When it rains it pours daw po. We hope it will stop here in the Philippines. We do not really mind the downpour that characterizes the country’s wet season. But we all pray that the downpour of revelations of scams and controversies stops at least for a while as we try to catch our breaths and find relief… Read More »
CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – The squabble between Senate President Frank Drilon and Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago is giving fits to overseas Filipinos, who are willing to join and vet for honest and qualified people to act as placeholders when a big number of Senators and Congressmen will start to take a difficult trek to jail when the Ombudsman elevates plunder… Read More »
Member, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) and Reporters Without Borders TORONTO – Seven out of 10 Filipinos 65 years and above live in poverty in Canada’s largest city and rely mainly on monthly government doleouts for their economic security, a study on Filipino seniors… Read More »
CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – Janet Napoles masterful ability to pull the rug from under the feet of unsuspecting Philippine senators and congressmen could be a game changer that could also remake a nation that will go into a soul searching on how a culture of gift giving has allowed Filipinos to accept starvation wages. If senators and congressmen are… Read More »
MANILA The current scandal here involving the serial theft of the people’s money allocated as pork barrel of members of the Congress confirms once and for all how deep corruption is in the Philippines. It’s been exposed in media that P10 billion in congressional pork barrel has been stolen through ghost projects and beneficiaries over a span of… Read More »
Isn’t it ironic that an administration that was propelled to power on a promise of honesty and transparency should now stagger under the weight of suspicions of corruption and dishonesty? And isn’t it a pity that the people who were hoping to be liberated from decades of despair by this administration should now again become hopeless about their… Read More »
No one should really be surprised if the recent burst of violence in Zamboanga City allegedly unleashed by the men of Nur Misuari’s MNLF is backed up by big politicians embroiled in the Napoles scam. Either it is staged as a distraction from the focus the media is giving to the probe on this despicable heinous perfidy of… Read More »
The middle class of our society, in Metromanila and other urban areas in the whole country exhibited its outrage not at the hefty sum milked from Philippine coffers but at the gall of those unscrupulous people, legislators and officials of government included, in the Million People’s March of 2 weeks ago that protested the recently exposed pork barrel… Read More »
A mother is a special creation by God on earth. All mothers are special but one stood different among the rest and on Her birthday we will give Her the glory of certain miracles. AVV913 Among those who can write and tell stories about mother, I know that I am one of the least experienced, if biological mother… Read More »
MANILA That’s the verdict of an international investment expert, that the Philippines “looks poised to resume a period of strong growth.” In a recently published book, “Breakout Nations,” Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, writes that the Philippines “is no longer a joke.” “[T]he new president, Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III, probably has just enough support, and looks… Read More »