THE recent media offensive again launched by the political opposition using the war on drugs as a political issue to discredit the Duterte Administration is both detestable and deplorable. We dare say “by the opposition” instead of the International Criminal Court’s retiring chief prosecutor who issued the statement that it…

THE reported temporary suspension of inoculating Dagupeños with their first dose of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine didn’t really come as a surprise. It had to be expected, and should be expected to happen again in the weeks ahead, not only in the city but in all other vaccination sites in the…

THE reported reluctance still of a little more than thousand employees of the provincial government to accept the vaccines reserved for them is understandable. There have been numerous articles and stories from supposedly renowned medical practitioners in the world about risks involved in the chemical contents of vaccines posted in…

BBC News recently reported: “Covid-1: What went wrong in Singapore and Taiwan?” Quoting from its report, “They’ve been hailed as success stories – places that have been virtually zero or single-digit Covid cases since the start of the year. But this month, Singapore and Taiwan have both seen aggressive rise…

IT was May 20,1966, a rainy afternoon and the Sunday PUNCH was well on its 10th year of publishing. It was the day a corrupt politician in Lingayen decided the newspaper must stop to exist because of the truth it sought to publish every week. Ermin E. Garcia, The PUNCH’s…

COMPARED to other provinces in the country, the Espino administration has been most impressive in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the province. However, we sense that the call and initial rally to “flatten the curve” is lost in the din of daily exercise of  merely counting numbers of…

  IT’S obvious to everyone why some mayors still continue to be reluctant to fully stop the contagion in their communities – it is their imagined fear of payback in the 2022 polls. The fear that voters will resent any attempt at strictly enforcing the health and distancing protocols, i.e.,…

    IT is understandable when Pangasinan’s officials complain when they and their constituents suffer some inconvenience out of ordinary situations. The recent complaint manifested by two board members, Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario and Sixth District Board Member Noel Bince, last week about how the strict policy…

  WHAT is the Dagupan City government up to this time, insisting on the resumption of the annual celebration of the Bangus Festival amid the Covid virus pandemic?  The motivation to hold it at this time is definitely cause for alarm and suspicion. The Covid pandemic continues to require strict…

  THE conflicting policies in the campaign vs COVID-19 in Pangasinan are suddenly becoming evident (and alarming), indicating to us that the worse is yet to happen. Obviously through no fault of the provincial government, we have a dire situation where the province’s provincial IATF is caught between the devil…