Fertilizers from Japan
FERTILIZERS FOR FARMERS. Agritech Vice President Danilo Oñate (left), Agriculture Undersecretary Salvador Salacup and Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura inspect the fertilizers for distribution to typhoon-hit provinces.
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Abono supports Chiz’s presidential bid
By Virgilio Sar. Maganes
DAGUPAN CITY – Abono Party List will still support Senator Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero if he will continue his presidential bid, despite his bolting from the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC).
This was bared by Abono Chair Rosendo O. So during the “Engkwentro sa Lenox” here last November 4 which was sponsored by the Pangasinan Press Club (PPC).
So is one of the leading members of NPC in Region I.
“Senator Chiz will remain an ally of Abono in our development programs in the province. He’s a part of the provincewide massive feeding program among malnourished and undernourished school children. As to his reasons of bolting the NPC and run as independent candidate, we will leave that to himself,” So said.
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Noynoy Aquino lacks political savvy
Pardon to the Noynoy Aquino supporters but personally I found him to be not the presidentiable I am looking for. I was not awed, star struck and delighted when he answered queries from the local media during his visit in Urdaneta City last November 5. Instead, I was amused on his answers by trying to impress the media with his trite premises.
I was then expecting a Noynoy Aquino who directly points out his policies and plans. Although he enumerated his basic programs such as job generation, education, health and judicial reforms, aren’t these already performed by the incumbent administrations? What’s new? I was frustrated.
While Noynoy is being viewed as the man to beat in the 2010 presidential derby due to incredible results of surveys ( with only 1,500 respondents all over the archipelago), the fact remains that he’s not his father’s son. He lacked the eloquence of his father Ninoy Aquino and the savvy of his mother Cory Aquino.
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Abrenica says Villasis set to regain progress
By Virgilio Sar. Maganes
VILLASIS – Mayor Nonato Abrenica said he was all set to rehabilitate the flood-damaged agriculture and infrastructure projects and called on his townmates to be united behind him in bringing back the progress of the town.
In an interview with this paper, Abrenica said the unprecedented flood that occurred last October 8 and 9 this year caused tremendous damages on agricultural crops, live stocks, houses and government infrastructure projects that need immediate action.
The flood was caused by the intermittent rains brought by Typhoon Pepeng and the indiscriminate release of water by the management of the San Roque Dam.
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Abono thanks DA for fertilizers
By Brando Cortez
ROSALES – The Abono Party List, in behalf of Pangasinan farmers, welcomed the immediate approval made by the Department of Agriculture (DA) on the appeal for fertilizer subsidy for farmers hit by the successive typhoons.
The call for subsidy was made by Abono Chairman Rosendo So during a press conference in Dagupan city after typhoon Pepeng hit Northern Luzon which caused heavy flooding causing destruction to farms.
So made the appeal for the government to use part of the fertilizer donation made by Japan to the Philippines.
So said that the farmers are grateful to Japanese Amabassador Makoto Katsura, Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap and Daniel Oñate, vice-president for marketing and national sales manager of Agrotech Agricultural Products, Inc., for granting the request for fertilizer subsidy.
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Susmariosep, voters these days are like auctioneers
This coming election, the masses will be earning a windfall.
Just take what a mayoralty aspirant confided to me recently. When I told him that his moneyed opponent is already ubiquitous and generous in giving dole-outs to the hoi-polloi, this he told me: “Pabayaan mo siyang gumastos this early. Mabuti iyan para mabawasan ang yaman niya. But I want to tell you that my family is prepared to cough up to P100 million just to win the poll.”
This aspirant added he wants to show his opponent that the war ahead would be very expensive. He added that he would spend that mind-whopping amount just to win.
He doubts that his rival has even half of the saving he has for the war of attrition.
I learned a lot before what real politics from this veteran politician that I did not find in the political science books of Joaquin Bernas, Hector de Leon, and others that I used when I was teaching in college.
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Chiz to big landowers :Give up land for relocation sites
Opposition Senator Chiz Escudero challenged big landowners to give up part of their property so that it can be developed into permanent relocation sites for typhoon victims.
“I call on on those who own tracts of land to give up portions so that these lands can be converted into relocation sites for these victims,” Escudero said. “If they have a hundred hectares, perhaps it will not be too much to ask for them to donate 10 hectares.”
The 40-year old lawmaker pointed out that despite the decades-old implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), only 17 percent of the targeted 1.5 million hectares of private lands have been transferred to tenants.
