By Ermin Garcia Jr.   IT’S time the Pangasinan chapters of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to collaborate and petition the Supreme Court to withdraw its rule allowing arrested drug suspects to avail of a plea bargaining agreement that…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   I was in EDSA February 23, 1986, a day after Cardinal Sin rallied Catholics to protect the Enrile-Ramos tandem from certain deaths. It was an event that a journalist would not miss. I listened and looked into the eyes of the hundreds those who quickly…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE rampant, unchecked and tolerated protection racket at the Magsaysay Market by personnel appointed by the city hall can no longer be covered up by the Lim administration. In fact, the NBI and the Dagupan City Prosecutor’s Office will be shocked to discover that the…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   WHO would have thought or expected a senatorial candidate would practice what he preaches about his advocacy during a campaign at a critical stage of his political career? Well, former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano who’s making a comeback as senator in 2022 decided to conduct…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   OK, here we are… the campaign period is on. Unlike in boxing that has a few rules that referees watch out for, electoral contests in our country have a hundred and one rules that are either unenforceable or no one is interested to see these…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE Dagupan City councilors have every reason to be miffed by the city’s Public Information Office for dishing out half-truths (half-lies?) about the issues surrounding the delay in the passage of the city’s 2022 annual budget, particularly the message that points to them as the…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE reported deplorable tirades of Presidential Adviser Sec. Raul Lambino against local broadcast journalists, describing the latter as “terrorists” and “prostitutes”, is worrisome especially for him… and he seems unaware of this. While Mr. Lambino has every right to consider filing charges against specific broadcasters…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   FOR Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim to admonish the city council “to stop playing politics” is laughable if not completely comical because it is hypocritical. More than anything else, it’s clearly an indication that he’s grasping at straws to cover up his incompetence and inefficiency as…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE DOTr/NLET partnership’s slip is showing. The duo’s efforts to promote NLET’s profit agenda obviously does not have a leg to stand on except the outdated provision in IATF’s Resolution 101 that called on bus companies to use “Integrated Terminal Exchanges” ostensibly as another health…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   At the rate the Lim administration in Dagupan City is running its affairs, it certainly appears to be on a spiraling self-destruction mode! Mayor Brian Lim’s continued blatant attempt at cover-up of widespread corruption by his barkada at the market victimizing fish vendors has made…