ALAMINOS CITY – The provincial board is conducting a province-wide consultation with municipal and city mayors on the plan to devolve the position of sanitary inspectors to municipal and city governments.

Vice Governor Marlyn Primicias-Agabas said that at present, the provincial government is shouldering the salaries of 47 municipal and sanitary inspectors, which is a big drain to the scarce resources of the province. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN – Several high-powered firearms and ammunitions were seized by the police in a raid at the residence of an alleged leader of a cattle rustling syndicate in western Pangasinan.

Federly Namoca of barangay Ranao, Bani is now facing a case for violation of Presidential Decree No. 1866 as amended by Republic Act 8294 for illegal possession of firearms. Read the rest of this entry »

A MILD fishkill that broke out in Dagupan City last week caused P186,000 in opportunity losses to fish farmers engaged in the culture of milkfish (bangus).

City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina said the fishkill was caused by oxygen depletion in the water that occurred during neap tide caused by the changing face of the moon, a natural occurrence.

The fishkill occurred in parts of barangay Pugaro, Salapingao, Lomboy and sitio Sabangan in Bonuan Gueset. Read the rest of this entry »

SEALED and delivered.

The provincial government has collected from Team Sual Corporation the sum of P160.8 million, representing the Sual Coal Fired Power Thermal Plant’s (SCFPTP) real property tax liabilities covering the period January 1, 2006 to December, 2007.

An SCFPTP check in the amount of P160,838,136.58 was handed over by Team Sual Corporation president Federico Puno to Pangasinan Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. immediately after the signing of a memorandum of agreement at the power plant last week. Read the rest of this entry »

THE lucky breaks are going the Espino administration’s way, it seems – and the P160.8 million windfall it received in payment of Mirant (now team Energy’s) accumulated real property taxes due the province should give it the much-needed shot in the arm for more socio-economic development projects for Pangasinan.

Now it is just possible that the expenditure priority for the Sual power plant tax payment bonanza will just have to be redirected or reassigned – from mainly the former Camp Victory sports program of the Agbayani administration to some other priorities of the new governor and sanggunian. No, we don’t believe Espino would be scrapping the Camp Victory sports program altogether, but just the same it would probably suffer Read the rest of this entry »

By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

JUST as our editorial of the previous issue predicted, Filipinos generally took the guilty verdict on Erap calmly and all the jitters and anxiety among administration figures including Malacanang about any wave of protests in the wake of the Sandiganbayan decision proved unfounded.

Maybe it was the overwhelming presence of Calderon’s and Esperon’s troops ringing key points in Manila that did the trick, Perhaps it was the accused and now convict Erap’s own calm physical acceptance of the verdict in the courtroom that signaled the supporters for serenity. It may have also been because of plain people power fatigue – and so the expected millions of angry protesters just didn’t materialize in the streets.
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AGMOMET natetel, Inong, so saray matalisiw iran negosyantey bangus ya para eksport diad Dagupan no medyo napagaan irad planona siyudad ya sikato ( gobyerno’y siyudad) so mamabatik na samay planon “fish processing plant” ya pondoan daray Koreano.

Diad antikey a salita, baleg so duda daranian negosyantey siran pang-eksport ya nasabiy agew kompetensiyaen na say gobyerno so bisnis da ta lanti nawalaan lad satan na saray pers klas iran pasilidades so gobyerno ya mangitarya tan mangi-pakeyds na sira, laotla bangus, parad eksport. Natan, sarayan negosyante labat so walaan na onian teknolohiya ya nangastosan da met na baleg tan direktan mitatalusan larad saray sumasaliw ed arom a bansa, nagkalaotla say Estados Unidos. Read the rest of this entry »

By DANNY O. SAGUN

SIX years after the ouster of the very popular Erap Estrada, majority of the people seem already resigned on what he is now. Except for his die-hard supporters, the public took the guilty verdict as it is. No violent reaction so far. In fact, there were more policemen in the streets than rallyists-supporters of the deposed president.

Seven of the 10 friends we texted for their reactions on the guilty verdict shared a common sentiment: that justice still exists in this country and that no one is above the law. We suppose that such observation is true to majority of
Pangasinenses who went on with their daily activities when the sentence was being rendered by the Sandiganbayan. Read the rest of this entry »

THE guilty verdict on the plunder case against former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada only showed that nobody is above the law and that justice still exists in the country.

Most Pangasinenses aired this common sentiment when asked to react on the guilty verdict against Estrada Wednesday.

A government employee however commented that he was feeling some pity for the deposed president for his age and for already serving imprisonment of more than six years. Estrada turned 70 last April Read the rest of this entry »

THE city government has allayed fears of local exporters of processed milkfish that it will compete with them in their business with the slated establishment of a P100 million Bangus and Fish Processing Plan here.

City Administrator Alvin Fernandez said that even if the bangus and fish processing plant will be operating soon, it will not be directly engaged in the export of bangus. Read the rest of this entry »