By: Venus H. Sarmiento

MABINI  -  A total of 1,524 families in this town have received  cash cards under  the Pantawid Pamilyang   Pilipino Program (4Ps) which is part of the government’s poverty reduction program.

Social welfare officer III and 4Ps focal person Venus Reboldela said  beneficiaries from 16 barangays here received total cash assistance  amounting to P2,899,500. Barangay Tagudin has the biggest number of beneficiaries with 214 identified households followed by barangays De Gusman and Barlo with 135 and 133 beneficiaries, respectively.

Reboldela said cash assistance  is given to extremely  poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly their children aged 0-14. The beneficiaries, she said, were selected through a uniform, objective and transparent set of criteria. Read the rest of this entry »

Ombudsman joins buried medicines probe

THE Ombudsman has waded into the investigation on the discovered cache of medicines buried in at least two places at the provincial Capitol compound in Lingayen town. 

Assistant Ombudsman Mark Jalandoni, in a letter to Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr., said that the graft probe body took cognizance of the case and was sending two field investigation officers to help in the probe which already also involves the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).  Read the rest of this entry »

Fugitive American

lawyer arrested

STA. BARBARA – - A fugitive American lawyer who fled to the Philippines two years ago after he ran afoul the law in his homeland was arrested by the police in Sta. Barbara town on Tuesday morning.

Arrested initially for violation of Philippine Immigration laws in Barangay Cablong, in a house where he and his fiancée was believed living in, was Joseph Aldan Arriola, who was indicated for unbailable offenses in the United States of America.

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By Leonardo V. Micua

A CITY official here explained that only relocation, not demolition, was done on Monday and on Tuesday in sitio Russia, Bonuan Binloc here.

Yet before this was done, according to City Legal Officer George Mejia, policemen and squatters pushed each other, hurting at least five or six persons in the process.

Sitio Russia is the pinpointed site for the about-to-be built U.S. 2 million Seafood Processing Plant, to be financed by a grant from the Korean government, whose construction is due to start July 1. Read the rest of this entry »

AN official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has confirmed that the construction of the Dagupan City Seafood Processing Plant is really due to start on July 1.

Westly Rosario, chief of the BFAR�s National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), said if the start of the construction of the project would be postponed to a latter date, the project might not be finished in December. Read the rest of this entry »

SOME two million bangus fry are being made available by the National Integrated Fisheries Techology Development Center (NIFTDC) for bangus raisers in western Pangasinan adversely affected by typhoon “Emong” in May this year.

NIFTDC chief Westly Rosario said this is on top of the 12 million fry promised earlier by Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap when he visited Bolinao just after typhoon “Emong”, to be sourced out from different bangus hatcheries throughout the country. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN – A Class AA slaughterhouse is set to rise very soon in this capital town, according to Mayor Ernesto “Jonas” Castaneda.

Castaneda told the Pangasinan Press and Radio Club Kapihan sa Lenox forum Tuesday that P13 million was set aside for the project that will serve not only the needs of the town but also neighboring municipalities. A Class AA abattoir is authorized to supply meat to the town where it is located and to its neighbors.

Only recently, the town’s temporary slaughterhouse was portrayed negatively on national television. Footages showed dirty facilities and interviews of unidentified complaining local residents.

“Nalulungkot ako,” Castaneda said referring to the TV report. He said any person concerned could have just reported the matter to him. Read the rest of this entry »

ROSALES – The SM City Rosales here had its grand opening Friday drawing thousands of shoppers from various parts of the province including neighboring Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.

SM top honcho Henry Sy himself graced the grand occasion along with ranking officials of the giant mall chain. SM City Rosales had its soft opening in November last year for the first phase. Popular food outlets, retail stores along with Hypermarket, ACE Hardware, SM Appliance Center and Watsons opened their doors then to Pangasinenses.

Under Phase two, SM opened its popular Department Store, food court and SM Cinema to complete its “total shopping, leisure and entertainment experience,” according to Gerlou Rosario, the mall chain’s Rosales public relations officer. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN – A new sports superstar from Pangasinan has emerged.

Bolinao lass Lany Cardona led her team, the Centrex-Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (C-VMUF), to capture the overall team championship for the Juniors Division by winning four gold and one silver medals after the competition in the 800 meter-run, 5000mr, 3000 mr, 10000mr and 1500mr in the National Open Athletics Championship held last May 10 to 12 at the sprawling Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center here.

The C-VMUF was the only Pangasinan team joining the national open track and field competition which had the participation of athletes from various countries. Read the rest of this entry »

 By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

MANGALDAN—The provincial veterinarian’s office, the National Meat Inspection Service  and the municipal government here led by Mayor Herminio Romero staged a feast known in military parlance as a”boodle fight” yesterday with pork served as main dish in various cooked forms.

Setting up the venue at the plaza gate just across the new municipal hall for the informal public dining – minus eating utensils –, the municipal government led by Romero opened the breakfast treat to all municipal employees and officials and the public who partook of the various pork dishes including tasty lechon with gusto.

The “boodle fight” was decided upon by the OPVet, NMIS and the town officials to somehow allay public fears following reports that swine flu was prevalent among pigs in the fourth district, particularly Mangaldan where a Class AA slaughterhouse is located.  Read the rest of this entry »