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SP Front page August 16, 2020 issue
PUNCHITERIA August 16, 2020
Editorial Cartoon August 16, 2020
Untested mandatory distance learning IT’S just as well that the first day of the compulsory distance learning of grade school pupils and high school students has been moved to October 5. If it had not been postponed anew, we would have seen another day of chaos and confusion that accompany…
Editorial August 16, 2020
Discrimination vs. senior citizens By Ermin Garcia Jr. Last week, a 74-year-old lady, who lives alone in Mangaldan was dumbfounded at the prospect of dying from hunger because a supermarket refused to allow her to enter and buy her food items, and market officials would not allow her to…
Punchline
NBA helping us forget, if not crush, the virus By Al S. Mendoza THE National Basketball Association (NBA) has sort of become a savior. Savior, meaning the NBA has saved mankind from extended boredom. The sporting mankind, I mean. If you look at the sports pages today, virtually the NBA…
General Admission
Praying mantis By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo AT eight o’clock, there was already a long queue at Land Bank of the Philippines, Philcoa Branch. I was among the first to arrive, having been told yesterday that they could no longer accept deposits at 12:00 noon and should come today, despite…
G Spot
Admissions before media By Atty. Farah G. Decano RECENTLY, Randall Echanis, a militant peasant leader, became part of the growing number of the extrajudicially executed. He was a member of the Anakpawis Partylist. When the victim’s body was “forcibly taken” from the funeral parlor for DNA testing, the police…
Andromeda’s Vortex
BACK TO THEIR NATURAL HABITAT – BFAR National Director Eduardo Gongona, Mangatarem Mayor Ramil Ventinilla and BFAR-NIFTDC center chief Westly Rosario release the rehabilitated Olive Ridley and Green sea turtles at the Lingayen Gulf. It was doubly meaningful for Rosario because it also marked his birthday and start of his retirement. (Punchphoto by…