Your SUNDAY PUNCH is 64 years old WHEN our founder-editor Ermin Erfe Garcia, started to publish the news in July 5, 1956 as these happened in Pangasinan for the next ten years, little did he know that his original pocket-sized newspaper then would be the only news publication in Pangasinan…

Parents need guidance for children’s education It is becoming more evident that COVID-19 will be with us for a long time. Perhaps the economy will survive the onslaught but the bigger questions in all parents’ minds are: When will our children be able to continue their education?  Can our children’s…

Ready for Old and New Normal? IF the data culled on the status of the campaign vs. COVID-19 as of June 18 are to be believed, indeed, Pangasinan has reason to be optimistic that the shift to both the old and new normal can proceed earlier and better than expected….

Work on discipline THE meeting recently convened by Gov. Amado Espino III to assess community development plans was timely and definitely forward-looking. Between the COVID-19 crisis and the plan of the national government to defeat terrorism, a local government that will remain merely reactionary is tantamount to having a governance…

The long overdue accreditation of R1MC THE recent accreditation of Region1 Medical Center by the Department of Health authorized to test specimens for rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for COVID-19 using cartridges should help efforts of the provincial government to flatten the curve with certainty. For too long, hundreds of…