WINNING the first gold medal for the country by Olympian Hidilyn Diaz couldn’t have come at a better time. The country has been in the doldrums for months, coping with various stress being suffered by families caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The only seeming action-filled drama out there are news…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE “water world” we’ve been seeing in Dagupan City the past weeks (and perhaps in other communities), is definitely merely a preview of the worst to happen. I’m referring to a situation when a code red typhoon hits northern Luzon in the middle of a…
By Al S. Mendoza TOKYO will now go down in history as the repository of our first Olympics gold medal. There’s more. It is there where we produced the first Filipino female athlete to rewrite the books multiple times. Hidilyn Diaz, take a bow. Hidilyn’s golden victory in weightlifting…
By Leonardo Micua MOVE over Manny Pacquiao. We have a new sports heroine, in the person of Hidilyn Diaz who just lifted the109 million Filipinos with her gold medal win in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Only 30 years old, Hidilyn is now the new phenomenon in Philippine sports after snaring…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WHERE is the scientific proof that vaccinated people can no longer be infected with the COVID-19 virus and its variants and therefore are not “spreaders” of the virus? Had there been a study by the Department of Health (DOH) comparing the “spreader” frequencies in both…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano WHAT with the historic Olympic gold medal win of weightlifter, Hidilyn Diaz, whose femininity is still apparent, perhaps we may now accept the idea of a muscular Filipina without assaulting her womanhood? I remember an article of fellow Sunday Punch columnist, Virginia Pasalo, that…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.advance-africa.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. IN the middle of a beautiful city, there was a museum laid with beautiful marble tiles and with a huge marble statue as…
CAPITOL URGES VIGILANCE WHILE one Delta variant has been detected in Ilocos Norte as of last week, and pending results of investigations, there is still no confirmation if a local transmission of the variant has happened in Pangasinan or in any province in the region. This was affirmed by Dr….
WATER WORLD IN DAGUPAN – Motorists carefully drive through a long stretch of flooded area along Tapuac Road leading to Perez Boulevard and Burgos St. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
RESIDENTS in Pangasinan are urged to be vigilant against the Delta variant which can spread faster than the ordinary COVID-19 strain. The call was made by Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, as she maintained that while no Delta variant has been detected in COVID patients in Pangasinan so…
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