Decorp’s faux pas By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHY did Decorp do that to Mayor Belen Fernandez? This was the common sentiment in the streets on learning that Decorp refused to comply with the mayor’s simple request for the transfer of the electric meter of the city government at the…
Decorp vs. Mayor Belen By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Dagupan Electric Co. (Decorp) is proving itself to be one confused entity or worse, one easily intimidated in the face of a seeming assault to its integrity as a public utility service provider, inviting more legal problems like a hole…
The pols and J & D lords By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE recent decision of the Supreme Court (SC) declaring the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) as unconstitutional immediately impacts on three local governments’ concerns. First, is the most obvious one. The demise of the notorious “Development Fund” that…
Mayor Belen’s decent proposal By Ermin Garcia Jr. HERE’S a good (and not-so-good news) for AMB ALC Holdings and Management Inc. headed by businessman Antonio Cabangon Chua, the winner of the tainted public bidding of the MC Adore property conducted by the past Lim administration in Dagupan City! Mayor…
Our vulnerability By Ermin Garcia Jr. WATCHING the images of wanton destruction and chaos in the Visayan region has jolted many into realizing that, indeed, the worst can befall us any day, any moment. Stories about parents leaving behind corpses of some of their children on the streets in…
Dagupan’s Blue Ribbon Committee By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE first investigation of the Dagupan sanggunian’s Blue Ribbon Committee on our complaint about the sudden mushrooming of illegal fish pens prior to the last May elections finally set the tone for establishing transparency and accountability, not only of elected officials…
The planned massacre of The PUNCH By Ermin Garcia Jr. IN the land of warlords, journalists are disposed of randomly with bullets and are buried with the backhoe. The Maguindanao massacre proved that. In the land of the greedy privileged few, journalists who wave the press freedom flag and…
Lip service By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Dagupan sanggunian finally adopted the resolution of Councilor Joey Netu Tamayo seeking to create a special committee (Blue Ribbon) that will investigate complaints filed before the city council. Finally, the majority group got its act together to adopt the Netu resolution to…
There they go again By Ermin Garcia Jr. SHORTLY after Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez reported to the city her initial struggles, challenges and accomplishments as the city’s new mayor, the remaining ragtag loyalists of former Mayor Benjie Lim and his son Vice Mayor Brian suddenly went into an offensive last…
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