SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — Chief Superintendent Romeo Hilomen, former head of the Police Security and Protection Office (PSPO), assumed office Wednesday as acting director of the Ilocos Police Regional Office in a turnover of command where the outgoing officer was somewhere else outside the country.

The sudden change of command in the Ilocos police office caught Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil, the reassigned police regional director, still in Fujian, China for a goodwill visit together with ranking police officers of the region, following the Ilocos PNP regional office’s winning a national award as the best throughout the country.
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BANTAY, Ilocos Sur—At least two pieces of vintage bombs of World War II type were recovered by police operatives in a junkshop in Barangay Naguiddayan this town recently.

A junkshop worker reported to the police station about the unusual types of materials he found in the premises of their shop.
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VIGAN CITY—Athletes from Ilocos Sur rev up their body by drinking calamansi juice.

Now the official energy drink of athletes campaigning in aports events including the just concluded Ilocos Region Athletic Association (IRAA) Meet in Pangasinan, the calamansi juice comes in bottles just like the commercial colas and is ready to drink.

This is the “Calamansi Juice Ready to Drink” produced in Tagudin under the “One Town, One Product” concept.
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THE government has set as one of its top priorities the development of bio-power as an alternative source of energy in order to help reduce the country’s dependency on imported oil and oil products.

Dr. Enrie Mendoza, presidential assistant for Northern Luzon, told newsmen here that the program was endorsed by the Regional Development Council of Ilocos-Pangasinan headed by Ilocos Sur Governor Deogracias Savellano.

Mendoza said the program intends to bring about self-sufficiency on bio-ethanol, the blended mixture for petrochemicals, and the use of solar power in order to energize homes in remote villages yet to be reached by electricity.
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SAN FERNANDO CITY—The buildings and machineries of the Bauang Private Power Corporation (BPPC) in barangay Payocpoc Sur in Bauang town is now in the hands of the provincial government.

This was after a public auction held on February 1, 2008 at the provincial Capitol in San Fernando City, La Union which was won by the provincial government.

The public auction was conducted because of the failure and refusal of BPCC to pay its real property tax for its buildings and facilities from 1995 to 2007 amounting to P1.866 billion.
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SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The government completed six major infrastructure projects in the Ilocos region last year, all costing P3.865 billion.

All these were built by the Department of Pubic Works and Highways (DPWH), the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) and the Local Water Districts.

These projects are in line with the continuing efforts to improve the socio-economic conditions of the people.
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LAOAG CITY—Two members of a gun-for-hire syndicate, tagged as suspects in the slaying of the legal officer of Laoag City in December last year, were arrested in separate police operations in northern Luzon recently.

Ilocos Region Police Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo N. Bataoil said the two, including another who is still at large, were believed as the killers of Jose Antonio “Pepoc” Pastor, 49, inside his law office at Barangay 7A in Laoag, just a few meters away from Laoag City Hall.
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A MUNICIPAL mayor of Ilocos Sur said the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) should not be crying over the slash of their share from the annual Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).

Narvacan Mayor Edgar D. Zaragosa said the LCP should instead be thankful to the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the IRA shares of cities for last year “were very much bigger as compared to the shares of different towns all over the country. “
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CAMP OSCAR FLORENDO, La Union,–Fifty-six vintage bombs, believed parts of a Japanese arsenal in World War II, were dug up near the house of a municipal mayor of La Union on Wednesday.

Police operatives and members of the Regional Explosive Ordinance Division of Police Regional Office 1 immediately rushed to sitio Pao, barangay Sobredillo in Caba, La Union where the vintage bombs were dug up.
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VIGAN CITY—Murder and frustrated murder charges were filed before the provincial prosecution office against a barangay chairman tagged as the principal suspect in the slaying of one person and wounding of another in a shooting incident in barangay Pug-os, Sinait, Ilocos Sur.

The suspect, Barangay Captain Marion Ines of Pug-os in Sinait, is now the subject of an intensive police manhunt.
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