PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency recently confirmed that only 941 barangays (83%) out of 1,136 in Pangasinan have been declared “drug-cleared” since the drug war launched by the Duterte administration. There are still 195 barangays that remain to be cleared. Still the number does not include the number of the drug-cleared…
THE July 27’s magnitude 5 earthquake that shook many parts of Pangasinan should be viewed as a grim reminder that the province remains very vulnerable to deadly earthquakes like the magnitude 7.6 tremblor that left Dagupan City in ruins in July 16, 1990. In fact, as Governor Ramon Guico III…
THE province’s new set of mayors are expected to put their best foot forward in the first 100 Days after being given the mandate to serve for three years, mostly on the basis of the campaign promises. Their credibility and integrity are at stake if they fail to show that…
THE current data on the COVID-19 pandemic in Pangasinan is not at all alarming, not yet. However, given the nature of the coronavirus, the level of infection can still be murderous if it is not given the 24/7 attention it deserves. The sudden surge of the virus infection in China,…
ERMIN Erfe Garcia founded your Sunday PUNCH on July 5, 1956. He wanted a pocket-size newspaper (tabloid size papers were unknown then) that’d be easier for readers to handle. Today, aside from the changes in the paper’s physical dimension and page formats over time, your PUNCH has not digressed nor…
GIVEN the vision of the province’s new governor, Ramon Guico III, who heralded doable plans to boost economic development of Pangasinan, it’d do well for mayors of our towns and cities to align their vision as well with his. The Guico agenda may be ambitious but definitely doable if given…
STARTING next week, our communities will be watching how our newly reelected and elected provincial and local officials will conduct themselves in the next 100 days. Here are some barometers uppermost in our local communities’ minds. Firstly, while it is safe to assume that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic…
IF there is one legacy that the Espino III administration will long be remembered for in its last term, it’d be the effective management not only of the COVID-19 pandemic but the upgrading of the services of provincial hospitals that provided quality health care for the poorest. Governor Amado Espino…
PANGASINAN couldn’t be prouder of its son, Dr. Francisco T. Duque III, the country’s outgoing Health Secretary, he who single-mindedly led the nation’s campaign to beat the COVID-19 pandemic… and succeeded! As one of the key and most trusted cabinet members of the Duterte government, it was not surprising that…
THE national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has, of late, been downplaying the predicted surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. The provincial IATF is echoing the same. But the context of a surge continues to be about level of contagion, specifically numbers of mild,…
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