By Leonardo Micua THOUGH I wore a MAGA (Make America Great Again) baseball cap gifted by our Los Angeles City-based correspondent Leonie Galvez on some occasions, I must admit I was not really a Donald Trump fan. Well, not until he recently brokered what seemed to be a total…
By Leonardo Micua AS I was writing this piece, breaking news from CNN came on TV about President Donald Trump reviewing an Iran attack plan and holding off for now. Many lives have been lost, maimed and decapitated on both the Israeli and Iranian sides since the war between…
Fears of another world war
By Leonardo Micua THE most recent attempt to smuggle over one ton of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) valued at P6. 89 billion into Pangasinan was foiled by law-enforcement authorities with crucial help from local fishermen. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. Similar illicit operations have taken place in the…
Time to revive Operation Coast Watch
By Leonardo Micua SHORTLY after being sworn in as the next chief of the Philippine National Police, General Nicolas Torre III issued a marching order to the men in uniform nationwide to be out on the streets so they can be more responsive to calls for help from the civilian…
Police watch under Torre
By Leonardo Micua RUSHING against time to make a last hurrah, the seven majority councilors in the Dagupan Sanggunian believe they can still ramp up the approval of three proposed ordinances and two resolutions before the term of six of them expires on June 30. Based on the May…
Time is up for the obstructionists
By Leonardo Micua IT is sad to note that not one of our homegrown party-list groups won a congressional seat in the May 12 elections. This is the first time that one of the most populous provinces in the country is not sending a party-list representative to the House….
Why no party-list in Pangasinan won
By Leonardo Micua THE UnliSerbisyo team of Dagupan made history of sorts when it scored a near sweep of the May 12 elections at the expense of the opposition group led by the Lim mother and son tandem. Credit it to the hard work of Mayor Belen Fernandez who campaigned…
Suspended but not defeated
By Leonardo Micua TOMORROW, May 12, the people will go to the polls to elect leaders who will take the mantle of responsibility in governing them for another three years for local officials, and six years for the senators. We just hope and pray that they will be making…
Pakurong is real
By Leonardo Micua SENATORIAL wannabe Rep. Camille Villar was among the biggest crowd-drawers, together with our own Manay Gina de Venecia, during Dagupan’s “Kalutan ed Dalan” and Street Party last April 30. Camille’s presence during the event more than made up for her absence, as she was under the weather,…
Camille at the Kalutan
By Leonardo Micua IF Comelec wants us to believe it is playing fair and square, it should send a show-cause order not only to Alyansa senatorial candidate Camille Villar but to all others who seemed to have made a mockery of election laws by letting out so much of…