COA, a tool for good governance AUDITORS, particularly within the government service context, typically evoke dread. That is rightly so because their role is to check, scrutinize, and double check the spending of public funds, which we all know are more often than not subject to abuse and corruption by…

Telling the Pangasinan story TIMES have tremendously changed since The Sunday PUNCH first went to press in July 1956. At that time, barangays, municipalities, cities, and provinces were distinctly defined not just by geographic boundaries but by the limited communication and transport facilities that allowed people to connect with each…

The council ONE of the great things about the democratic system is that is it supposed to foster a healthy opposition, ideally ensuring that not one man or party will ever be able to hold despotic power and abuse authority. This holds true not just at the national level government…

Don’t like school IT is bad enough that the enrollment rate in the province is declining due to economic reasons. Even public schools, which charge minimal fees, are no longer an option for poor families because they cannot afford the other costs that go with providing children a proper education:…

Who’s accountable? TREAT Mother Nature kindly and we are guaranteed to harvest her bounty. Treat her harshly and we can be sure to suffer her wrath. We have again been reminded of this simple and basic law of nature when greed and corruption led to yet another fishkill in Anda…