When Russia sent its troops to Ukraine’s Crimea province purportedly to protect the Russian-speaking population in the region, the action reignited the second Cold War between Russia and the United States that actually began more than five years ago but eased in the last couple of years with the seeming cooperation between the two countries in negotiations with… Read More »
The murder of Zamboanga Judge Reynerio Estacio Sr. of the Zamboanga Regional Trial Court last Friday by two motorcycle-riding men brought to focus once more the culture of impunity that has pervaded Philippine society for decades. The ambush also brought to fore the worsening peace and order condition in the country and the incompetence of the country’s law… Read More »
Young senator Alan Cayetano wants to run for president in 2016 or 2022. But former President Joseph Estrada doesn’t think he’s qualified. Look who’s talking? Is Estrada, popularly called “Erap,” a college dropout, former movie star and politician, qualified to pronounce judgment on other potential candidates for the highest office? The one and only Erap once hoisted the… Read More »
First, medical doctors became furious when the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s shame campaign hit the road with the first of a series of advertisements- the print ad, published in the Philippine Inquirer showed a doctor piggybacking on a teacher who presumably earns a lower salary than her but pays higher taxes to the BIR. To the rescue came… Read More »
With his family and well-known community leaders and friends around him to stress his political outlook, Filipino-Canadian lawyer Rafael Fabregas kicks off a grassroots campaign to win the nomination of the Liberal Party of Canada and hopefully become its standard bearer in the election for a seat in Parliament representing Scarborough Centre riding in the Greater Toronto Area.… Read More »
I planned to stay a year. Here I am on my forty-first year of living in the country, Canada. I left the Philippines on a one-year leave from my position at work. After the first year I wrote my place of work for another year of extension of my leave. After two years, I went back and personally… Read More »
I planned to stay a year. Here I am on my forty-first year of living in the country, Canada. I left the Philippines on a one-year leave from my position at work. After the first year I wrote my place of work for another year of extension of my leave. After two years, I went back and personally… Read More »
The Supreme Court has an uncanny way of commemorating the 28th anniversary of the People’s Power Revolution. On a day when the whole nation was celebrating the restoration of freedom in the country with the downfall of strongman Ferdinand Marcos following four days of massive protests on EDSA in February 1986, twelve justices of the Supreme Court opted… Read More »
Simple words but worth so much more because they are expressed with the whole heart of a nation that went through a very recent harrowing experience of devastation and very quickly received such grand and great show of support from many nations of the world. The visuals that graced these words of gratitude were ‘tourism’ photos- glossy, featuring… Read More »
MANILA Is the law catching up with the legislators who had allegedly skimmed off their PDAF allocations? Are these legislators quaking in their boots now? The so-called pork barrel scam here is the most scandalous case of theft of the people’s money in recent times. Supposedly a brainchild of “pork queen” Janet Lim Napoles, the scheme… Read More »