MANILA He came, he saw, he spoke about wang-wangs. That was President Benigno Aquino III at the Philippine Congress delivering his State of the Nation (SONA) address last Monday, July 25. At 4:04 PM he strode to the congressional rostrum and expanded on the wang-wang theme of his first SONA speech last year where he declared: “Wala ng… Read More »
One of the warmly applauded points in P-Noy’s State of the Nation Address a week ago was the announcement of a new Philippine Ombudsman in the person of former Supreme Court Associate Justice Conchita Carpio- Morales. Despite some objections: Ex- Pres Arroyo who allegedly says she never voted in her favor in cases where the former Chief Executive… Read More »
“Hello, Garci.” Never have two words awakened a nation as profoundly as those uttered by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the height of the tabulation of votes to then Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. Days after the Garci tapes revealing the conspiracy between a supposed president and a ranking election official were played before a shocked nation, street… Read More »
Former Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan, the accused mass murderer of “Maguindanao Massacre” infamy almost convinced President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III into considering him as state witness in the multiple murder case against his father Andal Ampatuan Sr., his brother Andal Ampatuan Jr., and himself. P-Noy seemed to entertain the notion after he heard Zaldy’s “confession” during an interview with… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – A Filipino American, who owns two suburban home health care outfits, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly swindling Medicare of at least $20 million over five years in one of the state’s largest recipients of Medicare payments, according to a press release sent to this reporter by Randall Samborn, spokesman of… Read More »
The July Ist celebrations of Canada Day were shared by the more than one hundred cultures that make up this nation. In town centers and parks people of all colours, sexes, religions, ages, political orientations and varied languages gathered together for flag-raising of the Maple Leaf and of singing O’Canada. In Markham, the annual luncheon on July Ist… Read More »
The survival of men depends on how they will communicate with one another in any given time and moment in this life here on earth. It will tell the difference between losing the battle for survival and making the domination of earth to continue. AVV711 Communication is a tool every creature on planet earth uses for survival. Men… Read More »
And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.—Thomas Jefferson, January 1787 CHICAGO (jGLi) – Philippine President Noynoy Aquino should be thick-skinned when it comes to criticisms that have no basis. Such criticisms will not make him vulnerable but… Read More »
If it weren’t real, one would have thought it came from a reel, a scene straight from a movie of the Walking Tall genre, where a local sheriff blasted villains and their cars with his bat. Except that this time, it was a lone sheriff who was being beaten, not with a bat by a bulky man, but… Read More »
Once known as the “Murder Capital” of the Philippines, Davao City once again topped the headlines when Mayor Sara Duterte – surrounded by armed police bodyguards — beat a sheriff while hundreds of horrified people watched. Duterte was caught on video camera punching sheriff Abe Andres – an officer of the court – several times while he was… Read More »