Cong. De Venecia Hinirang na Deputy Majority Leader

Itinalaga na nga bilang Deputy Majority Leader ng 18th Congress ang kongresista ng ika-apat na Distrito ng Pangasinan na si Congressman Christopher de Venecia. Kasabay nito ang pagtalaga sa kanya bilang Miyembro ng Committee on Rules, na siyang nagsasaayos upang ang mga prayoridad na panukala ng administrasyon ay maisulong para maging batas. 

WHIP - Newly elected Deputy Majority Leader of the 18th Congress Pangasinan's 5th District Congressman Christopher de Venecia.

Sa ika-17 Kongreso, si De Venecia ay nahirang bilang Assistant Majority Leader pero sa ikalawang termino niya sa Kongreso, ginawa na nga siyang Deputy Majority Leader ng mayorya sa Kamara, na aagapay sa nahalal na Majority Leader na si Rep. Martin Romualdez at sa itinalagang House Speaker na si Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano. 

MAYOR’S JOB TOUGHER – Ex-Solon, Mogul Say

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN – The mayor’s job is tougher than that of a congressman, a former solon and the new mayor here described it.

Former Pangasinan Second District Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil said he found out that being a mayor is exciting but tougher than that of being a member of the House of Representatives.

“Actually exciting at mas mabigat ito. Sa totoo lang because you are dealing with people directly. Person to person ito, eh. You know my experienced from the day I took charge of the office kasi nandito ang mga papeles na pipirmahan ko nandiyan ang tao punong puno sa office ko at meron pa sa labas na naghihintay”.

CHIEF EXECUTIVES - Former two-star police general and ex congressman Leopoldo Bataoil (left) and mogul Cezar T. Quiambao. Both are present mayors of Lingayen and Bayambang in the province of Pangasinan.

                                  

   When he was a three-term or nine years’ congressman he could focus more time on his proposed and co-sponsored bills and resolutions, and plenary works without any of the factors he just mentioned in a local government unit (LGU).
“Sa Congress you can focus sa mga bills and resolutions and you can even go to the plenary at walang maka istorbo sa iyo”.

Bataoil, a former two – star police general, is known for his strong work ethics.

One of them was his excitement to report at dawn in his first official day last July 1 as the new chief executive of the capital town of the province.

“July 1 mula noon at ngayon I hit the road running. I turned night into day. On that Tuesday sinubukan ko 5:45 Am checked ko kung diligent (municipal workers). Excited ako hindi ako makatulog ng gabi”.

Group cites more benefits from second power plant in Sual town

SUAL, Pangasinan – A group of senior citizens here is urging the new leaders to support the second power plant project because of its numerous benefits the residents of Sual could get from the project to be constructed by a multi-national company based in South Korea.

These are the following:

1.       The proposed power plant project would provide more than one thousand jobs for local folk that would mean higher purchasing power and standard of living for Sual residents;

Multiplier Effect

2.       Real property taxes to be collected from the plant owners is estimated roughly at P800 million every year to be shared by the provincial government (35 percent), the municipality of Sual (40 percent) and the barangay where the plant would be constructed (25 percent);

3.       Sual residents shall be given discounted rates on their electric bills;

4.       The municipality of Sual shall be guaranteed continuous power supply;

5.       Additional revenues shall be provided for livelihood assistance to local folk, more scholarship grants, additional subsidies to local farmers in terms of free certified seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation; additional free medicines and other services to senior citizens, womenfolk and other sectors of the community, expanded health care delivery, construction of more farm-to-market roads, classrooms and other infrastructure projects;

Tobacco Farmers in P’gasinan earn P1M per Hectare

Grateful to Miracle Plant Growth Enhancer

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MALASIQUI – Because of the confluence of commercial and chemical factors like the use of plant growth enhancer, tobacco farmers here have experienced a booming harvest early this year because of the roughly a million of pesos’ net profit per hectare.

Bernardo Cabatbat, a 72 years old farmer, was surprised that after he used AMO Plant Growth Enhancer (APGE) in the planting season in September last year to its harvest in March this year where he earned about a million pesos in his one hectare of farm land.

“Maganda noong dumating ang AMO matagal na ako sa AMO,” he stressed in Filipino the effect of the sea weed based non toxic’s miracle fertilizer.

