RESIDENTS of sitio Russia in barangay Bonuan Binloc may now be softening up as they participated in an ocular inspection of their alternative relocation area Tuesday afternoon.

City Legal Officer George Mejia said the residents joined Regional Trial Court Judge Genoveva Maramba of Branch 44 who conducted the ocular inspection of the relocation site in sitio Bagong Baryo, Bonuan Binloc.

The inspection was in connection with the civil case filed by residents of sitio Russia against Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and City Engineer Virginia Rosario before her sala. Read the rest of this entry »

WILL a reversion of the trust funds of some departments do the trick of returning Dagupan City to its first-class status by shoring up its total income?

City Councilor Michael Fernandez strongly thinks so as he urged the city council to review some ordinances that set aside the collections of different offices as trust funds for the use of the same to improve their services

Dagupan was relegated to second class in 1997 when its annual income that year went short by only P2 million for it to retain first-class status. Read the rest of this entry »

BANTAY, Ilocos Sur—A dismembered body was found beside the national highway in Barangay Guimod, this town last Wednesday.

PO3 Joel Javier, Duty investigator of the Bantay Town police station, said the body was that of Bernardino Laurente, 27, who was identified by his mother Cresencia, 61, of Barangay Pudoc Norte, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.

Cresencia said her son left their home last July 1 at about 10 a.m. and has not returned since.
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URDANETA CITY – The prolific illegal drug trade in this emerging metropolitan center in Pangasinan, suffered a big setback when 10 persons were arrested by joint elements of the police in simultaneous anti-drug operations in the city on Tuesday.

Targets of the coordinated operations participated in by police operatives from the regional and provincial offices were six houses of Muslim families tagged as suspected drug dens located inside the Doña Trining Subdivision here.

The police confirmed previous reports that most of the illegal drugs being passed to drug dependents in eastern Pangasinan are being sourced out from that place.

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By Liway M. Yparraguirre

ROSALES – The Carmen-Rosales Central Transport Terminal will be moving soon to a new and permanent home.
Construction work at its new site near he Tarlac-Pangasinan welcome arch in this town, started after the groundbreaking ceremony held Thursday morning.
The activity was led by Mayor Ricardo V. Revita and Willy Tan, chairman of Hausland Development Corporation (project developer). Also present were Vice Mayor Romy Sim and members of the Sangguniang Bayan, Rosales Police Chief Ernesto Abuan and Hausland comptroller Mariano Tan and Legal Counsel lawyer Ryan Tan.
Tan said they expect to finish the modern terminal in three months. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN – A gang of dismissed policemen and soldiers is now sowing fear in Luzon, according to Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima.

Purisima said the gang was tagged responsible for the robbery holdup at a big merchandise warehouse in Sta. Barbara town last week and was also believed behind the robbery at Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Rosario, La Union two weeks ago.

He said these fully armed group held up a bank in Cainta, Rizal last Thursday where they used the Starex van earlier seized from the compound of the City Supermarket Inc. in barangay Maticmatic, Sta. Barbara last Thursday.
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MAPANDAN – After only three days of the new school year, a public school principal was gunned down and killed along the road in barangay Aserda here at about 5:50 pm. Wednesday.

Tessie Morante, 57, mother of three and principal of the Golden Elementary School here, who was on board a motorized tricycle along with a school teacher, was shot by two suspects wearing crash helmets and riding tandem on board a motorcycle.
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ALCALA – Overseas residents of Alcala are contributing money among themselves in order to build a feed mill to be donated to their townmates back home.

Mayor Manuel Collado said many of the donors were among those who attended the Grand Homecoming in Alcala sometime in April during their town fiesta in honor of their patron, the Holy Cross.

These people also bankrolled Alcala’s quests for the longest grill and longest barbecue held last April 30 which would expectedly put the town in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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LINGAYEN – Complaints for murder and frustrated murder were filed by the police against a suspect in connection with the slaying of a leader of a militant group, including the wounding of his brother in San Nicolas, Pangasinan last May 16.

The complaints were filed before the Provincial Prosecutor Office against Joel Flores, 28, of barangay Domampot, Asingan town who was arrested last June 1 soon after he poked a .45 cal. pistol at police agents doing surveillance work on him.

This was after it was verified that the motorcycle used by the suspects in slaying Jose Doton, 61, chairman of the Tignay Dagiti Mannalon a Mangwaya-waya (TIMMAWA) and the wounding of his brother Cancio, 57, was registered in his (Flores’) name.
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PUBLIC schools here opened for a new schoolyear last Monday, June 5, to a relatively less busy stream of student traffic in most schools, an indication that most pupils and parents were not in a rush to start with their academic activity after the long summer break.

City schools division officials said they can not yet determine if there will be any classroom shortage because the enrollment is still going on and may continue up to July.

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