LINGAYEN– The Provincial Health Office is keeping a close watch on the possible outbreak of dengue following an increase in the number of dengue cases at the onset of the rainy season.

PHO Officer-in-Charge Anna Ma. Theresa S. de Guzman said some 389 persons have been afflicted by dengue during the past seven months from January to August. Out of this number, seven have died, including the latest victim, Jerico Tabucao, a seven-year old from Brgy. Bacag in Villasis town last July 27. Read the rest of this entry »

WE are glad House Speaker Jose C. de Venecia has finally come around to personally and publicly sound the call to the cops of Regional Police Director Pol Bataoil and Provincial Police Director Isagani Nerez for the arrest, repeat, arrest of drugs and gambling lords in Pangasinan, especially in the fourth district, his district.

He’s right, the Speaker’s correct: “Only when we arrest wrongdoers and those who would prostitute our province and our youth can we make them believe that we mean business.” Read the rest of this entry »

By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

THERE’ are killings everywhere in San Carlos City. And fellow mediamen here are one in the assessment that this blood-spilling – especially last week when three, count that, three gunslayings were committed – cannot be “isolated” cases as a ranking police officer of Pangasinan prefers to call it.

The situation has gotten to the point where many people, especially residents, are beginning to think it’s the pre-martial law San Carlos all over again when the city earned the monicker of Tombstone City (after the famous, if legendary, American West city of gunslingers and bounty hunters). Read the rest of this entry »

By YOLLY Z. SOTELO

FROM dawn to early morning daily, about 600 persons receive the same inspirational text message on their mobile phones. The messages are passages from the Bible or the Koran, or quotations from motivational books.

The messages do not come from mobile phone companies and the recipients do not pay to receive them. They are religiously sent daily by Ashok Vasandani, an Indian national who started the “mission” to touch the people’s heart more than three years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

By DANNY O. SAGUN
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IT’S GOOD the city government is moving to contain the proliferation of “alien” bangus in the city’s fish market. Yes, many have been fooled to buy milkfish that tastes like mud – maablir.. But the problem is not only the taste. The flesh of the alien bangus is hard or rigid unlike that of the Bonuan bangus which is soft

Mayor Al Fernandez wants proper labeling of the milkfish sold in the bagsakan area in the Magsaysay market. Such measure will properly inform buyers whether the fish comes from the fishponds of the city or from other areas. We learned that milkfish from as far as Laguna and Bulacan find their way to the Magsaysay market. Read the rest of this entry »

Nen MARIO F. KARATEKA

ANDI, aliwalan tua may ibabagay matatakken ya lapag so oran.

Natan, anggan diad Pangasinan, aliwan lapag so oran ta anggaman say sentral tan partey este et abayoboan la na maksil ya oran nen imbebeneg a samba, dimad arom a baley na Pangasinan a singa Infanta, Mabini tan kabangibang a lugar, no aliling to amaganira. No walaman so oran, walsik labat so sinmabi.

Kanian saray dumaralos laotlad saray “rain-fed areas” a tatawagen et kitangay-tangay nirad tawen parad senyales na oran, pian makapantanem lara. Read the rest of this entry »

By Liway C. Manantan- Yparraguirre

OF the four cities in Pangasinan, it is only Alaminos City that does not have a big college or university. The first district is very wide yet there are no universities that could really address the educational needs of the people especially the poor.

There is a PSU campus in Infanta but it basically offers agriculture courses, I think.

This corner learned that one of the medium term development plans of the city government is to put up a city college just like Urdaneta City. Read the rest of this entry »

CITY Treasurer Romelita Alcantaraa said if the city rents out the third floor of the Malimgas Public Market to call center outfits — now said to be eyeing Dagupan City for their location — at P200 to P250 per square meter per month, Dagupan will realize no sensational income but still a substantial one.

She said although the rental is minimal it is nevertheless better than the almost nil income the city is generating today when the market’s third floor is serving only as a pay parking area. Read the rest of this entry »

SAN JACINTO- House Speaker Jose De Venecia Jr. called on the police to arrest drug lords and gambling lords operating in Pangasinan, particularly in his own fourth district, in order to set the example for the whole nation.

In a speech he delivered during the inauguration of the newly-built police station here, De Venecia said the police chiefs, provincial chief and regional police chief must see to it that they arrest narcotics and gambling lords to set the example for the whole nation. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN-The police has affirmed its initial finding that the slaying of a lawyer from San Carlos City, Conrado Soriano, alias “Pac-pac”,54, Monday noon on Mabini street in San Carlos is possibly work-related.

Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Isagani Nerez disclosed this after coming out from a case conference attended by representatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Intelligence and Investigation Division of the Police Provincial Office, PNP Crime Laboratory and San Carlos Police, all comprising the newly formed Task Force Soriano.
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