PANDEMONIUM has set in and nothing seems to work in reining in the seeming runaway contagion. Has the COVID-19 virus just suddenly become highly infectious that people are catching the virus from everywhere, and more people are being rushed to the hospital, more people are dying? No. Or, are we…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE decided on the unprecedented high number of COVID-19 deaths in one day in Dagupan City as The PUNCH’s headline this week if only to make our communities realize the deadly consequences of irresponsibility and serious lack of discipline in our midst. It’s not our…
By Al S. Mendoza WHAT happened to Manny Pacquiao? Why did he lose to Yordenis Ugas on Aug. 22 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada? Wasn’t he supposed to win based on statistics and fight predictions? Nothing much actually happened to Pacquiao, except that he has grown old….
By Leonardo Micua THE city of Dagupan is now on the edge. Not only because it has gone back as the epicenter of the pandemic in the whole of Pangasinan on account of its continuously surging COVID-19 cases but also because, along with Ilocos Norte, it is now on COVID-19…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano I SAW this “Saluyot at Durian” tandem being pushed by some people on Facebook. These products of the soil refer to Former Senator Bongbong Marcos and Mayor Sara Duterte. Obviously, the spin doctors want the common tao to identify with this team for they…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. GONE are his footwork, reflex, agility, elusiveness, punching power, stamina, but his cleverness still stays. That’s what we observed last Sunday, August 22, how our boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao suffered an startling defeat in the hands of little known Cuban pug and failed to…
Oscar Wilde Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.americanliterature.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. IT was night-time and He was alone. And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards the city. And…
DAGUPAN LOGS 204 NEW CASES THE province lost 15 ‘kabaleyans’ to COVID-19 on August 24 as the infection surged with 344 new active cases. In its update that day, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported 27 cases higher than Monday’s 317 new cases. Dagupan City logged 204 new active cases,…
NO FEAR. NO CHILD SUPERVISION – The community in Sitio Cabarwan, Brgy. Banaoang, Calasiao town is not the least concerned about rising COVID-19 cases in the town and the vulnerability of children to the disease. Children are not made to wear face masks during playtime .Worse, no parent or adult from the barangay cares…
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