In the next few days, I will be quite busy helping fill up one big suitcase and a handcarry roller bag for Maricel, the lucky girl I wrote about in this column sometime in February this year. This lady who suddenly found herself unemployed before Christmas of last year, tried and failed to find the simplest of jobs… Read More »
This early, most anybody predicts that in the Metro Manila Film Festival 2012 this December, the movies of Vic Sotto and Kris Aquino will pit for number one spot at the tills. Last filmfest Vic’s Enteng Ka ng Ina Mo was the Top grosser, while Kris’ starrer Segunda Mano placed second. This time, Vic’s entry Si Agimat, Si… Read More »
Philippine giant network ABS-CBN through it’s the Filipino Channel (TFC) will join the downtown Toronto celebration of “Filipinos making Waves Festival“ (FMWF) at the famous Dundas-Yonge Square on August 18/2012. Now on its 6th year, organizers of the biggest free-to-the public event and festival showcasing the varied culture of Filipinos have signed an agreement with ABS-CBN officials recently… Read More »
I was in a restaurant two days ago; Next to our table was a young family, a couple with three children. The eldest child was about six, the second, maybe three and the youngest, a six month infant. It was a buffet and the mother left the table with the two older children to get food. The father… Read More »
The decision of the Philippine government to pledge $1 billion to the $456-billion standby fund being put up by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help distressed countries in Europe has raised questions from several sectors. Foremost of these questions is why lend $1 billion when the Philippines is drowning in debt? Another question that has been raised… Read More »
“The only problem is that a good man like a hard case makes a bad justice – a chief justice at that.” Now that the chief justice had been impeached, there has been a deluge of notable names being touted as the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The names of Gilbert Teodoro, Miriam… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty. Rogie . Through your column I wish to ask your assistance in matters of inheritance issues. My deceased father has four (4) siblings. His brother , who is actually my uncle Mike and single and without any child died few years ago, leaves an estate consisting of commercial apartments somewhere in Quezon City, Metro Manila.… Read More »
The loss of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao to Timothy Bradley would most likely become one of the most controversial fights in boxing history and could become the catalyst for reforms in the way fights are judged. These are the facts: The round-by-round Lederman Card showed Pacquiao winning, a total of 119 over Bradley’s 109. Lederman gave Round 10 to… Read More »
Q. My father had a property in Philippines and passed away many years ago without leaving a will. The property (house and lot) is still under his name. I am one of two surviving legitimate children (call us A and B). Before my father married my mother, my mother had four children with a previous marriage (she was… Read More »