WE can say without fear of contradiction that Your PUNCH is the second surviving oldest community newspaper in Northern Luzon (next to Baguio Midland Courier in Baguio City) , and certainly one of the oldest in the country. When we say 65 years, we mean Your PUNCH has been documenting…

NOTHING can be more frustrating than to learn that after battling COVID-19, from months of uncertainties to later months of confidence knowing that “flattening of the curve” is possible with herd immunity, now comes the news that Delta, a much deadlier variant is threatening the world. After 14 months, more…

THE recent media offensive again launched by the political opposition using the war on drugs as a political issue to discredit the Duterte Administration is both detestable and deplorable. We dare say “by the opposition” instead of the International Criminal Court’s retiring chief prosecutor who issued the statement that it…

THE reported temporary suspension of inoculating Dagupeños with their first dose of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine didn’t really come as a surprise. It had to be expected, and should be expected to happen again in the weeks ahead, not only in the city but in all other vaccination sites in the…

THE reported reluctance still of a little more than thousand employees of the provincial government to accept the vaccines reserved for them is understandable. There have been numerous articles and stories from supposedly renowned medical practitioners in the world about risks involved in the chemical contents of vaccines posted in…

BBC News recently reported: “Covid-1: What went wrong in Singapore and Taiwan?” Quoting from its report, “They’ve been hailed as success stories – places that have been virtually zero or single-digit Covid cases since the start of the year. But this month, Singapore and Taiwan have both seen aggressive rise…

IT was May 20,1966, a rainy afternoon and the Sunday PUNCH was well on its 10th year of publishing. It was the day a corrupt politician in Lingayen decided the newspaper must stop to exist because of the truth it sought to publish every week. Ermin E. Garcia, The PUNCH’s…

COMPARED to other provinces in the country, the Espino administration has been most impressive in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the province. However, we sense that the call and initial rally to “flatten the curve” is lost in the din of daily exercise of  merely counting numbers of…

  IT’S obvious to everyone why some mayors still continue to be reluctant to fully stop the contagion in their communities – it is their imagined fear of payback in the 2022 polls. The fear that voters will resent any attempt at strictly enforcing the health and distancing protocols, i.e.,…

    IT is understandable when Pangasinan’s officials complain when they and their constituents suffer some inconvenience out of ordinary situations. The recent complaint manifested by two board members, Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario and Sixth District Board Member Noel Bince, last week about how the strict policy…