Punchiteria
Editorial Cartoon
Drugs in schools, colleges THE biggest target market of the drug syndicates are students whether young or adult. There are already indications that grade schools are already being slowly penetrated using high school students as pushers. The growing student population in Pangasinan makes the province a rich primary target and…
EDITORIAL
Firmly committed at 63 and beyond! By Ermin Garcia Jr. THIS month, your SUNDAY PUNCH marks its 63rd year of publishing, without any interruption since 1956. The PUNCH continued publishing even when terror struck us and founder-editor Ermin E. Garcia, was shot and murdered in our office in 1966, during…
Punchline
Clearing the air in USA By Gonzalo Duque SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA–I am here in this beautiful city of San Francisco in California on a visit that was arranged and coordinated by our kababayan, former Milpitas City Mayor Jose Esteves. Manong Joe, whose roots are from Dagupan and very much a…
Playing with Fire
Just reminiscing By Al S. Mendoza UNDER dictator Marcos, there was no freedom of speech. Thus, from 1972 to 1986, every Filipino was forbidden to speak his mind freely. There was no law to that effect but during those cruel years of Martial Law, you seal your lips or you…
General Admission
Basketball is not our world sport By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE talk of the town these days in our country is about the FIBA U19 Basketball Championship and the coming World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight unification title bout between Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and the undefeated American Keith…
Sports Eye
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in a page on www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. The Ship of FriendshipAuthor Unknown A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able…