By Ermin Garcia Jr.   ON May 21, 1966, the country was agog. It was a day after Ermin Erfe Garcia, a community journalist in Dagupan City, was shot and killed in his Sunday Punch editorial office. It took then President Ferdinand E. Marcos to issue a “shoot-to-kill’ order against…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   LIKE many other pundits out there who’ve offered their points of view on how the 2025 midterm elections went, permit me to share my thoughts. It’s encouraging that there has been no claim of grand-scale cheating via our new automated counting machines so far. However,…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE endorsement of the whole Unliserbisyo team of Belen Fernandez-Bryan Kua by the Iglesia ni Cristo must have come as a big shock to the LIFE barkada and mother-son team of Celia and Brian Lim. It will be recalled that son Brian arrogantly warned of…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE epaLIFE team led by the Lim mother (Celia) – son (Brian) – daughter (Irene) seeking elective posts in Dagupan City is truly living up to its name as a barkada in this campaign. See its members strut their wares laced with their usual arrogance…

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….

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…