By Leonardo Micua   WITH the arrest of dismissed mayor Alice Guo, also known as Gou Hua Ping, in Indonesia and her deportion back to PH right after, her protectors for the POGO scam business in both the past and present administrations must now be panic-stricken. That’s because of the possibility that…

By Leonardo Micua   THE Department of Justice is not buying the narrative given by Sheila Guo, who is actually Zhang Meir, a Chinese, before a Senate panel, that she, dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and brother Wesley Guo fled the Philippines by taking a boat ride to another until…

By Leonardo Micua   ATTENDING the luncheon tendered by the Dagupan City government in honor of the visiting officials of Iwata City, Japan led by its youthful mayor, Hiroaki Kasachi  at the CSI Stadia on August 21 brought back fond memories of an event I covered as a young journalist of…

By Leonardo Micua   THE six-month suspension of the vice mayor and nine members of the town council of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya for abuse of authority and dereliction of duty due to the unlawful delay in the approval of the town’s annual budget for 2023 and other measures certified by…

By Leonardo Micua   IF the honorable provincial board members of Pangasinan do not see signs of  graft in the contract between the province with an online media group in Baguio City, well, I do. The contract in the amount of P11.88 million yearly or P999,000 a month, signed  last…

By Leonardo Micua   A resolution of the Philippine Senate signed by 22 of the 23 senators, Sen. Risa Hontiveros being the exception, seeking temporary suspension of the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP), is a strong manifestation that the lawmakers are not fully satisfied with the program’s implementation so far. Even…

By Leonardo Micua   PRESIDENT BBM’s order to ban the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators in his SONA sent not only a strong message to the world that the Philippines is not a haven for scammers using the digital platform but shockwaves to the syndicates secretly funding their operations. It was…

By Leonardo Micua   NO one has to doubt the report that Dagupan is in the tail end among all cities in Region 1 for its performance given the kind of councilors that the people elected in 2022. Using their number as the majority, the seven councilors in the opposition…

By Leonardo Micua IT’S been more than one month since the 22 provincial officials returned from their “official” trip to the United States from June 1 to 9, but not one has reported gains made for the province and people from that trip, if any. It is incumbent upon them…

By Leonardo Micua   LAST week, the majority in the Sanggunian was again virtually caught lying through the skin of its teeth. It claimed a “carried motion” that ordered the city secretary “to fix the order of the minutes of sessions”  in the written manifestation customarily being submitted by the majority before…