Your PUNCH is 63 years old! WE sure have come a long way since our founder, the late Ermin Erfe-Garcia, gave life to our newspaper in July 1956. Few will now remember how life in Pangasinan was in 1956 through the 70s but we do. The PUNCH was there throughout…

Drugs in schools, colleges THE biggest target market of the drug syndicates are students whether young or adult.  There are already indications that grade schools are already being slowly penetrated using high school students as pushers. The growing student population in Pangasinan makes the province a rich primary target and…

Take a bow, UNLISERBISYO! AS Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez exits after six glorious years of public service, Dagupeños take cognizance of the new meaning of public service in this day and age that she and her team laboriously defined on every turn. There was endless flurry of activities and…

Barangay tanod, front-liner THERE has been a rash of rape and gruesome killings in communities. One cannot but wonder where the members of the barangay security, we know them as tanod, are or have been all these days. Are there no more tanod patrols of the old, they who enforce…

Ban plastics now PAGING all sanggunian bodies in Pangasinan. Climate change is upon us and it’s bad enough that our local governments have not established nor adopted mitigating measures to minimize its deathly impact on communities. Worse, our local governments continue to maintain open dumpsites in the province. Neither do…