By MERLY TIBALAO

LINGAYEN —The new power firm that took over the operations of the Sual Coal Fired Thermal Power Plant (SCFTPP) has promised to finally settle all the plant’s accumulated financial obligations to the provincial government.

Federico Puno, president and chief executive officer of Team Energy that replaced Mirant Corporation as manager of the power firm last July 15, told Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr that he wanted to start things at the plant “right and clear.”

The Team Energy commitment was made during a top level meeting at the Sual plant’s corporate board room held last Friday. Read more

NEW Dagupan City police Officer-in-charge, Supt Dionisio Borromeo is showing the stuff of which the original Dagupan’s Finest were once made – dedicated, brave and no-nonsense.

His matching action with words has resulted – on just his first day in office – in the arrest of 16, count that, 16 suspected pushers in the city, a record catch by any language. If he keeps at it, we’re sure those infernal peddlers of the stuff in Dagupan who have made the city their playground for years now, may yet move to other safer grounds. Read more

By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

THAT much ballyhooed “first-ever” transport summit being planned by the city administration of Dagupan which is being prompted by the continuing agitation from the ranks of transport operators and drivers certainly has merit.

I am afraid however that, without meaning to doubt or denigrate the capability of the very young Councilor Karlos Reyna, the city council’s chairman on infrastructure and public utilities, the old guys in that chamber are practically feeding wide-eyed Reyna to the lions. Imagine an amateur alderman being ranged against veteran and militant transport leaders in a no-holds-barred confrontation – this, even with side “support” from his peers in the council – and you have the unfolding scenario of a prey tossed into the mouths of giants. Read more

Nen MARIO F. KARATEKA

DUGA MET. Walay punto toniay Bise Alkalde Belen Fernandez ed suriri ton man-aral met iray Pinoy, laotlaray Pangasinenses, na salitan Mandarin na saray Intsik.

Puro Inglis tan Tagalog tayo dia, balet agtayo amta diad arom iran bansa, laotlaray komersiyante, Mandarin la so onkomadua o onkomatlon maslak ya usar a salita da.

Abantayan yo met siguro iramay serye na pelikulan Mano Po no iner nansasalitay Mandarin iray bida ran artista, salet-salet labat so Tagalog tan Inglis.
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By LIWAY M. YPARRAGUIRRE

WITH a vote of 243-202, Urbiztondo number 1 Councilor Raul Sison won against Pozorrubio Councilor Dennis Uy, earning the right to represent his colleagues at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan as sectoral representative.

Coming from the second district of Pangasinan, he practically broke the hold of the fifth district on the Philippine Countilors League (PCL) – Pangasinan chapter.
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By DANNY O. SAGUN

IF YOU haven’t noticed it yet, what the present Urduja House occupant wants, he gets.

But before we get into that, we first congratulate alderman Raul Sison of Urbiztondo for his successful bid on the leadership of the Philippine Councilors’ League Pangasinan chapter. An old hand in the sangguniang bayan of his hometown, he finally got to occupy a higher political post after failing in his vice-mayoral and mayoral bids some years back.
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By LIWAY M. YPARRAGUIRRE

THE Provincial Population Office is looking for ‘champions’ – men who will and can talk bravely about vasectomy without blushing.

But first and foremost, they should have undergone vasectomy procedure themselves to be credible when they explain that contrary to misconceptions, vasectomy will not affect a man’s ability to have erection and perform.

“Grabe ang resistance,”said Dr. Ana Teresa de Guzman, acting provincial health and population officer, on the reaction of Pangasinense men on the vasectomy procedure. Read more

By Liway C. Manantan-
Yparraguirre
ANY postponement of the scheduled barangay election on October 29 will need a new law.

That law must be approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate and signed by President Gloria Arroyo.

This was explained by House Speaker Jose C. de Venecia Jr. yesterday morning after the inauguration of the new San Jacinto Police Station.
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CITY Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. assured on Wednesday that the city government will formulate and implement a labeling system for the Dagupan bangus to prevent deception of consumers due to the unabated influx of ‘alien bangus’ in the city.

Fernandez stressed that “there shall be truth in labeling” and differentiation of the Dagupan bangus from the ‘alien bangus.’

He directed the fisheries management section of the city agriculture’s office and the market division to present an effective and more viable labeling system to set apart the Dagupan bangus, widely known as the tastiest of its kind, from those coming from other sources. Read more

A RANKING city official now wants milkfish produced in other areas banned from the markets of Dagupan in order to protect the locally-produced bangus from being downgraded in its quality.

The official expressed the urgent need to put a stop to the practice of traders who bring in milkfish produced at Laguna de Bay and fishponds in Bulacan near the Manila Bay to the Dagupan market. Read more