By Leonardo Micua   THIS week, permit me to reprint the my good friend and The Punch’s news correspondents in USA, Tocayo Leonardo J. Galvez ‘s post on his Facebook account. Mr. Galvez used to write for The Punch till he decided to migrate in the Land of Milk and…

By Leonardo Micua   DURING the first midnight mass this Yuletide season at Saint John the Evangelist Cathedral last December 16, many were touched by the homily of Archbishop Socrates Villegas who intoned  “Ang lahat ay may katapusan” (All will have its end). If you ask me, that was pregnant…

By Leonardo Micua     I was taken aback and offended when I heard City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo, whom I bumped into at the River Grove on JdV Expressway, Wednesday night, tell other local media that I was already banned from attending and covering (via zoom) all proceedings in the Sangguniang Panlungsod.   But when I called up Ryan Friday morning before I could…

By Leonardo Micua   COMEDIAN   Roderick Paulate was meted 62 years for hiring ghost employees in his office when he was Quezon City councilor in 2010, who cannot be traced if they existed or not. Note that Paulate was found guilty by the Sandiganbayan to have committed one count of…

By Leonardo Micua   GOOD news from the Dagupan City Information Office under Mayor Belen Fernandez! An Interim Report regarding the Project Preparation Study for a Tri-City Ferry System Project that will link Dagupan, Alaminos City and San Fernando cities with each other was presented last November 15 to stakeholders, government…

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…