By Leonardo Micua   THE QuadCom hearing in Congress probing the alleged extra-judicial killings (EJKs) during the previous administration yielded a positive result, at least as far as the unsolved bizarre killing in 2020 of retired General Wesley Barayuga, a member of PMA Class of 1983, a respected AFP officer…

By Leonardo Micua   IT seems that the people of Dagupan will now have to kiss the planned P150-million Mother and Child Hospital, courtesy of the Department of Health (DOH), goodbye following a resolution adopted by the seven majority in the city council that in the words of City Legal…

By Leonardo Micua   JUST three weeks after the Philippine National Police (PNP) was branded in a congressional hearing as the “biggest crime group in the Philippines”, it was again put in the spotlight following the shocking revelation in the Senate that it was an ex-PNP chief who helped dismissed mayor…

By Leonardo Micua   FOR the nth time, the members of the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan again indicated they are in no mood to approve a resolution that could lead to the establishment of the P150 million Maternal and Child Care Hospital (Mother and Child Hospital)….

By Leonardo Micua   WITH the arrest of dismissed mayor Alice Guo, also known as Gou Hua Ping, in Indonesia and her deportion back to PH right after, her protectors for the POGO scam business in both the past and present administrations must now be panic-stricken. That’s because of the possibility that…

By Leonardo Micua   THE Department of Justice is not buying the narrative given by Sheila Guo, who is actually Zhang Meir, a Chinese, before a Senate panel, that she, dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and brother Wesley Guo fled the Philippines by taking a boat ride to another until…

By Leonardo Micua   ATTENDING the luncheon tendered by the Dagupan City government in honor of the visiting officials of Iwata City, Japan led by its youthful mayor, Hiroaki Kasachi  at the CSI Stadia on August 21 brought back fond memories of an event I covered as a young journalist of…

By Leonardo Micua   THE six-month suspension of the vice mayor and nine members of the town council of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya for abuse of authority and dereliction of duty due to the unlawful delay in the approval of the town’s annual budget for 2023 and other measures certified by…

By Leonardo Micua   IF the honorable provincial board members of Pangasinan do not see signs of  graft in the contract between the province with an online media group in Baguio City, well, I do. The contract in the amount of P11.88 million yearly or P999,000 a month, signed  last…

By Leonardo Micua   A resolution of the Philippine Senate signed by 22 of the 23 senators, Sen. Risa Hontiveros being the exception, seeking temporary suspension of the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP), is a strong manifestation that the lawmakers are not fully satisfied with the program’s implementation so far. Even…