With or without Sec. Duque’s help PANGASINAN was not given a reprieve to be deemed qualified for a downgrade of its status from Enhanced Community Quarantine to General Community Quarantine, a move that could have enabled the province to move towards economic recovery. The Department of Health (DOH) must have…

Enhanced Community Health Control SINCE President Duterte has determined that Pangasinan is still a high-risk area but may be reevaluated as low risk by April 30, our provincial government must consider adopting more stringent measures to address the contagion. It is imperative for our provincial government to adopt stricter measures…

Time to be vigilant, to be optimistic IF the indicators of the latest statistics collated by the Provincial Health Office are what they show, then we have reason to be confident and optimistic that, indeed, Pangasinan is on the way to flattening the curve, finally. The strategy to immediately test…

Last chance to return to normalcy THE decision of President Duterte to extend the Enhanced Community Quarantine, to mean as placing a town/city or barangay on lockdown, till April 30 was not without data and statistics from the ground. As we have seen, lockdown means stoppage of economic activities, i.e.,…

A fair warning OUR locally elected officials, from the barangay officials to the mayors, suddenly find themselves in the most enviable positions that they never imagined would happen.  They have been tasked by the national government to manage millions of resources to be used to help ensure the success of…