What’s “Very Pinoy”? By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. Yucky. Gross. Timely. Funny. These were generally the reactions to our last week’s column on the three notorious “freedoms” enjoyed in the streets – “the freedoms of spit, singa and CR”. While many thought the item was not a material fitting for…
Curbing “freedoms” in the streets By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. There are two news items in this issue that bear watching, particularly, on how our local government units will respond. The first is the series of road accidents that proved fatal to bystanders, pedestrians and motorists. While no statistics are…
Begging their forgiveness By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. This Christmas will be my 59th celebration. I think it’s time I do something I’ve been meaning to do as a true Christian every Christmas, but never got around to it. I’d like to address all the elected and appointed public officials…
Reclaiming Tondaligan Park for the people By Ermin Garcia Jr. Now that Dagupan Mayor Al Fernandez is back in the driver’s seat, and is now likely keen on shaping a legacy that Dagupenos will long remember, I certainly hope he will consider the restoration of the natural beauty of Tondaligan…
The fighting ‘Usec’ By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. Two Saturdays ago, while monitoring news events via radio as I drove through the streets of Makati, I chanced upon a radio public affairs program on ABS-CBN’s DZMM discussing the unabated smuggling in the country. Listening to it for a few minutes,…
The political vultures flying over Batasan By Ermin Garcia Jr. The writing on the wall is there for Speaker Joe de V to see. Without a doubt in anyone’s mind, the Speaker will have to contend with President Arroyo’s wrath from hereon till she gets her pound of flesh awash…
Who will stop the kidnappers? By Ermin Garcia Jr. The recent kidnapping of two young girls in broad daylight by a still unidentified kidnap-for-ransom gang does not speak well of the capabilities and leadership of both the provincial government, the provincial police, the local NBI. Or I should say the…
JDV’s resignation will start the revolution By Ermin Garcia Jr. President Arroyo had apologized for what she said was her inappropriate telephone conversation with a Comelec official in 2004 but not many believed she was contrite, much less believed that she and her husband didn’t cheat FPJ of the presidency….
‘Palusot’ By Ermin Garcia Jr. That’s the only way I can describe the appeal of the Pangasinan Mayors League, led by Binalonan Mayor Ramon Guico Jr., to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to suspend sanctions against them for failing to comply with the Solid Waste Management Law or…
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