It’s bad enough when two colorful senators throw insults at one another but when it leads to an international crisis – involving the president no less – it gets ugly… very, very ugly. Yes, no less than the indomitable Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is involved in the “word war” at one end. At the other end is… Read More »
HELLO, TORONTO! While many bosses of households throughout the country have expressed non belief that this thing could have happened for such length of time without the victim doing something about it (escape from the house or retaliate), many more have condemned the spouses Marzan (Reynold and Analiza ) of Quezon City for the maltreatment they have subjected… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – How do you feel if a teacher gives you an assignment while you are in a time-out room? You might grudgingly agree. After all, the teacher will not really be able to find out if you are doing your “roomwork” or not. Your only problem: the teacher had installed a monitoring camera that would record… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Fifteen Filipinos, who became victims of labor trafficking to Florida, are going to appear before the Eastern District court of New York at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York on Monday, Sept. 24, according to a press release from the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), U.S. Northeast in New York. NAFCON urged its… Read More »
Everybody waits for the miracle. But the truth is all of us are a symbol of miracle for others. The right moment and opportunity will come although some may act properly while others may not. AVV912 There are a lot of people who ask for a miracle and wasted all their precious time on… Read More »
Did you come across that comic strip in the Saturday Star just last week? Two characters were conversing. One was surprised to see the other. “I thought you were in Boston to visit you parents,” one of them remarked. The other narrated what happened to him.” “I went to the airport for my flight to Boston,” he began.… Read More »
The brouhaha over an alleged attempt by DILG Undersecretary Rico E. Puno to enter the condominium unit of the late DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo on the very first day the latter went missing after a plane crash couldn’t have come at a worse time for Puno’s shooting buddy and benefactor President Noynoy Aquino. Aquino didn’t even have… Read More »
The appointment of two Liberal Party stalwarts to highly sensitive Cabinet posts signals the start of a three-year long campaign of President Aquino’s party to hold on to Malacanang for six more years after Aquino’s term expires in 2016. Last week, Aquino named LP president Mar Roxas, his running mate in the 2010 elections, as head of… Read More »
Well, folks, the 2016 presidential race is on! And as we get closer to Election Day –that’s four short years away – the battle would intensify and get really nasty… I mean, very nasty! Indeed, no sooner had Mar Roxas been sworn in as the new Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) than… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Attorney Hector Villacorta apologized to American Sarah Pope for not attributing to her blog (combination of the terms web and log) a portion of a speech he prepared for his boss, Sen. Vicente Sotto, III, but Mr. Sotto’s chief of staff’s apology left a bad taste in the mouth. The apology did not carry remorse… Read More »