Truth at its Most Brilliant
By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
THERE are today two advocacies every Pinoy whose heart and mind are in the right place should take up with great consistency for the community’s health
First, the government move to import cheaper-priced medicines from India or other source countries as espoused by the PITC and against the profit-driven opposition of some giant multinational pharmaceutical companies; and,
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By LIWAY C. MANANTAN YPARRAGUIRRE
Region’s Best for 2006. Warmest congratulations to the following: Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) led by Police Senior Supt. Alan L.M. Purisima; Dagupan City Police Station headed P/Supt. Edgar O. Basbas; and 107 Provincial Mobile Group (based in Tayug) led Supt. Tommy B. Cabigas, group director.
They were adjudged as Best Provincial Police Office, Best City Police Station and Best PMG, respectively, besting their counterparts in Police Regional Office 1.
Regional Director Leopoldo N. Bataoil said the Pangasinan Police command is the region’s contender for the national award.
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ALAMINOS CITY – A lawyer and his wife were killed when the vehicle they were riding on was ambushed by armed men in broad daylight Sunday along an interior road in barangay Inerangan here while the city was deep in concentration before television sets watching the Pacquiao – Morales duel in the ring.
PO3 Jimmy Alcaparas, desk officer of the Alaminos City police, identified the fatalities in the ambush at 10:10 a.m. as Froilan Siobal, 57, a practicing criminal lawyer, and his wife Erlinda, 59.
Alcaparas said residents in the area almost did not notice the ambush as they were too busy viewing the Manny Pacquiao-Erik Morales boxing rubber-match on television in their homes. Read the rest of this entry »
By DANNY O. SAGUN
THE Tinday Labi did not come as big as others thought it would be during its launch Friday night last week.
Despite the distance from our humble place in San Jacinto, we came to the city together with my wifey and my only daughter just to see for ourselves how the night market would fare as envisioned. We were quite dismayed to find though that only a small portion of the main thoroughfare, A.B. Fernandez avenue, was actually used, not the section from corner Rizal street to corner Burgos street, as earlier announced by the organizers.
“THAT’S prohibited by Philippine laws. That’s also prohibited under the language of JPEPA”.
House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. thus dismissed the rumor or suggestion that Japanese toxic wastes will be dumped into the Philippines under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
De Venecia reacted sharply to the earlier alarm raised by Philippine environmentalists that the agreement has a proviso that would allow the dumping of Japanese wastes into the Philippines.
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VIGAN CITY – Three town councilors and barangay official from separate towns of Ilocos Sur have received death threats from still unknown persons or groups.
Councilor Robert Taduyan, president of the Philippine Councilors League (PCL) chapter in Ilocos Sur and an ex-officio member of the Ilocos Sur provincial board, admitted he received a death threat in his privilege speech before the provincial board.
He identified the three other recipients of death threats as Liga ng mga Barangay chapter president and Councilor Franklin Dungalen of Galimuyod town; Barangay Captain Laureano Galicia of barangay Tablac in Candon City; and Councilor Rogelio Biteng of Salcedo. Read the rest of this entry »
THE CITY’S anti-hawking task force began clearing away ambulant vendors from major city streets last Thursday urging them to relocate to a pre-designated place, it was gathered during the Patrima Kapihan at the Philippine Information Agency office.
The task force — composed of elements from the anti-hawking office, the city police, and the public order and safety office (POSO) — first cleared sidewalks along the streets of Jovellanos, Galvan, Nueva, Zamora and the front section of CSI Market Square, according to anti-hawking chief Butch Gutierrez.
The team vowed to clear obstructions in all sections of the city including Arellano, Tapuac, Perez and the whole stretch of A. B. Fernandez avenue. Read the rest of this entry »
PEOPLE who have the money to save themselves thru high-priced medicines won’t probably give a heck about it,but an average of four in five Filipinos live –and sometimes die — without access to medicines that could have cured them or at least prolonged their lives.That is how the Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC) paints the grim picture of exorbitant prices of mecdicines, a factor virtually contributing to mortality rates in the country.
Sad but true.
And yet, it can be reversed, or at least life can be made better for the sick and infirm among our less fortunate countrymen.
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By DANNY O. SAGUN
PHILIPPINE forest products are of superior quality that home builders prefer these over imported ones. “Ito yong kabaliktaran sa ibang produkto,” noted Provincial Environment and Natural resources Officer Rogel Pimentel at our weekly Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency over Radyo ng Bayan-DZMQ last Tuesday.
Co-anchor Helen B nodded in agreement as she noted that other imported products (except perhaps those budget-friendly articles from China ranging from shoes and apparel to cellphone accessories, we may add) cost much much more but are highly preferred over locally-made ones.
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ALAMINOS CITY – The operations manager of the Philippine National Bank here was killed and his two sons wounded by four armed men who barged into their house at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday in barangay Boleney here.The lone fatality was identified as Rolie Narra, 51, who was pronounced dead on arrival at the Alaminos Doctors Hospital with a gunshot wound on the left breast.
His sons Christian, 24, and Mark Henrick, 21, were slightly wounded by the suspects.
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