By Al S. Mendoza A jab usually happens in boxing. It is delivered by the left hand if you are an orthodox. Orthodox, meaning you are a right-hander. In boxing, the jab is the lightest of all punches. That’s why it usually cannot hurt the one absorbing it. It is…
By Leonardo Micua WE don’t know if the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease made the right decision in recommending to President Rodrigo Duterte the downgrading of the quarantine classification of NCR+ bubble from ECQ to the less restrictive MECQ. While the surge may have slowed down a…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WHEN I listen to Dr. Tony Leachon, former Special Adviser to the National Task Force on COVID-19, the conclusion is that the Philippine Healthcare system is on the verge of a collapse. To him, and most of the scientific community, there is no other conclusion…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano “KUNG gusto mong lumigaya ang iyong buhay Humanap ka ng pangit at ibigin mong tunay” I can’t believe that it was thirty long years ago when this song first dominated the airwaves. It seems as if this was just recently popularized. It has become…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS surprised and touched by the FB footage posted by Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil last week when he announced the construction of a mountain bike trail in the grassy, spacious area located in Barangay Pangapisan Norte beside the Limahong channel of the scenic…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read on www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. EVERY Sunday morning I take a light jog around a park near my home. There’s a lake located in one corner of the…
AS NCR+ CASES CONTINUE TO SURGE REACTING to the banner headline of the SUNDAY PUNCH’S April 11 issue that NCR COVID-19 patients are already being confined in Dagupan City hospitals, Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza asked if the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases…
TIME-OUT FOR SENIORS – After completing the vaccination of medical frontliners in Dagupan City, the city’s elders are show a video clip about the vaccination at the Dagupan Astrodome while they await their turn for their allocation of the vaccine for senior citizens. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
QUARANTINE PROTOCOL NOT STRICTLY ENFORCED PANGASINAN will go the way of the National Capital Region + if no serious efforts are made to quarantine patients or if local governments will continue to take quarantine very lightly. This was the warning of Wilson Chua, CEO of the Dagupan-based Bitstop, Inc., who…
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