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‘Ban-oitan’ proves fish are back in Hundred Islands
ALAMINOS CITY – Catching fish using hook and line proves that fishes are back at the world famous Hundred Islands National Park.
Illegal fishing methods in the past years have almost depleted the fish resources in the park, but they have regenerated after the city government imposed anti-illegal fishing laws.
Fishermen and hobbyists who joined the recent first ever Ban-oitan ed Alaminos (Fishing using hook and line in Alaminos) have found out that different fish species abound, and in big sizes at that.
Fisherman Victor Viray of barangay Lucap and his team aboard a motorized banca, caught more than 16 kilos of assorted fish in just two hours. By noon time, his team already has 28 kilos to boast and they decided to call it a day.
Viray was among the more than hundred anglers who went fishing as early as 6 o’clock in the morning and sailed to Lucap wharf by 2 p.m. for the official weigh-in.
We are a bit lucky,” said Viray. “I think we have found the best spot to fish that’s why he had the most catch of the day.” His team won the biggest catch award.
Among the popular species caught by the participants include grouper (lapu-lapu), parrot fish (molmol), clown trigger fish (papakol), sword fish (layalay), jack fish and caranx (talakitok).
Also caught were also fusilier (dalagang bukid), rabbit fish (malaga), eel (igat), sardine (tamban), threadfin bream (bisugo), emperor fish (lugso), goat fish (balaki), trumphet fish (tortorumpet) and therapon (baraoangan).
For the heaviest catch, the winners were Conrado Donato who caught a talakitok weighing 1.2 kilos and Carlito Celino who caught a 490 gram papakol.
The longest fish caught was a 71-cm spotted eel and a 71-cm layalay (sword fish) by Genaro Marquez (team category) and a 71-cm eel (individual category) by Ernesto Malanum of barangay Telbang (individual category)
Mayor Hernani Braganza, in his message, said the Ban-oitan competition aims to promote hook and line fishing in the city which is the legal, safe and environment-friendly means of fishing.
“We stopped illegal fishing activities in the Hundred Islands to prove that we can still achieve equality and social justice in our society,” said the mayor.
“We defend our coastal waters from big time illegal fishers to safeguard the interest of our marginalized fishermen,” he added.
Despite the inclement weather, many fishermen from the city’s 10 coastal communities showed up and joined the first and the biggest game fishing contest in the city.
The prized catch of the anglers is a concrete proof that there’s now enough supply and it’s easy to catch fish at the identified fishing areas.
It is due to the city government’s initiative to stop illegal fishing activities in the area since 2005, different marine species continue to grow and multiply very fast at the city’s marine sanctuary.
He said that the conservation and rehabilitation of the city’s underwater wealth will not just ensure a healthier environment, but also a better future for the next generations of Alaminians.
He added that with all the laudable programs in place, “all we need to do is to work hard and persevere for us to win our battle against poverty and hunger.”
“Let’s continue to unite and embrace reforms that the city government has instituted to improve our standard of living and achieve the kind of development our city truly deserves,” he said. quipped.
City administrator Wilmer Panabang, who also took part in the said competition and caught more than 7 kgs. of assorted fish, said most of the participants were very eager to win.
Victor Viray caught more than 16 kilos of fish after two hours of fishing.
Different kinds of fishes abound at the waters of Hundred Islands National Park.
Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza exhorts his city mates to continue protecting the Hundred Islands National Park.
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Pangasinan sees rise in voting population
DAGUPAN CITY – Pangasinan may see some 200,000 new voters, the provincial election supervisor disclosed in a media forum last week.
Lawyer Reddy Balarbar said the voting population of the province may reach some 1.6 million after the October 31 registration deadline, about a hundred thousand more than the number of voters in the 2007 elections.
He said that many new registrants were observed trooping to the municipal and city offices of the Commission on Elections in the past few days. “As usual maraming pumipila for the last minute,” he noted during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency.
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So to support NPC candidates
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
ROSALES – The quintessential kingmaker of Pangasinan politics said that he will throw his tactical support to national and local candidates who run under the Nationalist People Coalition in next year’s polls.
“I will support probably those candidates who run under the NPC,” Rosendo So declared.
So was the political strategist who mapped the victories of former President Joseph Estrada and the late Fernando Poe in the vote-rich province of Pangasinan in the presidential elections in 2001 and 2004 against former Speaker Joe de Venecia and President Gloria M. Arroyo, respectively.
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