It’s unprecedented in Philippine political history that in four months’ time a new president has become the object of serious criticism. Even the unwanted (by the intelligent class) Joseph “Erap” Estrada didn’t suffer such dislike in his time. In the presidential campaign of 1998, the masses were not only willing to vote for Estrada, they were quite eager… Read More »
They’ve been killing people here for the past three months. The sober-minded plead for a return to sanity while the shrill continue their defense of President Duterte. After an earlier collective silence from the public over all the summary killings, now comes a growing sentiment that the country may be going in the wrong direction. There’s a burgeoning… Read More »
Stripped of immunity and entitlements, former President Benigno S. Aquino III and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad Jr. have finally been criminally charged for their roles in the notorious Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which the Supreme Court had declared as unconstitutional and illegal in 2014. Ten militant groups charged Aquino and Abad with technical malversation of public funds,… Read More »
In the first few days of his presidency, President Duterte gained favorable response from the business community after his announcements that he would give emphasis to infrastructure development and making transactions easy for businessmen. With just a few hundreds killed in Duterte’s drug war, they were willing to look the other way. But as the death toll from… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – The Philippines along with Cuba and a group of Pacific Islands, including Puerto Rico and Guam, was bought by the United States at a discount for $20-M ($549-M in today’s currency) so that a bloody Spanish-American War would be averted in pursuit of America’s “Manifest Destiny” to spread freedom and democracy around the world. Instead… Read More »
Another Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, and again as we look back at the adversities we faced, we cannot but be thankful that, personally and for Balita, we have pulled through another year barely scratched, with body and soul still fully intact, and consequently , with the clarity of mind, still defending me and Balita against evils… Read More »
By Butch G. Galicia It’s Autumn. The mercury is dropping; the cold sneaking in. The days get shorter; the nights, longer. The leaf will soon change colours; reluctantly but obediently freeing itself from the branch, to glide with the wind until it finally rests in the embrace and solace of the soil. Year after year, the imagery repeats… Read More »
I’m pretty sure Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. has been having some sleepless nights since he assumed office in July. He has the unenviable position of having to explain and clarify most of President Duterte’s remarks involving foreign policy, specifically those pertaining to the Philippines’ longtime ally United States. And they’re not few. Yasay had to rush to… Read More »
I am on vacation and trying to get the most from it, to detach with work and everyday happenings in Toronto. Here, 1800 feet above, on top of Mt Robert in Juneau, Alaska. I feel closer to heaven. Time to thank him for all his blessing. One of our good friends from the Philippines, columnist of Malaya and… Read More »
Many Americans are up in arms again after two more apparently unarmed black men were shot down by policemen. Protests in Charlotte, North Carolina have turned violent and North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory had to declare a state of emergency after a protester was shot and a policeman was injured on the second night of protests. Earlier in… Read More »