By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHAT a revelation that was by LTFRB when it unwittingly admitted that its policy compelling provincial buses operating in the central and northern Luzon to use the North Luzon Express Terminal exclusively (and not the bus companies own terminals), during the Question Hour of the…
By Al S. Mendoza SIX days from today on July 23, the pandemic-postponed Olympics will blast off in Tokyo. We have 19 entries in the Summer Games originally set in 2020 until COVID-19 interrupted its staging. They will join some 11,000 athletes from more than 205 countries seeking fame…
By Leonardo Micua THE cat is finally out of the bag. The bus operators finally spilled the beans why no provincial bus is still operating the Pangasinan-Metro Manila route. At the July 12 Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, it was revealed that it is the IATF resolution 101- 2021 that’s…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I DO not exactly know when I was invited to write for Sunday Punch. The first person however who brought up the idea was Gonzalo Duque, who was then writing for the newspaper. “It would be good for your advocacy. I know the publisher very…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano WOULD you be willing to sacrifice one life to save five lives? That, in a nutshell, is the crux of the famed trolley problem. In last week’s issue, the controversy was limited to the out-of-control train that was about to run over five strangers…
Stephen Leacock Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.americanliterature.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. YOU might think that borrowing a match upon the street is a simple thing. But any man who has ever tried it will…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF the Lim administration in Dagupan City is still looking for ways to give meaning to its “Shared Responsibility,” it should look no further. The “P10K Ayuda, Ang Pag-asa” and “Sari-sari community Store”, the two advocacies of former House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, are about…
By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao is now in America preparing for his August 22 (PHL time) fight. He has been reunited with Freddie Roach, his legendary American trainer for 20 years or so now, at the famed Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, California. Pacquiao is set to…
By Leonardo Micua RAPPLER reported that the Department of Health has acknowledged on July 5 that two more cases of the highly-transmittable COVID-19 Delta variant, responsible for driving the surge in India, has entered the Philippines. Earlier, 17 COVID-19 patients were detected in genome sequencing of their specimens by the Philippine Genome Center,…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I LOVE airplanes. As a young child, I would watch airplanes cruising in the blue sky, some quietly, some with cloud-like white tails. My uncle Opie, who was an Air Force pilot, used to write me letters, which my father read to me, about being…
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