MANILA The hottest news here is the expose of a spider’s web of scams allocating congressmen’s pork barrel funds for “ghost” projects, with the actual money going into the private pockets of fraudsters. As the name implies, ghost projects are non-existent, they only appear on paper but not on the ground. The problem is that the public don’t… Read More »
The series of articles published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on the pork barrel scam that has defrauded the Philippine government of an estimated P10 billion gave unassailable proof that the pork barrel program is one of the major sources of graft and corruption in government. They also exposed the loose implementation of funding processes in both the… Read More »
One thing stood out in President Aquino’s State-of-the-Nation Address on Monday. For the first time in four SONAs, Aquino did not blame the previous administration for the country’s current state of affairs. Finally, the President has decided to face the state of the nation sans his usual blame game. After three years in office, it just makes no… Read More »
President Noynoy Aquino delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address in the joint session of Congress on July 23. The people listened; many approved, some did not. But that’s the state of the nation. The President’s SONA lasted for almost two hours, including interruptions coming from his frequent coughing. I watched the pained looks on the faces… Read More »
Poor pigs- their end product, the pork is eternally maligned. Not by me and most lechon lovers of our country, though. Ang katakam- takam nitong linamnam will be one of my most lasting and happy memories of life in this earth. Lately, ayan na naman at minemenos- menos, inaapi- api ang pork when the controversy about misspent/ unspent… Read More »
“Challenges will always be there. But looked up to them not only as stumbling block but a stepping stone toward success.” –Bohol Gov. Edgar M. Chatto (Speech in Chicago, IL July 6, 2013) CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – President Barack Obama had just acquired top-of-the-line Samsung teleprompters that almost nobody noticed during the past month because of its “ultra-thin” screen… Read More »
MANILA Leave it to us Filipinos to trivialize a serious occasion. Last July 22 President Benigno Aquino III went to Congress to report on his work and his audience turned the event into an over-the-top fashion show. The President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) is an annual summing up of the executive department’s accomplishments and plans. And… Read More »
CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – Domestic law enforcers, like sheriffs’ deputies and police officers, should learn lessons from overseas police in cracking down on street demonstrators. They should call in the anti-riot squads as a first recourse, not the SWATs, in handling local disturbances. When a couple of sheriff’s deputies responded to quell a disturbance allegedly stirred by a Filipino… Read More »
Nearly every overseas Filipino who has visited the Philippines in the last several years has one common complaint – the horrendous traffic jams in Metro Manila. What normally takes 20 minutes to travel now takes from one hour to two hours depending on which road you are using and what time you are traveling. And rush hour in… Read More »
I have good news for you. This is especially welcome news to those who have secret desires, more so to those who salivate to become senator of Canada. Justin Trudeau, newly crowned leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and thus steps closer to become the country’s Prime Minister is coming to town. Mind you, it will not… Read More »