With the prices of gasoline going almost unaffordable to most Filipinos, this could be the solution: The e-class bike.

The e-class bikes which look like motorcycles but which runs on electricity, was introduced to Pangasinenses during the opening of a "hub" of the Electric Motor Cycle 1 Corporation at the Nice Place compound in Urdaneta City last week. The hub will be managed by Rosendo So who owns the compound.

A fact sheet distributed during the inauguration of the hub (a hub provides support services to distributors) showed that e-class bike with brand name EMC¹ are being sold in the country by the company which imports from China. Read more

Police Director General Arturo Lomibao reinstated on Monday Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima as the provincial police director of Pangasinan whose relieve two weeks ago was met by protests among local officials.

The reinstatement was made after the investigation on how a raid on video game operation in one town was conducted was found to be "dubious."

Purisima was relieved from his post on March 21 because of the police's "three strike policy" after slot machines were confiscated by Crame's Anti-Illegal Gambling Task Force ( AIGSOTF) in Urdaneta City, Bautista and Basista towns. Read more

This is another turtle story. No, it’s different from the sea turtle babies in Burgos town which I have written about. But the stories are related.

This is about a sea turtle found sun bathing in the beach of Dasol, a neighbor town of Burgos.  The ever-reliable Ava Sharon Batay-an ( I guess her name came from Maureen Ava Viera, not sure of the spelling, the girl from Aruba who won the heart of Filipinos during a Miss Universe pageant held here. Forgot the year but I know she landed fourth in that beauty contest. Sharon, of course, could have come from Sharon Cuneta. Who does not know her? Or Sharon Stone? Have I lost you yet?) sent me a text message on Sunday about the sea turtle found by the fishermen on the beach.

Ava said it measured  58 cm by 47 cm. “Could be a hawksbill, but I’m not so sure about the species,” she said. Read more