Category Archives: Editorial

A Grave time almost forgot

It was sheer joy to meet old friends and relatives.  They all say how good I looked and how I never aged at all.  I foresaw all these and of course I was prepared.  I have gifts for everyone, small momentous for remember me by.   After the usual round of meeting friends and relatives, and old friends… Read More »

Are you having Panic Attacks?

When I was working in Connecticut, I saw a woman in her 20s (let’s call her Nena) who was brought to the hospital emergency room for medical assessment. Apparently, Nena was shopping in the mall. Without any warning, she suddenly felt terrified and developed shortness of breath, fast heart rate, hot flushes all over her body, and chest… Read More »

Escudero’s dilemma

              I had expected Sen. Francis Escudero to withdraw his candidacy during a press conference he had scheduled last week at the Club Filipino in Greenhills. This was based on earlier reports that his patron at the Nationalist People’s Coalition, businessman Danding Cojuangco, had decided to patch up differences with his estranged cousin, Peping Cojuangco, to support… Read More »

A victory for inequality

While America was upholding the result of decades of battle for civil rights by electing an African American to the presidency, tens of thousands of Californians were institutionalizing inequality, injustice and bigotry by passing Proposition 8, which sought to ban gay marriages in California. They wanted to include in the state constitution a provision that would deprive a… Read More »

ALL SAINT’S DAY MEMORIES

If there were one subject barrio people loathed in discussing, it would be about the dead.  Call it part of religion and folkways so that when someone would pass away, the concern was how to inter the body, which should not be beyond three days.        In the barrio, the family of the dead had two choices for the… Read More »

Dawn of a New Era

At 11:00 PM Eastern Time on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama made history when he was elected President of the United States, a feat that no African-American has achieved before. After enduring a negative campaign by his opponent, Obama convinced the American people that he is the man whom they can trust in changing the way the government… Read More »

Filipinos in the Canadian Multicultural Mosaic

Were you there? Were you at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts during the presentation of “A Taste of Broadway, the Classics” on Saturday, October 10, 2009? If you were there, then you will probably join me in saying that it was a terrific success. The Markham Federation of Filipino Canadians deserved the entire accolade it… Read More »

ELECTION REFORMS SHOULD TURN RP AROUND

CHICAGO, Illinois (JGLi) – Unfortunately, Filipinos look up to politics as their final destination — the Holy Grail – before they ride into the sunset. They don’t realize that the career, where they excelled at, is already their last frontier, the be-all and end-all. I don’t see Michael Jordan, Pele or Muhammad Ali running for office. But Manny… Read More »

“CONSUELO DE BOBO”

In ignoring or bypassing recommendations and proposed changes to the Live-in Caregiver program (among them the Juana Tejada Law), Immigration Minister Jason Kenney tried to explain the his government’s position by saying the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) “is developing options for other improvements to the Live-In Caregiver Program (LCP)’ He further stated “ the implications of the… Read More »