PUNCHITERIA November 22, 2020
Editorial Cartoon November 22, 2020
Editorial November 22, 2020
Urgency for Department of Disaster Resiliency THE recent flood disaster in Cagayan and Isabela of catastrophic proportion this month, and in recent years in our own region, definitely and completely provide the urgency to create the Department of Disaster Resiliency and Emergency Management. Why it doesn’t seem so for our senators escapes us. It’s the […]
Punchline
Town/city as COVID-19 epicenter By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE reaction of Sison’s local government to our last week’s headline: “Sison is new epicenter of COVID-19 cases” brought to light important lessons in effectively managing the pandemic in communities. (Due to space constraints, we can only post the full text of the letter in our […]
General Admission
It happened again, and it will happen again By Al S. Mendoza HERE we go again. Floods have submerged many parts of Luzon by typhoons Quinta, Rolly and Ulysses, as if the trio conspired to wreak havoc on this poor part of the globe. Again, lives were lost, crops destroyed and houses and properties […]
G Spot
Indak By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN my early years in Quezon City, I leased a property for ten years at Teachers Village at the corner of Maginhawa and Mahabagin Streets. This was mainly because we were a big family and I had to find a place for my growing brothers and sisters who came […]
Sports Eye
COVID-19 is softly killing world sports By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. COVID-19 already killed a million inhabitants of our planet, with the U.S., India and Brazil are topping the list, according to the latest report. Yes, the unseen disease is slowly obliterating the world’s economy, first and foremost are the third world countries, and until […]
Learnings in Life
Walking on Water Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.developgoodhabits.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. ONCE there was a boy who lived with his family on a farm. They had a beautiful dog who would go down to the pond […]
Random Thoughts
Help needed for Cagayan and Isabela By Leonardo Micua BY the skin of the teeth, Pangasinan was again spared by Typhoon Ulysses. Thank God, there was no strong typhoon that struck us and swept us off our feet this year. But Cagayan and Isabela provinces were not as lucky. They were hit by a massive […]