Even before the start of his impeachment trial CJ Renato Corona spoke on December 15 last year before the nation and uttered his truth in the midst of a cheering crowd. “I oppose this dictatorship that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III is slowly establishing.” “We will not allow them to disrespect and trample on our democracy and the… Read More »
By Kathleen-Claire Resurreccion “It is 1942 when the Japanese soldiers come to the town of Buguey. I live in the district of Maddalero in Buguey at the time. I was five years old,” Grandma says as she lays sprawled on her side around the head of her bed, thin sheets pooled around her feet. I sit cross-legged in… Read More »
Balita was given a copy of the lawsuit by Dale Brazao of the Toronto Star and we are publishing excerpts of the Statement of claim. The plaintiff, Physical Therapy One Inc, is a corporation duly incorporated under the law of the Province of Ontario carrying on the business of physical therapy rehabilitation clinics. In or about the year… Read More »
Noel Copiaco January 16, 2012 As I mentioned in a previous article, many people here in Michigan assumed that I am an American Indian back in 1969. Having long hair and being a little taller than most Asian men in those days, people just assumed so. People called me “chief” almost everywhere even at my (daytime) workplace. In… Read More »
By Noel Copiaco, Lansing, MI After passing a civil service exam in 1969, I was offered a job at an engineering firm here in Michigan. It was my first “real” job with a big company. During the first few months at the firm, it amused me that many of my white co-workers assumed that I am an American… Read More »
By Carmencita ‘Ging’ Hernandez What now, Ging? Nothing like a funeral to get people together, a time to see old friends and reacquaint with new ones with you as a centrepiece for conversation. They said you spent your life for others. There were many who visited the website John Flores, Zoraida’s nephew) set up for you. www.tinyurl.com/7gyrtvy or… Read More »
By Ricardo Jorge S. Caluen Word of the passing of Carmencita “Ging” Hernandez last December 6th left the tight circle of activists within the Filipino community—in Ontario, for that matter– in a state of shock. Everyone knew how dynamic a person Ging was. As she lay comatose in her deathbed at Toronto Western General Hospital, life support systems… Read More »
Publisher Pacquiao Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who is also the Congressman from Saranggani, the TV host, the singer, the basketball player, the billiards shark and many more, is taking on a new persona – a media mogul. To start his venture into the communications business, Pacquiao has already established a radio station in General Santos City which… Read More »
The church I belong to recently hosted an interfaith gathering. The subject of the presentations was water, its importance to man and the environment, and how the government takes care of its conservation. The program was arranged by an organization called “Mosaic”. The presentations which lasted for about two and a half hours were in two parts. The… Read More »
THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE PRINCE OF PEACE By Rudy M. Viernes The United Nations is a world organization of independent countries. It celebrates its 66th founding anniversary October this year. It is the precursor of the League of Nations formed in 1920 and formally dissolved in 1946. The UN was founded in 1945 in San Francisco with… Read More »