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 »
MANILA Believe it or not some Philippine communities in the areas ravaged by the monsoon rains in the first week of August are still flooded. And even when the water goes away, there will be a lot of cleaning up to do and picking up of the lives of the flood’s victims. In the aftermath of typhoon Ondoy… Read More »
The first major disaster happened on schedule as published in this newspaper early January of 2012. The lesson should be learned by now as two more disasters are coming and hopefully people will now listen and be more prepared. AVV812 A Southwest monsoon rain caused the Mega Manila and the wide areas of Luzon to be under water… Read More »
It was a bright, sunny but relaxingly cool August day, a perfect summer Saturday weekend in the heart of downtown Toronto. August 18- at 8:00am white tents suddenly begun sprouting in the Yonge-Dundas Square, now fast becoming as famous as its iconic counterpart New York’s Times Square. Suddenly, in a matter of hours, huge crowds came streaming down… Read More »