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Posted on February 6, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
P1.791M for one hospital bed By Ermin Garcia Jr. NO purpose, rhyme or reason can ever justify the proposed P43 million budget for the planned 24-bed maternal hospital by the Lim administration. It certainly doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that to provide hospital beds at the cost of P1,791,666.67 each makes it a [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
Is the mayor protecting the syndicate? By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN City Mayor Benjie Lim and his administrator Vlad Mata can cry a river disclaiming any knowledge or participation in the sale of public land and issuance of waivers to businessmen along the beachfront along Bonuan Binloc but their continued refusal to act [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
Legal quagmire By Ermin Garcia Jr. HERE we go again… and again! It appears Dagupan Mayor Benjie Lim is keen on doing a rerun of the process that accompanied the passage of the city’s 2011 budget. The 2012 budget, like last year, will again hang in the balance at the expense of the city hall [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
There is no one else By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE are just entering two weeks of the new year and already, the hired guns riding in tandem already claimed their first victim. It doesn’t seem like the provincial government is alarmed by it all. The provincial board has not even made the provincial PNP [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
A report card on Pangasinan By Ermin Garcia Jr. FROM a range of 1-10 (10 being the highest), my assessment of the Espino administration’s performance in 2011 is it performed creditably well with an 8. Here are some of the good things we had last year worth remembering. Topping the list of “well-done” accomplishments [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2012 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
Looking back By Ermin Garcia Jr. FROM where The PUNCH sits, there never was a dull moment in covering the news that matter in and around the province from day 1 of 2011. Ever mindful of how local public officials comport themselves in office, how affairs of governance are promoted or prostituted, how Pangasinenses [...]
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Posted on December 26, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
Geohazards? By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT is Christmas and celebrate our Lord Jesus’ birthday, we must. But the tragedy in Northern Mindanao is much too grave to ignore, so tragic that we cannot but feel the somber mood in faraway Mindanao. Somehow, I can sense that the Christians in that region are in despair [...]
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Posted on December 19, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
A lesson for the “Mighty 8” By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE die is cast for Lyceum Northwestern University. It will not be cowed into submission by city hall. It’s top honcho, the irrepressible Gonz Duque, he who dares to play with fire regularly with gusto, has sent the message loud and clear that he [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
When a son protests too much By Ermin Garcia Jr. DON’T look now but at the rate Dagupan Councilor Brian Lim is adamantly opposing the sanggunian’s move to continue the investigation of the “fake” waiver scandal, the investigation will likely lead to damning, incriminating evidence at the doorsteps of the city mayor, his father’s [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2011 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Comments Off
Please believe him! By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE waivers are fake! It’s true. I say this because I have no reason to doubt City Administrator Vlad Mata’s claim. Indeed, the alleged waivers issued for the ritzy squatters illegally occupying premium beachfront areas in Bonuan Binloc must be bogus, because he said so.
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