Dagupan, the incompetent LGU? By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE habitual muzzling of the Dagupan sanggunian by the office of the mayor in order to hide its dubious agenda and the embarrassing continued obeisance of the city council to the mayor’s dictate is becoming a national embarrassment. In spite of earlier…

Mayor Lim lies again By Ermin Garcia Jr. I LISTENED to the interview granted by Mayor Benjie Lim in connection with the worsening garbage problem in the city, and as I had expected he continued to downplay the failure of his administration to resolve the issues, including the ghost of…

I accuse Mayor Lim By Ermin Garcia Jr. I WISH to thank Mr. Francisco J. Mejia for taking to time to write and mail a letter to me to express his thoughts on the worsening state of corruption at the Dagupan City hall. He wrote,  “I was wrong with the…

The onor-onors vs. 3 musketeers By Ermin Garcia Jr. THERE’S a nasty rumor being spread allegedly by the nine onor-onors in the Dagupan sanggunian and their allies in city hall, a vain effort to redeem whatever is left of their honor and integrity. The line being peddled is they are…

Game of deception By Ermin Garcia Jr. LAST week, Mayor Benjie Lim went on air refuting our allegations of irregularities that attended the resolution granting him blanket authority to negotiate the sale of the Mc Adore property and a Calasiao land without terms of reference and guidelines with nothing but…

Remembering the Awai deal By Ermin Garcia Jr. NOW that Dagupan Mayor Benjie Lim has broken his silence (through his press release) over that infamous day when the city’s new batch of onor-onors took their “30 pieces of silver” and ran to hide, I am convinced more than ever that…

The new onor-onors “30 pieces of silver” By Ermin Garcia Jr. BEFORE I get to the tale of the mother of all corruption circa 2012, I wish to share an urgent email message from Los Angeles-based Dagupeño Rex Catubig about a crisis that has hit home. As the Catubig family…

ASNA for journalism By Ermin Garcia Jr. I AM personally humbled to be named one of this year’s ASNA awardees but equally elated for the recognition by the provincial government of the role that a community journalist plays in the shaping of the Pangasinan’s generation of people, their economy, history…

Junk the crime index reports By Ermin Garcia Jr. TWO months ago, the province was again fed by the provincial and city/town police chiefs with their respective self-serving and illusory crime indices. Every police chief in the province, led by then Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Rosueto Ricaforte, crowed about improved…

Fund-raising for 2013 By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE fund raising for the 2013 election has started. Watch Dagupan Mayor Benjie Lim. He already awarded the bid for the construction of the initial phase of the ridiculous Tsunami Hill for P4 million even without an approval from the sanggunian, in clear…