MANILA The real highlight of the Senate hearing on the pork barrel scam last Nov. 7 was not the appearance of alleged pork queen Janet Lim Napoles. That much-touted Senate debut was a non-event. As the Brits like to say, it was a damp squib, a dud of a firecracker. The real substance came when whistleblower Benhur Luy… Read More »
MANILA The first point to make is: don’t call them “Million People” marches against the sensational pork barrel scam here because the turnouts so far have been nowhere close to that number. Nobody is complaining about this discrepancy between the advertised turnout and the actual numbers because people are loath to be called spoilsports or killjoys and attract… Read More »
President Aquino must have really been piqued being called the “Pork Barrel King” because after critics gave him that title, he went on a series of speeches attacking his critics and defending again his misuse of both the congressional pork barrel, the Priority Development Assistance Fund, and his own pork funds, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). Aquino added… Read More »
The Philippines has been in the top news and will stay there for a while due to the recent natural calamity that has befallen this country. It is said that this storm was the strongest ever that had hit the face of the earth – stronger than Katrina which was a Signal No 4 with winds of 175… Read More »
TORONTO – A record number of live-in caregivers will be admitted as permanent residents of Canada in 2014, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander Tuesday. The number – at 17,500 – represents the highest number of admissions through the Live-in Caregiver Program in a single year since the program started in 1993, he said in a press statement.… Read More »
CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – The Philippine senators should not feel bad if Janet Napoles would like to keep her mouth shut if and when she finally shows up before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Even if the reigning Queen of Pork Barrel would be accused of cover-up, opening her wide mouth should not compel her either to give up… Read More »
Somebody should call the dare of President Aquino to impeach him. Although it is close to impossible that his partners in crime in Congress would vote to impeach, much less convict him, filing an impeachment complaint would at least put on record that there was an attempt to remove him. At the same time, people would know how… Read More »
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — Harry S Truman, 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972) CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – If fence-setters are frustrated in wondering where the donations for earthquake, typhoon and disasters end up, think of those overseas Filipinos and other foreign donors how helpless and… Read More »
MANILA The mind-boggling revelations about wholesale theft of the Filipino people’s money through scams have given us all a clearer picture of how extensive the plunder has been. And the thought that the alleged Napoles scams are just the tip of the iceberg, that there are still other operations at work in stealing public money, makes it simply… Read More »
~ An eighty-six-year-old grandmother was visiting from Manila to tell her horrific experience at the hands of Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. At the small reception and program set for her in Toronto, she tried to shed some light on what thousands of women in several countries in Asia had undergone as sex slaves. The forum… Read More »