President Benigno “P-Noy”Aquino III’s administration has been touting the government’s success in fighting corruption. However, the numbers aren’t there. Except for the small fries, a big fish has yet to be caught in P-Noy’s much heralded anti-corruption campaign, which was the linchpin of his crusade to eradicate poverty. Indeed, his campaign slogan of “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap”… Read More »
The credibility of President Aquino’s campaign to curb corruption came into serious doubt last week with the continued delay of the passage of the Freedom of Information bill in the House of Representatives. The inaction of the House committee on public information, headed ironically by a former news reporter, Rep. Ben Evardonne of Eastern Samar, exposed a serious… Read More »
People never learn. They’re so willing to defy common sense in the hopes of making a quick buck. The latest calamity to hit many Filipinos is a pyramid scheme that has cost them billions of pesos. In Pagadian City in southern Philippines, a Ponzi-style scam has hit all kinds of people. Ordinary market vendors, tricycle drivers, teachers, government… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) — Some politicians may easily give up after losing in just one try. Not in the case of Filipino American optometrist Jennifer Ong, who lost by 2,278 votes to Bill Quirk for the 20th assembly seat of the California Assembly. Dr. Ong got 44,016 votes against Quirk’s 46,294. “My campaign team’s ability to overcome running against… Read More »
Proposals to bring back the death penalty in the Philippines were revived last week following the gruesome killing of UST honor graduate Cyrish Magalang in Cavite. Magalang was stabbed 49 times. In California, it is the other way around. Proposition 34, which was one of several people’s initiatives up for approval or rejection by voters last Tuesday, sought… Read More »
If you can make more people believe you than those who do not believe, you can still be elected as president of the most powerful country in the world: the United States of America. That is how democracy works – the majority wins. Never mind, how small or large is the majority-This time it was 50% to 49%.… Read More »
It is usual for Filipinos to jump with glee whenever someone Filipino, even with just a tiny drop of brown blood running in his veins, achieves a feat. In the recent elections in the US of A, news reports say thirteen Filipino-Americans won the seats they vied for, some in the national level others in their own States.… Read More »
Seems that your Canadian Prime Minister’s short visit to the Philippines was fruitful. PM Stephen Harper and his lean team planed in to the Philippines a week ago (Nov. 9). He is only the 2nd Canadian head of state to have come to the country. Our first Canadian PM visitor came in 1997 when then PM Jean Chretien… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – It was already 7 p.m. Central Time in Chicago, Illinois Tuesday Election Night (Nov. 6) and even television and Internet sources are already projecting Mr. Obama ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, yet the Obama campaign was still urging volunteers to make phone calls to voters in swing states. This is one of the… Read More »
MANILA The principal architect and administrator of Ferdinand Marcos’s martial rule in the Philippines is out to revise history. And he might succeed in doing so. Juan Ponce Enrile, currently the Senate President here, has just written his memoirs. In it, reports say, he washes his hands of all liability for the evils that martial rule wrought on… Read More »