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Meet Ermin Erfe Garcia

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   TO commemorate the 104th birthday of my late father, our founder editor-publisher, on April 25, and to allow PUNCH readers a chance to know a tidbit of his personal life, I’m reposting here an interview of him recorded by the late Fr. Arsenio Jesena, S.J….

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Meet Ermin Erfe Garcia

By April 29, 2025Punchline

Lim Mother-son-daughter politics

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   ON hearing and watching ex-mayor Brian Lim constantly blasting Belen Fernandez administration for its “failed” governance, many wonder why son Brian filed for the vice mayoralty post and not for the mayoralty post. Why was mother Celia made to file for the mayoralty post when…

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Lim Mother-son-daughter politics

By April 21, 2025Punchline

More lies and deception from LIFE team

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE LIFE team of the Lim mother-son in Dagupan City recently held a grand presscon for another set of lies and deception for public consumption apparently organized by ex-Mayor Brian Lim, who is vying for the vice-mayoralty post in Dagupan City. Curiously, it’s his mother,…

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More lies and deception from LIFE team

By April 14, 2025Punchline

Mayor Belen’s political will

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   DAGUPEÑOS should thank their stars that it was Mayor Belen Fernandez who won the 2022 elections over former Mayor Brian Lim, and not the other way around like when the latter dislodged the reelectionist Fernandez in 2019. After listening to and reading the endless rants…

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Mayor Belen’s political will

By April 7, 2025Punchline

Giving Sen. Imee a second look

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   A thought deemed most unlikely to happen, happened at the highest national political level last week. Sen. Imee Marcos, elder sister of PBBM, bolted her brother’s political party with an unprecedented twist. She decided to politically distance herself from her brother’s politics upon getting her…

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Giving Sen. Imee a second look

By April 1, 2025Punchline

‘Duterte’, a blockbuster movie

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE action-filled drama and suspense last week on the “kidnapping” of former President Rodrigo Duterte ‘will certainly create an opportunity for an independent filmmaker to produce a two-hour blockbuster documentary movie. It had all the ingredients – deception by Marcos Jr. about involvement of foreign…

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‘Duterte’, a blockbuster movie

By March 24, 2025Punchline

Brian Lim as vice mayor?

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   FORMER Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim, also a former vice mayor, filed his candidacy for vice mayor and as presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlungsod in this year’s local elections. Admittedly, I have no recollection of his performance as vice mayor and SP presiding officer of…

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Brian Lim as vice mayor?

By March 10, 2025Punchline

Obstructionism is still alive

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   AFTER failing to block the passage of Dagupan City’s 2025 annual budget and the supplemental budgets that went it, now comes the opposition’s ploy to stall action on any activities that will boost the Belen administration’s unliserbisyo. In fact, the life of obstructionism continues to…

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Obstructionism is still alive

By March 2, 2025Punchline