I lost Chammy, my playmate By Leonardo Micua   I am in grief. My whole family is in grief. Our beloved eight-year old granddaughter Chammy (Mary Therese Micua) died in a vehicular accident when a wayward semi-trailer truck invaded a Rest Area for vehicles along the Hume Highway, southeast of…

Issues about back riders By Leonardo Micua  THE announcement of Secretary Eduardo Año that beginning July 10 (Friday), motorcycle drivers can have their wives, live-in partners, or even their girlfriends or boyfriends, living under the same roof, as back riders elated many Filipinos no end. Some said it is long…

Another pandemic soon? By Leonardo Micua   THE foreign press quoting sources from think tanks in the United States warn us of a new virus that may have the potential of developing into another pandemic as lethal as the one that we have today–the COVID-19 pandemic. While the world is…

COVID-19’s curve here flattened? By Leonardo Micua    IF you go by hard facts, the province of Pangasinan already flattened the curve, so to speak, in the fight against COVID-19 as early as March 18, the day—if you can recall–  when the province registered the last of its only nine…

Life for Pinoys in USA By Leonardo Micua   I got a call on my Messenger from my good friend Manny Zambrano who now lives and works in Chicago, USA who said Filipino immigrants like him and his family are being enticed to join the almost daily street marches that…

Pangasinan on a roll By Leonardo Micua   CONGRATULATIONS to the province of Pangasinan for being one of the seven of the 81 provinces in the entire country to qualify for the 2019 Local Government Unit (LGU) Performance-Based Bonus. Ditto to the other 17 LGUs also qualified for the 2019…

A day of Rapid Testing not enough By Leonardo Micua   A letter of Dagupan City Administrator Vlad Mata dated June 3, 2020 was posted on social media, inviting several sections and organizations in the city to send some members or staff directly catering daily to the public face-to-face, to undergo a…

 MGCQ for Dagupan is overdue By Leonardo Micua   LIKE many others, we are optimistic that beginning June 1, under Modified General Community Quarantine, life will be much better for us all in Dagupan than when we were under the Enhanced Community Quarantine and two months later under the General Community Quarantine….

Politics in food aid distribution By Leonardo Micua   IT is quite disgusting if not revolting to know that politics still rear its ugly head in many places even while we are still in the midst of our painstaking battle against COVID-19 and under the General Community Quarantine. A case in…

Timely response from Guv By Leonardo Micua   AS we write this column, Typhoon ‘Ambo” is lashing Eastern Luzon, and typhoon signal no. 1 is up in eastern and central Pangasinan. This, while we are still in the midst of our continuing battle against the deadly COVID-19. The memorandum of…