Category Archives: Editorial

Let’s Go GO!

        Bet ‘ya! It is summer, isn’t it?         While an overhead cloud or an occasional drizzle is cool, we still cherish the ideal bright sunny day that begins before the rooster crows and extends way past a health buff’s bedtime.         In between the alpha and the omega, how about setting aside – for a while – great memories of… Read More »

Off to the Park

By the time this June 16-31, 2019 issue of your favorite Balita hits the streets, Jurassic Park has closed.        The wining and whining will have long ended. Toronto’s downtown core is back to its usual self.        However, the city does not forget summer, which will usher in itself in a few days. Toronto is a city of more… Read More »

Big Time Survivors

From up high, Dr. James Naismith would surely be smiling and be so proud to witness how far basketball has evolved in his native land. Born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada on November 6, 1861, Naismith invented basketball in 1891, a year after moving from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec to the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts,… Read More »

Smile Naman Diyan

       Inahen: Tandang, salamat sa korona. Reyna ang peg ko nitong Mother’s Day.        Tandang: Sino’ng gumupit ng palong ko???!!!! *****        ‘Ika nga, huli man din daw at magaling, late pa rin. It does not change any circumstance, but although this comes really late, allow me to greet the Mothers in the universe a “Blessed and Happy Mother’s Day.”        The… Read More »

Playing with fire

It was not a U-turn, after all, but obviously just a signal to the Chinese that we can go the other way if the situation warrants. In the past two weeks, Filipinos were left wondering why after more than two years of appeasing China on the territorial dispute over a few islets and reefs on the South China… Read More »

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       When politics rears its ugly head, a gullible voter gets the tail end of a bad deal.        Did you hear about Juan who died, went to the great beyond and signed in before haloed and white-robed Pete The Rock and red hot abs-baring Mephisto? Just to be clear: There would be no wrestling match and The Undertaker had… Read More »

A U-turn in the South China Sea?

In the last few days, we have witnessed a seeming turnaround in the Philippine government’s posture towards China’s claims in the South China. After a frustrating policy of acquiescence and appeasement towards China’s aggression in the disputed waters we call West Philippine Sea, President Duterte and key government officials are finally talking sense and defending the country’s territorial… Read More »

Impunity in the South China Sea

With the government either defending, justifying or simply doing nothing about China’s aggressive actions, the country’s giant neighbor has become even bolder to pursue its “creeping invasion” of the disputed territories in the South China Sea. After occupying, reclaiming and building virtual military bases with airstrips, radar equipment and other installations on several disputed islands in the last… Read More »

China doesn’t need spokesmen

It’s funny how China has remained silent over a complaint filed by former Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales against Chinese President Xi Jin-ping for “crimes against humanity” for alleged harassment of Filipino fishermen in the West Philippine Sea, and how President Duterte and other Philippine officials are tripping over themselves to defend… Read More »

China doesn’t need spokesmen

ON DISTANT SHORE It’s funny how China has remained silent over a complaint filed by former Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales against Chinese President Xi Jin-ping for “crimes against humanity” for alleged harassment of Filipino fishermen in the West Philippine Sea, and how President Duterte and other Philippine officials are tripping over… Read More »