Conflict in policies By Leonardo Micua   THE recommendation of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III for LGUs to still maintain the ban on minors in shopping malls, where they run the risk of infection from COVID-19 is laudible. Children, according to Secretary Duque, are not immune to COVID-10 and they could easily…

Threat from NPA remains By Leonardo Micua   WHILE I was watching the Senate hearing about the red-tagging issue on YouTube that caused the Makabayan bloc to protest, our attention was called about an ongoing hot pursuit operations by the military against some 40 armed New People’s Army terrorists in the outskirts of Mangatarem…

Help needed for Cagayan and Isabela By Leonardo Micua   BY the skin of the teeth, Pangasinan was again spared by Typhoon Ulysses. Thank God, there was no strong typhoon that struck us and swept us off our feet this year. But Cagayan and Isabela provinces were not as lucky. They…

Issues for SITG Maganes By Leonardo Micua   WE join our media colleagues and media organizations in Manila and hereabouts in condemning the brutal slaying of our brother in the profession and townmate Virgilio “Vir” Maganes in the early morning on November 10 in Barangay San Blas, Villasis. At the…

A dire warning from SINAG By Leonardo Micua   OCCASIONED by the visit to Pangasinan of Agriculture Secretary William Dar last Friday (November 6), there is a dire warning from the Pangasinan-based Samahan ng Industriya at Agrikultura (SINAG) that that it may go to court for failure of DA to…

Prepare for ‘Rolly’ By Leonardo Micua   AS typhoon ‘Rolly’ was about to make a landfall in the eastern part of Luzon, it suddenly crossed in my mind that if only typhoons can sweep the coronavirus that had been ailing our nation, we’d rather have the howler return COVID-19 to China…

2020, a wet, pandemic year By Leonardo Micua   WE were lucky to be spared by Typhoon Pepito that lashed out in some areas in Regions II and III and IV-A (Quezon). But it’s too early to rejoice. According to PAGASA, there will be from five to eight typhoons more that will visit…

Inconvenience from contact-tracing protocol  By Leonardo Micua   FORMER Congressman, now deputy director general of the TESDA (Technical Education Skills and Development Authority) Anecito “John” Bertiz III was a bit late when he graced the program launching of the Skills Solution Training and Assessment Center in Barangay Lucao, Dagupan City…

“Are we winning the war?” By Leonardo Micua   DURING the last virtual session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Fourth District Board Member Agerico Jeremy Rosario did not get a straight answer from provincial IATF senior member Col. Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, when he asked: “Are we winning the war against COVID-19?”…

Greed threatening Dagupan bangus brand By Leonardo Micua   UNTIL a delivery truck from Bulacan was caught en flagrante delicto unloading 1,800 kilograms of  bangus at the Jose de Venecia Expressway last September 27 some of which were beginning to rot, without an auxiliary invoice from its point of origin nor…