What holds for Dagupan’s garbage? By Leonardo Micua   THE closure of the Urdaneta Sanitary Landfill by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for various violations of environmental laws and specifically for converting itself into a mere open dumpsite, inevitably put not only booming Urdaneta City that owns the…

Dagupan City vs. Pangasinan on travel protocol By Leonardo Micua   THE new uniform, standard protocol for travelers approved by the national IATF, which was adopted outright by the Pangasinan provincial government on March 1, the very day it was supposed to be effective nationwide, seemed to have gotten a cold response…

Clearly, a discrimination vs. Pinoys By Leonardo Micua   FOR the record, as of this writing, no anti-COVID-19 vaccine of any brand has arrived in the country—I mean legally—despite assurances made to us earlier by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases or IATF that the jabs…

Is MGCQ the way to go? By Leonardo Micua   CAN the country now afford to adjust its status to the less restrictive Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) by March 1 as recommended by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) fortnight ago? This question will be answered soon by officials tasked…

A rotten egg in the basket? By Leonardo Micua   AFTER the mainstream media broke out the good news that President Duterte deferred the implementation of the Child’s Car Seat Law, then recently declaring Private Motor Vehicles Inspection Centers (PVMICs) as being not mandatory, owners of some 12 million vehicles across the country…

Your Good Deeds Could Change the World Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani   Here’s an article I read in www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. “EVERY Sunday morning, I take a light jog around a park near my home.  There’s a…

Guadiz vs. Tamayo By Leonardo Micua   LAST Thursday, we were happy to read the online news of Philstar Global that the senate committee on public services headed by Senator Grace Poe is set to conduct an investigation in aid of legislation on the operations of the Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers …

Watch out for COVID-19 UK strain By Leonardo Micua   BEFORE our deadline, we received the good news that the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan is now on a downtrend after its sharp rise during the early part of January in the aftermath of the holiday season. And as confirmed…

A scary situation By Leonardo Micua   IT was a scary situation that I could not share with my colleagues in the PUNCH after our presswork for our January 17 issue for fear it could unduly scare them and ruin their weekends with their respective families. Thank God, that’s over….

The worst is far from over By Leonardo Micua   JUST as we were about to write this column, the social media was abuzz with reports that the UK-COVID-19 variant, described personally by President Duterte as a “monster virus”, has already managed to enter the Philippines. And this happened as the…