‘Ika nga ng isang pasaway: Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, may stiff neck. No, no to stiff neck. Not now, not ever! Thus so, I will always look back to the fond and great memories I have of the place – Barangay Balumpare in Sampaloc, Manila — where I was born and was raised, up to my mid-teens.… Read More »
MANILA Who would have thought the B movie “The “Purge” could ever become a reality anywhere in the world? Actually, it’s what’s happening here in the Philippines. Life does imitate art. There was a movie (and a sequel) that depicts an annual night of cleansing society of “undesirables” by killing people in a span of one night. The… Read More »
FOR all its claims of a resolute war against drugs and corruption, the Duterte administration seems to be showing the opposite with two recent questionable legal moves – the dropping of charges against several prominent suspected drug lords and the decision to put alleged pork scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles under the Witness Protection Program with the end… Read More »
I have been following this very controversial bill in our Canada’s House of Common since last year, that will force employers to support abortion and transgenderism in order to get student summer job funding. Here’s the latest update on the Bill Canada’s House of Commons voted 207 to 93 on Monday March 19, 2018 to defeat a Conservative… Read More »
A new law took effect in Ontario last month. It is now an offence, punishable by punitive fines and prison, to “attempt to advise or persuade” someone to refrain from having an abortion, or to “attempt to inform a person concerning issues related to abortion services”, or to “attempt to perform an act of disapproval [of abortion]”… Read More »
Just six years after the Supreme Court was rocked by an inglorious impeachment trial that removed a sitting Chief Justice and by the contentious appointment of the court’s youngest member to replace him, the country’s high tribunal has again found itself saddled by controversy, division and disarray. As the people marked the start of the year 2012,… Read More »
Here is a notation on ‘pasaway’ I saw, copied and paraphrased from the Internet; thus, all credits belong to the anonymous source. Originally, the notation said, ‘pasaway’ is not a Tagalog word. It is a word in Ilongo — one of some 170 regional languages heard in the Philippine archipelago — principally spoken in parts of… Read More »
MANILA It was only a matter of time before President Rodrigo Duterte’s pugnacious ways and dictatorial bent would eventually make him a global pariah. And now word comes from Daniel Coats, head of US Intelligence, that Duterte is a “threat to democracy in Southeast Asia.” So, are Messrs. Trump and Duterte still friends? From the start of… Read More »
I remember the first time I saw you. You were on the cover of Sports Illustrated in your junior year. Not college. High school. The first high school underclassman ever to grace SI’s cover. I remember the first time I saw you play. It was Dec. 12, 2002, and it was a highly anticipated matchup pitting your… Read More »
While President Duterte’s decision to immediately repatriate abused overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kuwait and to ban further deployment of workers to the Middle East country was at first look commendable, it still leaves questions that previous administrations have also largely ignored. The President made the twin moves following the discovery of the body of 29-year-old… Read More »