By Leonardo Micua BARELY less than two weeks from now and in the midst of the pandemic, prospective candidates will troop to the Comelec to file their respective certificates of candidacy to finally start off the election season. In the national scene, Senator Ping Lacson and his running mate Senate President…

By Leonardo Micua   WITH its 333 active cases as of September 8, San Fernando City, La Union, voluntarily placed itself under the General Community Quarantine, a notch higher than the Modified General Community Quarantine classification of the whole of La Union, by virtue of Executive Order No. 129-2021 issued…

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 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 Leonardo Micua   “DAD, we’re on lockdown”. That was the cryptic message on my FB messenger from my daughter-n-law Mirasol from Auckland, New Zealand last Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NZ time). Two hours earlier, she and my two granddaughters , Sophia and Isabelle, watched their Prime Minister…

By Leonardo Micua   WITH the serious threat posed by COVID-19 variants, including the more transmissible Delta variant, it may really just be a matter of time before Dagupan is locked down under the specter of a full-blown pandemic. God forbid, it will not! It was Mayor Brian Lim himself,…

By Leonardo Micua   NOW that the Delta variant of the COVID-19 strain is baring its deadly fangs in Metro Manila and the whole nation, many people think that the continuous non-operation of buses from Pangasinan to Metro Manila and vice versa is actually a blessing in disguise for the…

By Leonardo Micua   MOVE over Manny Pacquiao. We have a new sports heroine, in the person of Hidilyn Diaz who just lifted the109 million Filipinos with her gold medal win in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Only 30 years old, Hidilyn is now the new phenomenon in Philippine sports after snaring…

By Leonardo Micua   WE may be focusing too much attention on our borders in a bid to stop the entry of a person who may knowingly or unknowingly be carrying the dreaded Delta variant. But this 60 percent more transmittable strain of the coronavirus may yet ultimately reach us through…

By Leonardo Micua THE cat is finally out of the bag. The bus operators finally spilled the beans why no provincial bus is still operating the Pangasinan-Metro Manila route. At the July 12 Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, it was revealed that it is the IATF resolution 101- 2021 that’s…