Rice crisis looms — Abono

Farmers and agriculture stakeholders have warned of a “looming rice crisis” as they called for a “shake-up” in the leadership of the Bureau of Customs for failing to curb the entry of smuggled grains into the country.

“Heads should roll for the failure of Customs to address the problem of rampant smuggling in the Visayas and Mindanao. Smuggled rice have flooded the market, reaching Nueva Ecija, Baguio, Pangasinan, La Union and even Isabela, the rice granary of the Philippines,” Abono Party-list chairman Rosendo So said, in an interview.

Mayor’s house yields firearm, ammos

LINGAYEN – The Pangasinan provincial police swooped into Agno town at dawn of February 6 and confiscated from Agno Mayor Jose Pajeta Jr., a village head and an alleged new private armed group in the town, assorted firearms and ammunitions.
Sr. Inspector Ryan Manongo, information officer, said four search warrants issued by Judge Emma-Ines Parajas of Tayug Regional Trial Court branch 51 and were simultaneously served against the suspected owners of loose firearms.

LP, UNA senatorial bets ready for the May 2013 face off – Enrile

With the upcoming proclamation rallies set in Cebu for UNA and in Manila for the Liberal Party, Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile has called on his fellow senatorial candidates to be passionate about the platforms and their qualifications instead of trying to bring others down. “Perhaps we the candidates can show the world that elections in this side of the world can be both clean and civil. Let us, the national candidates, set the example,” he said.

EDITORIAL: FOI in ICU: A Call for Rescue

THE Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill is on the throes of death.

With just six session days left before the House of Representatives adjourns for the May 2013 election campaign, one and only one miracle could save it from certain perdition — a certification on the urgency of its immediate enactment by President Aquino himself.

CORTEZ: Calimlim kontra droga

PUKSAIN ANG JUETENG. Ang isang angulo daw na dapat tingnan sa patayan sa Atimonan ay ang jueteng as in STL.

Ang franchise ng Small Town Lottery or STL sa Laguna ay ang Ramloid Gaming Corp na pag-aari daw ni Don Ramon Preza of Tiaong, Quezon.

Minsan na din na-ambush si Preza sa Quzon noong 2011 at naka-survived naman siya.

Pumapayag si Preza sa bookies sa kanyang teritoryo basta may tongpats.

Ang franchise naman ng STL sa Quezon Province ay ang Pirouette Gaming Corporation na pag-aari naman daw ni Dona Rosario “Charing” Lee Magbuhos de los Santos.

Medyo mahina na si Aling Charing kaya ang nagpapatakbo nagayon ng laro ay si Eddie “Kabayo” Gonzalez.

Bawal ang bookies sa territory ni Aling Charing.

Ang diumanoy pagiging bookie ni Vic Siman ang dahilan ng kanyang sinapit. At meron pang isang tita Dinglasan na di umano ay bookies din ng jueteng.

Si Vic Siman at Tita Dinglasan ay magkapatid daw.

Si Tita ay may go signal na magbookies kasi nagbibigay siya ng tongpats.

Si Vic ay walang go signal na magbookies. Kaya nagrereklamo si Tita.

Doon sa mga naghahanap kay Boss, national na muna ang kanyang inaatupag. Hehehe.

Bakit kaya may sticker ng OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES ang SUV ni Siman?

Sabi ni Archbishop Cruz, ang tongpats ay umaabot hanggang Malacanan.

Alam niyo po ba na ang ingreso sa jueteng sa Quezon at Laguna ay 100 million monthly?

Kuwentahin niyo na ang lagay na napupunta kung kani-kanino.

Si Supt Marantan ay ay may kasong multiple murder sa isang shootout sa Quezon noong 2010 kng saan ang isang napatay ay siang Gerry Siman (kapatid ni Vic).

First DRRM training facility in Region I to rise in Dagupan

DAGUPAN CITY – The City Government of Dagupan inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Navy’s Naval Forces Northern Luzon (NFNL) to strengthen the disaster preparedness capability of the city and of the entire region at the city mayor’s conference room on January 28.
Commodore Caesar Taccad, NFNL’s Commander, said: “The MOA is about the establishment of the first-ever Disaster Risk Reduction Management and Training Center (DRRM-TC) not only in the province of Pangasinan but also in Region I.

FREE EYEGLASSES

Pangasinan 4th district Rep. Gina de Venecia assists an elderly woman availing of free reading eye glasses last February 1 in barangay Malued, Dagupan City. The other photo shows woman fitting reading eye glass. The project is part of Pangasinan 4th district Rep. Gina de Venecia’s continuing endeavor to help the people in the district.CESAR RAMIREZ

‘Bangus King’ of Dagupan

By Yolanda Sotelo

DAGUPAN CITY – If there’s someone who deserves to be called “bangus king” in this city, it could be Eduardo Maramba, 58, who belongs to four generations of bangus growers.
“My greatfather Franciso, my grandfather Cipriano and my father Rufino were all engaged in bangus culture, but it is only during my time when the industry blossomed into its present state,” Maramba, who owns eight hectares of fishponds in the city, five hectares in Alaminos City, and 12 fish cages also in Alaminos.
Maramba, who is accredited by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Ilocos regional office as a fish grower, saw how the industry grew since he was 12 u old when he used to help his father in the fishpond.
“We culture only few bangus then, only one fish in every square meter. The fish also were given solely lablab (a kind of filamentous algae) so they grew faster. From fingerlings, it took only 45-60 days then to grow bangus to 300 grams each,” he recalled.

Victor Agbayani takes time out from active politics

By Yolanda Sotelo

DAGUPAN CITY – Former Pangasinan Governor Victor Agbayani announced that he was taking a “time out” from politics as he is now concentrating on family life, marketing his new book and recently completing a research for the United Nations Aid for International Development.
Agbayani, a three-term governor of Pangasinan, said he was offered positions in the national government but he declined as “these are offices where I may not have impact especially on Pangasinan.”
He said he was promoting his book Battlegrounds and Breakthroughs: Progress for Rural Development, a documentation of his programs and projects when he was governor.
“We have also just completed a three-month project with the USAID on the evaluation of the health programs on the country,” he said.