BIG TIME - Proud tobacco farmers at Barangay Gatang in Malasiqui, Pangasinan show their green bags that carry the AMO “miracle” plant growth enhancer after a pep talk with enhancer’s officials. Frantic hardware and lumberyard owners in the 73 villages’ town have to deal with the frenzied farmers ordering construction materials for their houses and other needs because they hit big time in the recent harvest season.

He said the cost of production from planting to harvesting tobacco was seventy thousand pesos.

“Katulad ngayon isang ektarya kulang-kulang one million pesos ang kinita namin dito”.

Unlike rice and corn, the buying system of tobacco is not by kilo but by pardo.

Pardo means 20 sets of tobacco leaves. One set is six cured leaves strung through its petiole by a bamboo stick where they are hanged in curing barns.  

“Even the hardware and lumber yard owners were amazed by the frantic demand of the farmers in Barangay Gatang for construction materials of their houses. They wonder why most of these customers came from the same barangay,” Cabatbat told this newspaper.

SM CENTER - DAGUPAN'S JOB FAIR 2019

My Pre-Fight Analysis: Pacquiao vs Thurman

By Mortz C. Ortigoza*

In this coming Sunday, commercial and criminal activities in the Philippines will be in a stand still.

From joggers to muggers all these people will be in the confine of their houses glued at the boob tube and radios because their boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao, 40, will be trading leathers with elite American boxer Keith Thurman, 30, for the World Boxing Association’s Super World Welterweight Title at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In this pre - fight analysis I will delve on the strengths and weaknesses of both pugs and my unsolicited advises how they neutralize each other to win the diadem.

  I based mostly my analysis on how a young rugged Australian’s Jeff Horn relentlessly dawned on the older Pacquiao like a windmill and saw him struggle to avoid those flurry of blows and lost the fight at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.

I studied too how Thurman chalked up victories against two of the very best Welterweight boxers during their matches in the whirling dervish Joe Frazier liked Shawn Porter and the hard but accurate hitting Danny Garcia.

Although Thurman knocked down Josesito Lopez (36-7-0 with 42 percent K.O ratio) in the early rounds, in that latest rumble Keith was lethargic because of his two years’ absence in the ring because he recuperated on a right elbow injury and got married.

World Class PUVs Terminal Opens in Dagupan City

 Operator Allays Fear It Will Be Blocked by the Lim Admin

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – Because of the provisional authority to operate given by the government the world class inter-modal transport terminal here can open anytime to serve the public, according to the official of the company who runs it.

“Right now we are pleased to say we have the provisionary authority to operate. And in fact if you notice kaninang umaga it was the regional director of the LTFRB who gave a very strong endorsement for this transport terminal dahil sang ayon itong transport terminal natin sa utos mismo ni Pangulong Duterte ang LTFRB,” Executive Director Alan German of the SDS Development & Consultancy after he attended Wednesday morning in this city the nationwide simultaneous launched of One Direction Towards PUV Modernization of the Department of Transportation & Communications and the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB)

COLOSSAL - Executive Director Alan German (extreme left) of the SDS Development & Consultancy leads the cutting of ribbon in the recent inauguration of the colossal world class hundreds of millions of pesos inter-modal terminal  located in the Judge Jose de Venecia Highway Extension at Barangay Tapuac in Dagupan City. German is accompanied by the firm's lawyer Leiland R. Lopez (extreme right) and Bonuan Gueset Barangay Chairman Noel Bumanlag. Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza

He added that the firm is in a skeletal operation even before its inauguration and ribbon cutting he led with SDS’s counsel Leland R. Lopez.

“We can operate anytime given the provisional license to operate,“ German, the son of publicist Reli German, reiterated on the sprawling two-and-a-half hectares hub.

Dialogue with Mayor Brian Lim

He said the company wants to dialogue with Mayor Brian Lim when told by this writer the mayor may oppose the terminal’s operation because the public utility buses here are not allowed because of the routes dictated by the LTFRB in their franchisees.

German said that his firm complied with all the government regulations.

“Tungkol po sa lahat ng paper works at regulation. So confident po kami as far as legal standing is concerned. Our good mayor is still doubtful about the status of our operation we would like to dialogue with him. Clarify namin po,” he stressed.