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…

Something is fishy By Leonardo Micua   WHAT’S gotten into the heads of our public servants in, of all places, Dagupan? Suddenly, in this late stage of the Enhanced Community Quarantine, they want to impose a number coding scheme for private vehicles traveling on all major thoroughfares in the city….

Politics in SAP distribution in Dagupan By Leonardo Micua   THE distribution of the SAP fund in Dagupan City was marred with accusations of biases by Barangay Health Workers who (not the barangay kapitans) were put in charge of identifying the deserving beneficiaries, but instead picked the recipients based on…

Political bias affecting SAP aid By Leonardo Micua   BEFORE our deadline, we spotted on TV Patrol on Thursday night a poor family  in Quezon City, the wife and husband blind on both eyes, and could only rely on their small children run errands for them in this period of…

Mayor Brian’s rapid test kits By Leonardo Micua   WE read an article published online by a Manila daily that said the government has allotted P3.2 billion to buy rapid test kits, quoting the presidential adviser for entrepreneur Jose Maria Concepcion III, as saying this was done despite warning from the Department of Health…

Astrodome, the wrong place By Leonardo Micua   DID the city of Dagupan commit the mistake of making the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome as an additional isolation area for Patients Under Investigation (PUI) in the event the COVID-19 contagion in the city worsens? Methinks that even if the Astrodome, as the site for 30 PUIs with mild symptoms in modular tents donated…