Editorial Cartoon
Computer basics BASIC facilities in numerous public elementary and secondary schools around the country remain sorely lacking. The construction of classrooms and proper toilets, provision of chairs and tables and a functional library, among other fundamentals to conducive learning, urgently need to be addressed by the government, specifically at the…
Editorial
The PUNCH on its 57th year By Ermin Garcia Jr. BELIEVE it! Your SUNDAY PUNCH is already marking its 57th year of continued publication and service to Pangasinenses around the globe this month! As I looked back in time appreciating how The PUNCH started and fared since 1956, I…
Punchline
Bobby talks about Erap’s masa appeal By Jun Velasco “I would so live as if I knew that I received my being only for the benefit of others,”–Seneca IT’S cloudy, teary season. We felt the rainy season in our bones when two Dagupan stalwarts, both our friends, former…
Think about it
City Auditor preparing red-hot report By Gonzalo Duque OUR media colleagues will find this interesting. Our tycoon friend Tony Cabangon Chua was overheard in a conversation with Bolinao Mayor Noli Celeste recently. The tycoon who was “had” in his recent misadventure in buying the MCAdore building recently went to Bolinao,…
Playing with Fire
Let the trial begin By Al S. Mendoza THE case of the “sex-for-flight” scandal raised by our dear female overseas workers must be pursued up to the ends of the Earth. But what is “sex-for-flight” again? It means women offer themselves for free to men…
General Admission
The “S.O.P.” for a cause By Bebot Villar IT’S time to buckle down to work. Tama na ang pamamahinga. Ang magpakitang gilas na ang dapat na gawing work mode ng mga newly-elected officials nitong nakaraang May 13 elections. Fantastic ang mga oathtaking ceremonies nyo. Napaka-heavy ang mga messages nyo…
Deretsahan
Truth By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THERE is not here in the least intention entertained, much less any ill-will promoted to depreciate the unfairly called “Third Sex” – because there is none. Neither is there any design to cast aspersion at either male/female (“Gay”) or female/make (“Lesbian”) individuals –…
Viewpoints
Tour de France then and now By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER the ballyhooed and heartbreaking 2013 NBA championship won by the Miami Heat, avid sports followers all over the world are now focusing their attention in the Wimbledon and the Tour de France (TdF). And I guess by…