DURING the campaign period, when then former Mayor Belen Fernandez was seeking to retake the post she surprisingly lost in 2019, she anchored her campaign promise on a firm pledge to rid the city government of corruption and to make officials that squandered the city’s resources that served under Mayor…
EMERGENCY CALL FOR HEALTH RESPONDERS – A Dagupan resident’s blood pressure and oxygen level is monitored by health responders after he complained of pains on the nape after being administered his vaccine. It appeared he did not reveal his comorbidities before he was inoculated. He was rushed to the hospital where he…
EMERGENCY CALL FOR HEALTH RESPONDERS
We are presently experiencing technical problems with our website. We are unable to receive postings for PUNCH FORUM. For the meantime, we request posters to email their comments to sundaypunch2@yahoo.com We apologize for this inconvenience. We hope to restore normal procedure very soon.
Editor’s Note
FORUM POLICY August 10, 2009 Dear Forum Posters: This is in reaction to requests for changes in the Forum format/policy. Permit me to clarify and state our position on the issues raised. The Forum was started with one thought – to provide Pangasinenses a venue for their thoughts whatever their…
Editor’s Notes
Dear Online PUNCH readers and Kabaleyans – I sure hope you were pleasantly surprised on seeing our new website design after viewing the same old template for over 10 years! Yes, it has been that long. Your SUNDAY PUNCH was the first Filipino community newspaper that dared to take that…
Editor’s Note
1 September 2007 Below is an email from Mr. Nap Casilang, a PUNCH Online regular, sent to me last August 17 which I want to share for I think it is worthy of consideration by all posters. ”Kuya Ermin and everyone else at The PUNCH: A little less than a…
Letter from a poster
Dear Forum Posters – May we kindly request you to post your messages on our website’s Message Board to facilitate the posting. This way your messages are directed to a specific folder for the editor’s immediate attention. Kindly desist from sending your messages intended for the forum to our…
Editor’s Note
Our attention has been called about spammers lifting names and addresses from our forum for their purposes, and use the same data to reach everyone. In this regard, while we will continue to require forum posters to submit their verifiable email addresses, the addresses will no longer be posted…
Fighting the spammers!
Re: Issue on Full Disclosures, web administrative errors, and Kabaleyan Membership For the past days, we have been reading postings and arguments about the need or no need for full disclosure of readers who post comments. I ask our readers-contributors who regularly post their comments to put an end…
Forum Policy on identity of posters
I fully appreciate the concerns expressed by posters Mr. Delfin and Mr. Pontaoe. However, while full disclosure is to be encouraged among Forum-posters, this cannot be made a mandatory requirement for the Forum section because this is not an e-group. What is far more important to the Forum is the…