Make way for the women By Ermin Garcia Jr. What a day of surprises the last day of filing of certificates of candidacy was! Topping the list was the surprise entry of an old friend Celia Chua-Lim, wife of former Dagupan City Mayor Benjie Lim in the 4th congressional race….

Accountability is the key By Ermin Garcia Jr. Thank God for the indefatigable and distinguished lawyers in our midst! Led by former CA Justice Ted Regino and Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, they have upped the ante for the safety and welfare of our kabaleyans against priorities of the San Roque…

“Politics is addition” adage corrupts By Ermin Garcia Jr. AFTER all the dizzying posturing in the past weeks by all political wannabes in the local front, the first wave of political dust will finally settle down. We will soon know who are in and who are out but in all…

Napocor is having the last laugh By Ermin Garcia Jr. JUST as I suspected (and expected!), Napocor, as operator of the San Roque Dam, is not even getting a slap on the wrist from both the provincial board and the Dagupan City Council for its responsibility in the October flood….

Binmaley can but Dagupan can’t By Ermin Garcia Jr. What’s the difference between the governments of Dagupan City and the town of Binmaley? In Dagupan, fish pen operators can thumb their noses at the mayor and his officials, ignoring the city’s ordinance and get away with it. In Binmaley, the…

Bangus Scandal 2009 By Ermin Garcia Jr. Typhoon Pepeng after all was not all about devastation of everything good. Its wrath was about a pointed message to the Dagupan City Hall – “I destroyed your friends’ illegal fish pens!” Indeed, Dagupan City Administrator Alvin Fernandez has some real explaining to…

Sue for command responsibility By Ermin Garcia Jr. I can’t blame the mayors in eastern Pangasinan for demanding the decommissioning of the San Roque Dam after the dam’s operators caused the massive destruction of their respective towns.  They’ve been hurt bad and they want to get even.

Napocor’s protocol is anti-Pangasinan By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHEN the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project was first proposed in the mid-90s to harness the power of the Agno River that traverses San Manuel and Natividad in the province, Pangasinan was promised wider and regular irrigation, effective flood control and a reliable…

Are we ready for tsunami? The havoc wrought by both tropical cyclone Ondoy and  Typhoon Pepeng was unprecedented and without a doubt, extremely traumatic for thousands of Pangasinenses.  All too sudden, we were made to realize how truly vulnerable we all are in the face of a force that man…

Another template for corruption By Ermin Garcia Jr. It is, indeed, very reassuring to see Guv Spines on the move to forestall a calamity in the province of Ondoy proportion. But I am personally dismayed that the first thing he could think of is to buy a brand new dredging…