Rapid test kits, a waste of money By Leonardo Micua IT is unconscionable of some local government units to insist on stockpiling and administering Rapid Antibody-based test kits to their constituents even after the Department of Health said it is not recommending as stand-alone tests for diagnosis of COVID-19. In…

Mayor Brian “vetoes” a resolution By Leonardo Micua ONLY a meticulous eye can detect a faux pas in the August 4, 2020 agenda of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod where it was made to appear as if Mayor Brian Lim vetoed a simple resolution of that august body. Part of the agenda…

No revolution plans by frontliners By Leonardo Micua WE understand the angst and frustration of our already exhausted health care workers over the continuing spike of COVID-19 cases in many areas which they blame chiefly to the failure of our local authorities to enforce strictly the health protocols in their…

Watching out for returning LSIs, OFWs By Leonardo Micua   I and many others had goose bumps upon seeing the raid by the CIDG on Facebook  of a computer shop in Quezon City suspected to be faking and selling negative RT-PCR results supposedly coming from a licensed laboratory. This to my…

Brian reneges on campaign promise By Leonardo Micua   DON’T just be reactive. Be proactive. This is a message for the Dagupan City officials who intend to do just a patchwork on the daily flooding in the streets caused by the high tide. They can’t possibly think of just employing…

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…