PUNCHITERIA
Editorial Cartoon
Payback time FOR too long, a number of mayors and barangay kapitans in Pangasinan have lorded it over their communities, poisoning them with impunity. For too long, they fed their constituents with illegal drugs, confident that they will never be made to account for their evil deeds. Well, the time…
Editorial
Our 1,074 kapitans are drug suspects By Ermin Garcia Jr. PDU30 is expected to name local government officials in the war on illegal drugs’ watch list this week. Great! The only trouble with such an announcement is that, it will surely disappoint many barangays, towns and cities if their…
Punchline
Dagupan PNP turnover By Gonzalo Duque AS we go to press, a confidant called up to report, that there are still pushers and users in Barangays Bonuan Binloc and Nueva, to name only two. One so-called youth leader in Bonuan is reportedly very much in it. The caller said…
Playing with Fire
Brutal, but we are in Rio merely to play By Al S. Mendoza LET me be clear with you. We are in the Rio Olympics not to win. If truth be told—and I must tell you the truth at the risk of being pilloried for being a KJ—we are…
General Admission
On Emergency Powers and Death Penalty By: Ulysses R. Butuyan PUNCHLINE: WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF THE POLICE? Their wives and mothers-in-law, definitely. GOV. “POGI” ESPINO CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Will there be free dark glasses for the cross-eyed and brain food for some politicians? PINOYS AMONG…
Punching Bug
Serious drug problem in Pangasinan By Bebot Villar THE PNP Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported that 1,074 barangays or 78.74 of barangays in Pangasinan are classified as drug–affected! Ayon sa Regulation No. 2, Series of 2007 of the Dangerous Drugs Board, a drug – affected barangay is defined…
Deretsahan
Transition and Remembrance By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ANISHA Guro, a good friend and soul sister, is having separation blues with a bench at the University of Melbourne. She is starting to miss this particular bench, its peculiarity, six months before she is going to leave, having sat there in…
