By Leonardo Micua WITH its 333 active cases as of September 8, San Fernando City, La Union, voluntarily placed itself under the General Community Quarantine, a notch higher than the Modified General Community Quarantine classification of the whole of La Union, by virtue of Executive Order No. 129-2021 issued…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I learned that a monument of Rizal was taken down to give way to another monument in a Pangasinan town, fermenting a quiet dissent among Masons and Rizal advocates. Another monument was beheaded by a lightning in a Pangasinan island some time ago. Whether these…
By Atty. Farah Decano SIX years ago, a nurse from an elderly home abroad came to my office and talked about the administration of painkillers to those who are already in the twilight of their lives. He contended that those who were already advanced in age would be vulnerable…
By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE 21-day 2021 Tour of Spain popularly known in the cycling world as Vuelta a España ended last Sunday, September 5. Being a former professional cyclist, I cannot help but comment on this multi-stage annual bikefest considered by the world governing cycling body Union Cycliste…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. SOCRATES, the great Greek philosopher, had a nagging and quarrelsome wife, Xanthippe. One day she shouted furiously at Socrates and his friends. Finding…
‘NO MOVEMENT DAY’ WEEKLY OBSERVANCE of a “no movement day” once a week and the reinstatement of market schedules as a well as the issuance of quarantine passes are among the salient provisions imposed by Governor Amado Espino III when Pangasinan was placed under the higher General Community Quarantine…
WHAT GCQ? — Even after the National IATF granted the provincial government’s request for higher community classification from Modified General Community Quarantine to General Community Quarantine due to surging active cases in the province, barangay folks in Barangay Banaoang in Calasiao town don’t seem alarmed as children play on the streets without face…
“THE WORST IS YET TO COME” TWO out of ten Dagupeňos are likely to be infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19 in varying degrees of condition – from mild to fatal – in the next two weeks even as the local government continues to grapple in containing the rapid…
PANGASINAN’S WAR ON COVID-19 PANGASINAN continues to grapple with the surge of the pandemic being confronted with 2,355 new cases, with only 50 percent recovery performance of cases at 1,154, for the period September 3 to 9, effectively pulling up the number of active cases confined in hospitals and LGU-managed…
ANOTHER RECORD HIGH DAGUPAN CITY continues to be the epicenter of the pandemic in the province when it registered the biggest single day surge of 109 cases against just 34 recoveries on September 9, bringing its active cases up to another record high of 742. Now under the General Community…
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