Brian’s new E.O. not good enough By Leonardo Micua   ON January 4, Mayor Brian Lim did not lose time in issuing an executive order reimposing the liquor ban and restoring the 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. curfew in a bid to slow down the increasing number of active COVID-19…

Worst case scenario By Leonardo Micua   THIS new year, the world is again literally on edge because of the threat of the another COVID-19 variant that had emerged suddenly in some countries. Seen by experts as 55 percent more contagious than the original strain, the new strain though they…

Nuezca tarnished the PNP uniform By Leonardo Micua   THE image of the police has suffered a big blow from that outburst of unrestrained  emotion of P/Sr. Master Sergeant Jose Nuezca of the Paranaque Police, who gunned down in cold blood an old woman, Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank, over…

Make that sacrifice, stay home By Leonardo Micua   SHORTLY after PNP chief, Director General Debold Sinas, warned that partygoers during the Christmas season will be arrested as one of the measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III had reported that COVID-19 cases are again…

From political underling to being ingrate By Leonardo Micua   BEFORE our deadline, and unknown to many at this time of the pandemic I received a report that the old dirty tactic of herding grassroot politicians, including media men kuno, for a “pow-wow” has made a comeback this early and is now…

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…