Wanted: A calibrated preemptive response vs. dengue WHILE the economic future of Pangasinan nursing graduates who took the leakage-tainted board examination is being unfairly scuttled, there is again a potential crisis in the province that is waiting to happen – the outbreak of dengue in the province. While regional and…
Urdaneta City and Pangasinan show them how! At the outset, The PUNCH congratulates the officials of Urdaneta City for the city’s unprecedented outstanding financial performance as a city in year 2005. We extend our sincerest congratulations as well to the provincial government team led by Gov. Victor Agbayani for keeping…
Leave the electric poles alone What appears to be simply a legal tussle between two giants, the Dagupan City government and the Dagupan Electric Corporation over the payment of real property tax by the latter is actually a Damocles’ sword hanging over the heads of all Decorp customers. This is…
Suffer the Women They came home from Lebanon by the planeload – mostly women, some children. And President Arroyo exploited the publicity opportunities that came with them by being at the airport like the caring mother and head of the family that she wants to project of herself. On cue,…
Enough of lip-service for our OFWs For the past decades, individual tales of horror from hundreds, if not thousands of desperate overseas Filipino workers have been met generally with indifference by the national government. This policy of apathy has led labor officials and trustees of the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration…
Speechless President Gloria Arroyo spoke to the nation and was expected to talk about the country’s present state of affairs. To the dismay of our people, no thanks to Microsoft’s Power Point, the event was nothing but a dressed up social event in well-planned imagery, to proclaim the glorious state…
Pangasinenses are again on top! Remember Pangasinense Joan de Venecia who recently topped the bar exams? Well, here’s another one to crow about. The name is Gringo de Guzman San Diego, topnotcher in the recent nurses’ licensure examination. Yet, the last time we looked into the controversy stirred by the…
On believing the advocates of Charter Change One hundred and eight years since our independence was won in 1898, Philippines has not done much even to half deserve being called independent among nations in the Southeast Asia. Ironically we’ve done more to keep our republic lagging behind in the race…
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