Clearly, a discrimination vs. Pinoys By Leonardo Micua FOR the record, as of this writing, no anti-COVID-19 vaccine of any brand has arrived in the country—I mean legally—despite assurances made to us earlier by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases or IATF that the jabs would be coming by the […]
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Is MGCQ the way to go? By Leonardo Micua CAN the country now afford to adjust its status to the less restrictive Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) by March 1 as recommended by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) fortnight ago? This question will be answered soon by officials tasked to make a recommendation to […]
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A rotten egg in the basket? By Leonardo Micua AFTER the mainstream media broke out the good news that President Duterte deferred the implementation of the Child’s Car Seat Law, then recently declaring Private Motor Vehicles Inspection Centers (PVMICs) as being not mandatory, owners of some 12 million vehicles across the country surely rejoiced! They will no […]
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Your Good Deeds Could Change the World Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. “EVERY Sunday morning, I take a light jog around a park near my home. There’s a lake located in one corner […]
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Guadiz vs. Tamayo By Leonardo Micua LAST Thursday, we were happy to read the online news of Philstar Global that the senate committee on public services headed by Senator Grace Poe is set to conduct an investigation in aid of legislation on the operations of the Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers (PMVIC). The PMVIC is being […]
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Watch out for COVID-19 UK strain By Leonardo Micua BEFORE our deadline, we received the good news that the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan is now on a downtrend after its sharp rise during the early part of January in the aftermath of the holiday season. And as confirmed by Dr. Anna de Guzman, […]
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A scary situation By Leonardo Micua IT was a scary situation that I could not share with my colleagues in the PUNCH after our presswork for our January 17 issue for fear it could unduly scare them and ruin their weekends with their respective families. Thank God, that’s over. Two days after I joined […]
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The worst is far from over By Leonardo Micua JUST as we were about to write this column, the social media was abuzz with reports that the UK-COVID-19 variant, described personally by President Duterte as a “monster virus”, has already managed to enter the Philippines. And this happened as the anti-COVID-19 vaccine was about to […]
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Brian’s new E.O. not good enough By Leonardo Micua ON January 4, Mayor Brian Lim did not lose time in issuing an executive order reimposing the liquor ban and restoring the 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. curfew in a bid to slow down the increasing number of active COVID-19 cases in Dagupan: 184 cases […]
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Worst case scenario By Leonardo Micua THIS new year, the world is again literally on edge because of the threat of the another COVID-19 variant that had emerged suddenly in some countries. Seen by experts as 55 percent more contagious than the original strain, the new strain though they appear to be less deadly than […]