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 »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – When Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal moved on Aug. 4th, 1964 the celebration of Philippine Independence Day from July 4th, 1946 to June 12, 1898, Filipinos in the Philippines did not mind because their celebration was always overshadowed by America’s celebration of its own Independence. But Macapagal’s moving the date of the Philippine Independence is like… Read More »
Feisty Davao city mayor Sarah Duterte wields a haymaker (a powerful and mean punch) while Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Winning journalist (which makes him a news writer and of late a newsmaker). Duterte whacked a city sheriff last July 2 with a four-punch hits to the head and face whose only sin was to follow a… Read More »
Orlando Quevedo, Juan de Dios Pueblos, and Romulo Valles share things in common. They are not plain men of the cloth only but are bishops of the Roman Catholic Church; they are honourable men and highly respected princes of the Church. Recently, the three, together with four other bishops, were top news sharing the headlines as Philippine media… Read More »
The government said recession is over. But it does not seem so. Unemployment is still up. All levels of government are deeply in debt. People dependent on food banks have increased. The price of gasoline keeps going up. Salaries have mostly remained stagnant and workers are worried about complaining. This is not a time when one can afford… Read More »
No sooner had Virginia Torres returned to her post than she started getting all the flak from critics as well as allies of President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III. As one of P-Noy’s “shooting buddies,” Torres has become the lightning rod for all the things that could go wrong in P-Noy’s administration. In an arrogant display of defiance on… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Filipino Americans are picketing the consular offices of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) across the United States at noon on July 8 to protest the PRC government’s scheduled oil-rig drilling activities in the Spratly Islands which the Philippines claims as its own. Meanwhile, the Washington Post, in an editorial, urged President Barack Obama to… Read More »
It’s a refreshed MetroManila one saw after more than a week of continuous rains brought about by typhoons Egay, Dodong and Falcon. I am talking about streets where litter have been swept away by rainwater, lawn plants seemed more robust and green, and air was more breathable. But these typhoons created havoc, too- Php54m worth of crops and… Read More »
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and his allies must have thought it was time to take the counter-offensive following another decline in President Benigno S. Aquino III’s approval rating. After keeping a low profile in the first year of Aquino’s tenure, Arroyo suddenly held a press conference to blast her successor for the latter’s alleged lack of leadership and allegedly… Read More »
In this photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, the 3,000-ton, helicopter-equipped Haixun-31 sets off from the Gaolan port in Zhuhai, south China’s Guangdong Province. XINHUA The dispute over the Spratlys islands in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea/East Sea reached fever pitch last week with four of the six claimants engaging in a show of force in… Read More »