A third comfort room? By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE unusual and totally unexpected proposal of Board Members Danilo Uy and Alfie Bince to require establishments in Pangasinan to provide a special comfort room for gays is not exactly the kind of idea that can be considered as “out-of-the-box” worth…
Who’s minding the farmers? By Ermin Garcia Jr. HERE’S a thought for our congressmen and women to contemplate while they assess their future amid the brewing PDAF scandal. Ever since typhoons have averaged 20-25 visits to the country every year, the country has been suffering staggering losses in agriculture…
Who pocketed the P10-M? By Ermin Garcia Jr. ATTY. Ope Reyna, the hermano mayor of the 2013 Dagupan Fiesta has shown what transparency and accountability mean in real terms. The terminal report that his committee caused to be published in The PUNCH last week was detailed enough for everyone…
Time to call in the NBI By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT’S been two years since the suspected widespread land-grabbing of premium beachfronts in Dagupan City was reported in our pages, and nothing has been heard of it since the Lim administration said it launched an investigation of its own….
Finally, a demand for accountability By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE, at The PUNCH, feel vindicated by the 2013 extensive report submitted by Commission on Audit’s (COA) Auditor Virgilio Quinto . The series of suspected graft cases being committed with impunity during the Lim administration that we reported were confirmed…
Accuser becoming the accused? By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE full-court legal (psy-war?) offensive of the Cabangon Chua group against the Belen Fernandez administration in Dagupan has started, if the publicity that the group launched is to be believed. As it appears today, the cases allegedly filed against Mayor Belen…
Forget Guinness I HATE being a party-pooper but our communities’ acquired fixation over landing a line or two at Guinness World Records for the “longest…most…biggest, etc” title is getting out of hand. Sure, earning a Guinness title can mean something to the community but truthfully, it’s just a very small…
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