Worrying about home – away from home….

The Philippines has been in the top news and will stay there for a while due to the recent natural calamity that has befallen this country. It is said that this storm was the strongest ever that had hit the face of the earth – stronger than Katrina which was a Signal No 4 with winds of 175… Read More »

IMMIGRATION MINISTER CHRIS ALEXANDER SAYS: Canada to Accept Record Number of Caregivers for Permanent Residency in 2014

TORONTO – A record number of live-in caregivers will be admitted as permanent residents of Canada in 2014, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander Tuesday. The number – at 17,500 – represents the highest number of admissions through the Live-in Caregiver Program in a single year since the program started in 1993, he said in a press statement.… Read More »

CHAOS COURTS PROPHETS OF DOOM IN PH

CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – The Philippine senators should not feel bad if Janet Napoles would like to keep her mouth shut if and when she finally shows up before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Even if the reigning Queen of Pork Barrel would be accused of cover-up, opening her wide mouth should not compel her either to give up… Read More »

DEREK BEATS COCO AS BIGGER TAX PAYER

Did you know that in the current list of BIR as top tax payers among movie celebrities, Derek Ramsay beat Coco Martin? Derek placed 12th with P16.7 M while Coco was 13th with P15.6 M. On the top ten were Willie Revillame (P63.9 M), Kris Aquino (P44.933 M), John Lloyd Cruz (P42.791 M), Sharon Cuneta (P42.04 M). Followed… Read More »

Orr gets 18 months for trafficking Filipina caregiver

By Ted Alcuitas Senior Editor Philippine Asian News Today Leticia Sarmiento faces reporters after sentencing of her former employer. (Photo: Stuart Lyster) Vancouver – “Masaya na rin ako kahit isa’t kalahating taon lang. At least, may hustisya pa rin.” (I’m happy even if it’s only 1-1/2 years, at least there’s justice), Leticia Sarmiento reacted to the 18-month sentence… Read More »

Impeachment may do us good

Somebody should call the dare of President Aquino to impeach him. Although it is close to impossible that his partners in crime in Congress would vote to impeach, much less convict him, filing an impeachment complaint would at least put on record that there was an attempt to remove him. At the same time, people would know how… Read More »

WHEN DONATIONS END AT THE POCKETS OF THIRD-PARTY DONORS

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — Harry S Truman, 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972) CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – If fence-setters are frustrated in wondering where the donations for earthquake, typhoon and disasters end up, think of those overseas Filipinos and other foreign donors how helpless and… Read More »

Are we all corrupt?

MANILA The mind-boggling revelations about wholesale theft of the Filipino people’s money through scams have given us all a clearer picture of how extensive the plunder has been. And the thought that the alleged Napoles scams are just the tip of the iceberg, that there are still other operations at work in stealing public money, makes it simply… Read More »

MILA A. GARCIA Rumormonger Par Excellence or Piddling Reporter?

~ An eighty-six-year-old grandmother was visiting from Manila to tell her horrific experience at the hands of Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. At the small reception and program set for her in Toronto, she tried to shed some light on what thousands of women in several countries in Asia had undergone as sex slaves. The forum… Read More »