Category Archives: Editorial

HOSPICIO DE SAN JOSE IN MANILA APPEALS TO YOUR BIG HEARTS

By Rudy M. Viernes Novato, California        The Hospicio de San Jose in Manila is a Catholic charitable institution, managed since 1865 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.   It is the foster home of orphans, children and adolescents abandoned or surrendered by their parents due to poverty.  Some of these children have special needs.  There… Read More »

Gambling Addiction: Six Facts We Need to Know

Problem gambling, a form of impulse control disorder, has caused intense misery among individuals and families. The problem is so complicated and deep-seated that it has become a societal menace, not just an ordinary medical disorder.   Some gambling, such as bingo, stock market speculation, and betting on games, can be considered as “subtle.” But some ways to… Read More »

SI GOVERNOR AT SI MAYOR

AYON sa hindi pa katagalang kasaysayan, ang dynasty na kasalukuyang naghahari sa Isla de Oriente ay napunla ng may isang dayuhang negosyante, si Mr. Sah Kim na nakita ang mga yaman ng isla: ang mga kagubatan na sagana sa mga malalaki at mayayabong na matitigas na mga kahoy at mga bundok na sagana sa mga mina. Nadagdag pa… Read More »

Inspired and Itinerant Ideologue

Marcelo Martin was a small frame man with squarest jaw, bristly hair, bog forehead, bushy hair and of average height.  His constant work under the sun tanned his skin is like a leather.  He had large uneven stained teeth due to smoking.  Shortly before the outbreak of the Pacific war and during the Occupation, Marcing, as he was… Read More »

The Merry month of May

By: Rudy Viernes   May is the merriest and most colorful month of the year in the Philippines. It is a month of fiestas, processions, Flores de Mayo, Santacruzan, Virgin Mary…and mangoes, too! In most little towns and villages the annual fiesta is an anticipated event held in May.  Most part of the year the barrio perks up… Read More »

HOSPICIO DE SAN JOSE IN MANILA APPEALS TO YOUR BIG HEARTS

By Rudy M. Viernes Novato, California        The Hospicio de San Jose in Manila is a Catholic charitable institution, managed since 1865 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.   It is the foster home of orphans, children and adolescents abandoned or surrendered by their parents due to poverty.  Some of these children have special needs.  There… Read More »

The three S’s of good leadership

On May 10, the Filipino people will troop to the polls to elect the man who would succeed Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and who would be tasked with straightening up the mess that his predecessor had put the country into. Tough challenges await the winner, perhaps as tough, if not tougher than what the late President Cory Aquino had… Read More »

The Agra ruling: Deeper than alibis

Although we had expected a whitewash of the cases against the Ampatuans of Maguindanao because of the family’s close “friendship” to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the decision of Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra to drop murder charges against ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan and his cousin Akmad Ampatuan  — even before the court could hear all testimonies and receive all… Read More »

Desperate situation, desperate measure

Sen. Manny Villar and his party mates at the Nacionalista Party must be very desperate. Indeed, with less than a month to go before the elections, desperation would understandably set in when you still trail by double digit percentage points in surveys after spending millions of pesos peddling lies in full page advertisements and radio-TV commercials.                  … Read More »