By DANNY O. SAGUN

PEDESTRIANS can now hardly walk thru the sidewalks in the downtown area. Ambulant vendors and store owners alike have occupied almost all available spaces forcing pedestrians to use the roadsides. In fact they are forced to walk almost in the middle of the road since the sides are occupied by vehicles which are not parked properly mainly because of the presence of vendors.

We cannot help but again ask City Hall what happened to law enforcement. We are returning to the chaotic road conditions of old –yes, during those times when you had to spend half an hour to an hour negotiating the way from traffic post No. 1 to city hall. Read the rest of this entry »

By BEHN FER.,HORTALEZA, JR.

POLICE investigators are pursuing some leads on the motive and possible identity of the mastermind behind the shooting of local broadcaster Allan Sison late Friday evening outside his residence along the De Venecia highway.

Sison, a controversial figure in Pangasinan media circles who has had violent scrapes with other people and only recently with a fellow mediaman, has been pronounced by doctors as having good chances of surviving despite suffering two gunshot wounds believed fired from a .45 caliber pistol at close range. Read the rest of this entry »

Nen MARIO F. KARATEKA

MILAAK na talo tan binting ed si kaaron abogado Gonz Duque, presidente na Laysiyum Norswistern Yunibersitit, ed say kerew tan piogagep ton nawalaan na matudyo tan maanos ya pansukisok komon ed no kapigan a tua so impakatibokel na Pangasinan bilang sakey a luyag ed Pilipinas.

Abayag metlayan kerew tod saray manooley ed probinsiya a komon manggawara na riserts ed sayan kipaakaran tapian aliwan singa bugkalot so luyag tan saray Pangasinensen kapara tayo no asuntod kapigan so petsay “inkianak” na baley tayon nianakan.
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By IKE SENERES

WE have been through this before. We have seen the mobs of EDSA III, we recognized them as the faces of poverty, and then we vowed to combat poverty no matter what. We are shocked by scenes that awaken our nation. Will we wake up one day to see the nightmare gone?

Now we are shocked by stories of people committing suicide because of poverty. Just like EDSA III, we are now vowing to do something about it, but will we ever get around to it? As I see it, “ningas cogon” is a terrible tandem to a short national memory. Read the rest of this entry »

By DANNY O. SAGUNPIA Dagupan Infocenter

OF THE potential irrigable areas of 181,000 hectares in Pangasinan, only some 63,000 hectares of farmlands are actually benefitting from irrigation now, according to the provincial irrigation officer.

Engineer Helsy Bermudez said that 14,000 hectares are covered by the national irrigation system (NIS) while 49,000 fall under the small or communal irrigation system (CIS).

The total existing service areas for both NIS and CIS is 103,000 hectares but the systems in some 40,000 hectares of ricelands are no longer functioning, thus the need for rehabilitation, he disclosed. Read the rest of this entry »

MALASIQUI – Despite stormy weather, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo motored here on Thursday to officiate in the mass oath-taking of all newly elected barangay officials in the third district of Pangasinan.

The mass oath-taking coincided with the birthday of Rep. Rachel Arenas, congresswoman of the third district of Pangasinan, held at the family’s spacious farm in barangay Nancapian. Read the rest of this entry »

WHEN was Pangasinan created as a province?

Former Pangasinan Vice Governor Gonzalo Duque has reiterated his challenge to the provincial government to conduct a comprehensive research in order to find out the exact day in Philippine history when Pangasinan was created as a province.

Now president of Lyceum Northwestern University, Duque lamented that “Pangasinan is the only province in the Philippines that has not established the date when it was created.” Read the rest of this entry »

MALASIQUI – The days of mulcting cops are numbered, if one is to have full faith in the words of the country’s top policeman.

PNP Chief Director General Avelino Razon Jr. vowed to eradicate graft and corruption in the streets perpetrated by mulching cops and scalawags at all cost.

He said he will implement to the latter his program “No to Kotong” (No to Mulcting) and warned policemen who will not toe the line. Read the rest of this entry »

THERE is hope that the proposed modern sanitary landfill in Bayambang town can still be realized.

No less than the Department of Environment and Natural Resources categorically denied that the project, which was proposed and subjected to a series of public hearings last year, was already shelved.

Samuel Songcuan, community environment and natural resources officer of Pangasinan, said it is unfair to say that the proposed multi-million peso sanitary landfill in Bayambang town was already deemed a failure as the project has not yet started. Read the rest of this entry »

THE P1.249-billion Dawel-Lucao Diversion road in Dagupan City is set to be opened to vehicular traffic in March Next year, according to Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez.

Ginez said the new highway is now 70 percent complete and the remaining 30 percent uncompleted is the P930 million bridge across the Pantal river funded by a soft loan released by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). Read the rest of this entry »