By Leonardo Micua SOME Dagupan City councilors rang the alarm bell in their last session on Thursday when they confirmed that local hospitals, public and private, have already been overwhelmed on account of the surging COVID-19 cases numbering 565 the day before with at least 275 diagnosed as mild cases. Digressing…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN the book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell redefines how we can understand the world around us. He revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Gladwell talks about the processing of information from “thin-slicing” or filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano THE rapid increase in Covid cases is now resulting in a spiked demand for expert medical attention. Doctors, nurses, medical technologists, radiologists and other health care workers (HCWs) are overwhelmed by the influx of patients. They are, either, dying, getting sick, or psychologically drained. …
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER one week of rest and treatment of the bruises he sustained in his botched attempt to regain the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight diadem from defending champion Yordenis Ugas of Cuba last August 22 (PH time) in Las Vegas, our boxing icon Manny…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. THE proprietor of a large construction company had a dishonest manager who used fraudulent means to cheat the customers and make money for…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE decided on the unprecedented high number of COVID-19 deaths in one day in Dagupan City as The PUNCH’s headline this week if only to make our communities realize the deadly consequences of irresponsibility and serious lack of discipline in our midst. It’s not our…
By Al S. Mendoza WHAT happened to Manny Pacquiao? Why did he lose to Yordenis Ugas on Aug. 22 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada? Wasn’t he supposed to win based on statistics and fight predictions? Nothing much actually happened to Pacquiao, except that he has grown old….
By Leonardo Micua THE city of Dagupan is now on the edge. Not only because it has gone back as the epicenter of the pandemic in the whole of Pangasinan on account of its continuously surging COVID-19 cases but also because, along with Ilocos Norte, it is now on COVID-19…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano I SAW this “Saluyot at Durian” tandem being pushed by some people on Facebook. These products of the soil refer to Former Senator Bongbong Marcos and Mayor Sara Duterte. Obviously, the spin doctors want the common tao to identify with this team for they…
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