Boy, 12 strangles, kills grandma
SAN QUINTIN, Pangasinan – Harsh words said against a 12-year-old possibly led to the killing of his own 67-year-old grandmother in Barangay Alac this town.
Senior Insp. Jackson Seguin, police chief here said the boy, whose identity was withheld, is now under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development here.
On Dec. 8, Francisca Aguinaldo, widow, and resident of said place, was found dead at a grassy farm in the said place.
The boy reported the incident to his family who immediately called the police. He initially owned up to the killing of his grandmother and he was surrendered by his father to the police.
Seguin said they could hardly believe that the boy could do such a thing to his own grandmother who died of strangulation and with wound on her left upper eye brow.
On Dec. 10, after a thorough investigation, police said the boy confessed to them that he had two other companions who fled.
The two, whose identities were not also disclosed, are now under police manhunt.
Investigation showed the boy was accused by the victim of stealing her chickens and goat and some steel construction materials.
Police said the victim got mad at him for doing such thing and this prompted the suspect to kill her. – Jennelyn Mondejar
Gov laments Pangasinan dismal, slow development
BY DAN E. NIÑOCARSON, California – Pangasinan Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. lamented what he described as Pangasinan’s dismal and slow development that betrays its old premier status in his addresses before Pangasinenses during his recent visit here.
Addressing twice a large group of Pangasinenses in Lakewood and Carson in Los Angeles county, Espino noted that tourists would rather go to Boracay, Bohol and other parts of the country rather than to the beautiful Hundred Islands and other undeveloped tourism come-ons in Pangasinan.
He spoke before the associations of Binmaley and Lingayen in Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas. He was accompanied by Mayor Jonas Castañeda of Lingayen and Mayor Sam Rosario of Binmaley.
The former police colonel cited the economic progress of Ilocos Norte which boasts of an international airport.
"It’s pathetic," he lamented as he announced plans for the construction of an airport in a 86-hectare area in Barangay Alos, Alaminos City.
"The Lingayen airport which we have to refurbish is only for investors, while the future Alaminos International Airport is designed to promote eco-tourism," he said.
The congressman-turned-governor was upbeat about Manaoag town whose religious shrine is frequently visited by tourists, describing it as "the pilgrims capital of the north" and springboard for tourists going to Baguio City.
He also pitched in for the Lingayen-Binmaley-Dagupan City triangle for ecotourism development, citing the fine beaches and rich fishery resources of the area.
"Pangasinan used to be the breadbasket and rice granary of Luzon if not entire Philippines," he said, adding "now we cannot even produce hybrid rice, which is developed in the Visayas."
Governor Espino was introduced by Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA president Ads Diaz at both occasions attended by Fil-Am Carson City Councilman Lito M. Santarina.
"We must sell Pangasinan first to fellow Pangasinenses in this great country (US), encourage them to patronize native products, and if possible invest in their own homeland."
He lashed at the R650-million loan of the previous provincial administration for which, he said. "We are paying R13.7 million a month."
He said, "we don’t even have a food terminal, deep-sea fishing, and yet we have 184 kilometers of fine beaches." He said that since he assumed his post at the capitol, the province had sent 1,500 welders and 300 engineers to Hanjin, a ship-building company based in Subic Bay.
He paid tribute to Pangasinenses abroad for their dollar remittances which have sent our youth to college but deplored that "a large segment of our population live below poverty line and 30 percent don’t even have potable water and sanitary toilets."
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