Lessons from the monsoon rains THE recent onslaught of a 15-day downpour that hit the province caused by monsoon rains will by no means be the last. It was not one of those calamitous typhoons but still it was enough to cause some damage to properties and lives. It could…

Suspending classes selectively WHILE saving lives and properties are important in the face of calamities, a needless disruption of the education of Pangasinan’s young has to be avoided consciously. This should be the primary motivation behind the proposal to nix the present government policy of a declaration of “No Classes”…

Your Sunday Punch is 59 years old IT’S been quite a journey since our late editor-publisher Ermin Erfe Garcia founded The PUNCH and published its first issue on July 5, 1956. Here are some trivia that are perhaps unknown to today’s generation. The PUNCH was preceded by a newspaper “Pioneer…

The good and the bad WHAT President Aquino could not, and refused to do, the Ombudsman did – it sacked former PNP Chief Director-General Alan Purisima, himself a former provincial chief of Pangasinan! He was given his due after Malacanang thought it could arrange a deal that would allow the…

Does anybody know? THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently identified over 8,000 barangays in the country as drug-infected. We wonder how many of these are in Pangasinan since the province has been tagged as a major transshipment point for illegal drugs? Does anybody know? This is the baseline information…