A rotten egg in the basket? By Leonardo Micua   AFTER the mainstream media broke out the good news that President Duterte deferred the implementation of the Child’s Car Seat Law, then recently declaring Private Motor Vehicles Inspection Centers (PVMICs) as being not mandatory, owners of some 12 million vehicles across the country…

Your Good Deeds Could Change the World Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani   Here’s an article I read in www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. “EVERY Sunday morning, I take a light jog around a park near my home.  There’s a…

Guadiz vs. Tamayo By Leonardo Micua   LAST Thursday, we were happy to read the online news of Philstar Global that the senate committee on public services headed by Senator Grace Poe is set to conduct an investigation in aid of legislation on the operations of the Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers …

Watch out for COVID-19 UK strain By Leonardo Micua   BEFORE our deadline, we received the good news that the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan is now on a downtrend after its sharp rise during the early part of January in the aftermath of the holiday season. And as confirmed…

A scary situation By Leonardo Micua   IT was a scary situation that I could not share with my colleagues in the PUNCH after our presswork for our January 17 issue for fear it could unduly scare them and ruin their weekends with their respective families. Thank God, that’s over….

The worst is far from over By Leonardo Micua   JUST as we were about to write this column, the social media was abuzz with reports that the UK-COVID-19 variant, described personally by President Duterte as a “monster virus”, has already managed to enter the Philippines. And this happened as the…

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…