The best and the worst By Al S. Mendoza WE love to say that each time a calamity strikes, the best and the worst come forward. Whether typhoons or earthquakes, fires or plagues, two sets of people raise their hands—ostensibly to serve with all their hearts and minds. Usually…
Holy Water By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo GOOD evening, Dark Night! Not a drizzle, but an outpouring of rain. The rhythmic dripping enthralls, this solemn silence that feels like holy water. Not the bottled water poured over infants as they were baptized that required so many rituals to make holy….
Bike lanes nationwide soon in PH? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FOR more than a decade now, some of our lawmakers and many cycling groups in the country are clamoring for the establishment of bicycle lanes nationwide. Yes, there are some bike lanes now in the cities of Marikina, Pasig,…
Timely response from Guv By Leonardo Micua AS we write this column, Typhoon ‘Ambo” is lashing Eastern Luzon, and typhoon signal no. 1 is up in eastern and central Pangasinan. This, while we are still in the midst of our continuing battle against the deadly COVID-19. The memorandum of…
This tunnel of lights, of hearts, of life By Jing Villamil SHE wished for a symbol that would again awaken her people’s hearts, their hopes and sights. Because, for the recent past, their collective hearts had throbbed merely to survive; and their hopes and sights had merely peered round…
CASH AID FROM RELATIVES – Barangay folk form long queues in front of money remittance centers daily during the Enhanced Community Quarantine to redeem cash sent by relatives and employers to help them survive the lockdown. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
UNDER NEW GENERAL COMMUNITY QUARANTINE THE Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) withdrew its low-risk area (No-Quarantine) level for Pangasinan and classified it instead as General Community Quarantine effective May 16 to 31 following an appeal made by Governor Amado Espino III to ensure the province’s certain transition to…
THE provincial health office has recommended that tighter controls at border checkpoints be done during the General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) period to prevent further COVID-19 infection in the province. In a PUNCH interview, Provincial Health Officer Ana de Guzman said 17 cases out of the 40 confirmed positive cases contracted…
ALTHOUGH the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan has risen to 40 with the inclusion of a 29-year old male from Barangay Dupac in Asingan (see story COVID-19 resurfaces in Asingan), the four remaining COVID-19 patients from Dagupan confined at the Region 1 Medical Center have all recovered and were set to be…
QUARANTINE VS. SUMMER HEAT — A family defies the Enhanced Community Quarantine protocol that bans swimming in public beaches and rivers and bathes by the river near the Pantal-Lucao bridge. More families swim in the river daily with no one from the city government stopping them from violating the quarantine. (Punchphoto by Willie…
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