By Ermin Garcia Jr.   WHEN church bells toll on Christmas Eve, I pray that the Dagupan City SP’s 7 epaLiFes – Councilors Red Posadas Erfe-Mejia, Dada Manoais-Reyna Macalanda, Celia Chua Lim, Irene Chua Lim, Alvin Tolentino Coquia, Alfie David Fernandez and Malou Sampaga Fernandez will have the moral courage…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   NO country in the world can ever beat the Philippines in celebrating Christmas. First of all, it’s the only place on earth that begins to play Christmas carols as early as September (the start of – Ber months)! Then malls and shops begin to mount…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE Christmas fever is on… and I hate to be the one to break the holiday mood but some recent worrisome developments in governance can’t be ignored. Duty calls! So allow me…. *          *          *          * The attempt of ex-BM Von Mark Mendoza to usurp…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   DAGUPENOS can stop wondering if Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez is, indeed, acting on the series of anomalies and irregularities her administration discovered along the way. Our headline this week is about how her earlier threats to act on the seeming bias and cover-up of the…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez never minced words to describe the criminal acts perpetrated by former officials of the Lim administration, from harassment of market vendors, proliferation of illegal fish pens, squandering the scholarship fund of the city, selective distribution of ayuda from the national…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE ongoing debate at the Dagupan City council over the scholarship fund continues to simmer all because the past Lim administration refuses to be accountable and transparent and the allies of Mr. Brian Lim holding fort in the SP are keen on being obstructionists with…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   WHAT was initially believed would be early home run on for the EpaLiFes, thanks to the grandstanding of Councilor Red Erfe-Mejia, bolstered by presence of “deprived” scholars of Dagupan City’s scholarship program during a regular session, is fast becoming a political nightmare that refuses to…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   I view the First 100 Days Report of Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez as ex-Mayor Brian Lim’s own comeuppance, for sabotaging accomplishments of her six years administration, believing he and his ilk could get away with it. Well, she didn’t let him (and them) get away…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE findings so far of irregularities in the implementation of the Dagupan City Scholarship Program are enough indicators that the program became a source for corruption during the 2019-2022 Brian Lim administration at the expense of children of poor Dagupeños deserving of government support. But…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   FINALLY, I got some tidbits about goings-on at the governor’s office from Facebook, not from an official website of Pangasinan provincial government. (Provincial government not important?). First the good news! A deep search in Guv Mon-Mon Guico’s #pangasinanangaling Facebook account revealed he is busy with…