By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
FINALLY, the good cops found what they’ve long suspected to be in Region 1 since two years back but have failed to find till only recently. A trillion-peso worth of a shabu laboratory right in the heart of the region, La Union, can you beat that?
What the police has been discovering in Metro Manila and nearby provinces in the past few years by way of methamphetamine hydrochloride manufacturers’ dens whose estimated worth are themselves already in the millions have turned out to be patsies compared to that one found in barangay Binmutubut, Naguilian town.
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By ROMINA A. DANGUILAN
MUCH has been written and more have been heard on the dilemmas surrounding kidney transplantation in the Philippines today.
Unfortunately, by spreading only the abuse suffered at the hands of unscrupulous men and women who prey on patients with kidney failure hanging on to dear life, and the willing living kidney donor, the progress forged by Filipino transplant physicians is being trampled on.
Science has continuously sought to improve patient’s lives. The dream of transferring someone else’s body part to another to save his life was something you only watched in the movies. Yet in the past two decades, scientists found a way to successfully perform this miracle.
By improving the techniques of this procedure, by optimizing the fluid to bathe the newly taken body part, by optimizing medications required to overcome the body’s florid response to a foreign body, transplantation swiftly became a reality and an option for the 10,000 Filipinos who develop kidney failure each year.
This path was not easy. It took transplant physicians and their partners in the medical field years to develop the expertise, the chutzpah to tread the challenges of this new frontier. Read the rest of this entry »
By DANNY O. SAGUN
A BIG CROWD turned up for the anti-corruption rally last Friday in Urdaneta City to the delight of Ombudsman Merciditas Gutierrez who brought all her deputies and staff. She was ecstatic and profuse with gratitude to Mayor Amadito Perez, noting his ability to assemble a huge crowd of some 10,000, thus eclipsing an earlier rally of some 8,000 in Cebu.
Perez can count on two big public schools in his city - the national high school and the city-operated university - for a big turnout. Those two schools alone can already produce more than 10,000 warm bodies.
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A PLAN of the Dagupan City government to build a seafood processing plant here costing some P100 million is being hindered by some 30 defiant squatters of a public land in sitio Russia, barangay Bonuan Binloc.
The squatters refuse to leave a 1.5 hectare foreshore area targeted to be the location of the processing plant whose construction would be bankrolled from the more than U.S. $1.1 million financial grant of the Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
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LINGAYEN — Pangasinan has the largest population in Region I.
It also ranks third largest among the provinces in the entire country with a population of 2.65 million based on the final results of the Census of Population (POPCEN 2007) conducted by the National Statistics Office on August 1 of last year.
Region I comprises Ilocos Norte with 547,284, Ilocos Sur with 632,255, La Union 720,972 and Pangasinan 2,645,395 for a total of 4,545,906.
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LINGAYEN—The newly renovated Lingayen Gulf Resort Hotel (LGRH) owned by the province has re-opened on July 11, Governor Amado Espino Jr. announced on Wednesday.
Just a stone’s throw away from the Lingayen beach, the hotel now awaits customer seeking comfortable accommodations and modern facilities.
The LGRH was renovated in the effort of the present provincial administration to transform the old resort hotel into an income-generating venture. Read the rest of this entry »
LINGAYEN—The man who was shot and killed during an encounter with policemen inside the Lyceum-Northwestern University here on July while classes were going on was confirmed to be a notorious hired killer.
Police Provincial Director Sr. Superintendent Isagani Nerez said the suspect, Edwin Racho, alias Edwin Bisaya and Tisoy, 37 of barangay San Isidro, Binmaley, was tagged as the principal suspect in the killing of several persons in Dagupan and Pangasinan for a fee.
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LINGAYEN—The slaying of two councilors of Pangasinan, one of which happened less than two weeks after the other, and the killing of another councilor about a year ago, are sending chills down the spines of other aldermen in the province.
This was disclosed by Provincial Board Member Raul Sison who authored a resolution condemning the recent slaying of the town councilors of Binalonan and San Quintin and the slaying of another councilor from Alcala almost a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »
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