Pangasinan-speaking policeman-turned politician from Bautista and Bugallon.

This we learned from Mader Helen of DZMQ Radyo ng Bayan, who related to us Tuesday during our Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency in that station, the first official acts of the new Urduja House occupant last Monday, the first working day for new and re-elected officials. Read the rest of this entry »

Nen MARIO F. KARATEKA

INER, o iner, tan talaga so abong toniay Senyor Rafael Baraan,datin Siti Administreytor na Dagupan a natan et maknol ya pinili nen Gobernador Espino bilang Probinsiyal Administreytor? Sikato ta et taga-Dagupan, taga-Lingayen, taga-Dasol o taga iner a planeta?

Natan, say tua tan peteg a panaayaman tonia so nepeg ya ibawag la, kaibay malet ya ebidensiya, pian amtala na katoowan no aloko toray taga-Dagupan ed inyorong ton Siti Administreytor da ed piga-pigay taon bangta sikato et talagan manaayam ed Lingayen odino Dasol, say nianakan ton baley. Read the rest of this entry »

By YOLANDA Z. SOTELO

ALAMINOS city’s public high schools and elementary schools join the cyberspace through the wireless Internet connectivity project that the city government will provide to them for free, the first of its kind in the country.

Mayor Hernani Braganza has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Trends and Technologies, Inc. for the establishment of an infrastructure system that will provide wireless Internet connection and access for the 42 public schools in the city.

The first phase will cover the seven high schools and four elementary schools and will have a project cost of P7 million. It will have its Hub (center) at the city hall. Read the rest of this entry »

By LIWAY M. YPARRAGUIRRE

THERE are many young children who are talented in athletics but are ‘unequipped.’ For starters, they don’t have the right running shoes or rubber shoes (very expensive), vitamins and right food or diet to help them endure the rigors of training… and later to compete.

What keeps them in the sport perhaps is simply their love to run and to compete.

This again I saw during the PD’s (PSSupt. Isagani Nerez) Marathon 2007 last Saturday morning. (This was actively supported by the Pangasinan PNP Press Corps Inc. led by President Violy Valdez-Ferrer). Read the rest of this entry »

STA. BARBARA – “Every waking day, we will put on one building block and we will build a town that is indeed a model for good and honest government, and a model for peace and prosperity.”

Thus said Mayor Reynaldo Velasco in his inaugural speech last June 30 at the jampacked Daniel Maramba National High School. He vowed to pursue a 10-point agenda, which he presented to the local folks during the campaign period.

Velasco said his 10-point program are “Reform in governance, Education for all, Youth and Sports Development, Values formation and strengthening, Environmental Care and Protection, Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN – The police expressed belief that they are now close to identifying the gunmen in the slaying of San Manuel Vice Mayor Bonie Apilado somewhere in Urdaneta City on June 20 this year.

Police Provincial Director Senior Supt. Isagani Nerez said Task Force Apilado is still working on the case adding that its chances of solving it was boosted soon after the cartographic sketches of the three suspected gunmen were released.
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THE four high school students who were arrested by the police inside their campus last week allegedly gang-raping one of their classmates have been referred to the Department of Social Services and Development.

The suspects will remain under the custody of the DSWD till after their cases filed by the girl and her parents are resolved by the court.

The four, aged from 15 to 17, are in second and third years at the Dagupan City National High School. The victim is a 14-year old girl and in second year. Read the rest of this entry »