By Ermin Garcia Jr.   RESIDENTS of Dagupan City must take the impact of Typhoon ‘Enteng’ both as a blessing and a warning. What could have been another usual knee-high flooding in the city’s commercial district restricting movements of residents at the height of the typhoon, the major roads that…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE news that former Health Secretary Pincoy Duque will face graft charges for “illegally” transferring funds during the Covid-19 pandemic is another desperate move to discredit the Duterte administration without filing a case against PRRD. Same strategy is being pursued against Harry Roque, Sen. Bato…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   HERE’S another hard and humiliating experience for the arrogant 7 epaLifes. All the ordinances that Councilors Redford Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez, Celia Chua-Lim, Alvin Coquia, Librada Reyna-Macalanda, Marilou Fernandez and Irene Lim-Acosta had to be vetoed by Mayor Belen mainly for their gross ignorance of the…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE obstructionist majority bloc members in the Dagupan city council can kiss their stars and their submissive colleagues in the minority. There is a ban on the suspension of elected public officials one year before the election and campaign period! This means, Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia,…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE unprecedented frequency of plagiarism committed by the 7 epaLiFes that tarnished the integrity of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod as an institution, is reaching a revolting and nauseating stage that one wonders if the words integrity, honor, and accountability still mean anything to the 12…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE 7 epaLiFes are getting away with a series of plagiarism, a criminal activity in the country’s penal code committed at a rate never seen in the country’s history of legislature. If Minority Leader Michael Fernandez is to be believed, the latest (See headline story)…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.    I USED to think that only the lazy, irresponsible writers and journalists can be guilty of the crime of plagiarism. (Of course, it’s rampant among lazy students especially with the onset of technology and those discovered were promptly failed). I was perhaps naïve to believe…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   DAGUPAN’s notorious 7epaLiFes at the Sangguning Panlungsod must be gloating over their successful efforts in embarrassing the Belen Fernandez administration for remaining in the cellar with the least creditable performance in public service among the cities in the region. Of course, the 7epaLiFes, dumb as…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE brouhaha in social media last week about the fake news labeling Atty. Harry Roque as lobbyist for illegal POGOs was just the tip of the iceberg. It was fake because not even the source of the alleged claim, Pagcor chief Alfredo Tengco, was not…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.    THE 7 epaLiFes’ arrogance must have totally taken over every cell in their brains for them to believe that they have pushed Mayor Belen Fernandez back to the wall and far enough that she won’t have no other choice but to meet them on their…