By Leonardo Micua   THE surprise drug testing of barangay officials in Bayambang by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in coordination with the Municipal Drug Abuse Council (MADAC) is a very commendable move and should be done by the PDEA in other 43 towns and four cities of Pangasinan, too!…

By Leonardo Micua   WHILE many people in Dagupan were still snoring in bed early Friday morning, Mayor Belen Fernandez and her staff were already raring to conduct a new round of inspection of the city’s rivers to see the progress of demolition of illegal fish pens by personnel of…

By Leonardo Micua   IN the recent call of Mayor Belen Fernandez for a special audit of the finances of Dagupan by either the regional or national offices of the Commission on Audit, it is possible that she mistrusts the COA in Dagupan or she suspects that office to have…

By Leonardo Micua HERE is a fair warning to local government executives in Pangasinan who may have employed or continue to employ losing candidates in the last election as consultants. It might interest them to know that a former mayor of Panglao town in Bohol was meted 24 years in prison…

By Leonardo Micua NOW that the two lanes of the Dawel Bridge are open for light vehicle traffic after two months of retrofitting, it is comforting to see that personnel of Pangasinan Second Engineering District and POSO of Dagupan are still strictly enforcing the five-tons limit for weight of vehicles crossing…

By Leonardo Micua   SO, the gunman in the slaying of hard-hitting broadcaster Percy Lapid whose real name is Percy Mabasa, surrendered to the police after being bothered by his conscience. But the alleged middleman from the National Bilibid Prison implicated by the confessed gunman was found to have already…

By Leonardo Micua   WHEN the Dagupan City council had Attys. Reggie Ravanzo, Conrado Guadiz, Jimmy Arzadon, Dr. Alfredo Sta. Maria and yes, Pedro Torio and Pepito Calimlim as councilors, newsmen always looked forward in covering the Sangguniang Panlungsod. They talked sense, argued and debated on the floor as statesmen…

By Leonardo Micua   WE are glad that LTFRB Region 1 swiftly acted on the case of overcharging by one jeepney driver plying the San Fabian to Dagupan route. We heard the driver was charging P50 per passenger and when the passengers protested, the driver angrily shouted at them as if…

By Leonardo Micua   PANGASINAN and Dagupan City may have been spared by the wrath of Typhoon “Karding”, but our neighboring provinces in Central Luzon up to Calabarzon were not. An example is Nueva Ecija, the undisputed rice granary of the Philippines and today’s largest rice producer in PH, with Isabela…

By Leonardo Micua   THOSE who are not concerned about the disappearance of Coca-Cola and its allied products in the shelves of supermarkets and sari-sari stores, we would like to announce we do and it matters to us. This even if we are not a drinker of Coke nor a…