QUESTION MARK OR ASTERISK FOR MAYWEATHER’S 48-0 RECORD

CHICAGO (JGL) – In team sports as in basketball or in football, if the ball captain or the quarterback is injured, another player or backup quarterback can always step up and the game continues to be played. But in individual sport like boxing or cycling, if the boxer or cyclist suffers severe cramps (pulikat), the boxer can ask… Read More »

A FLASHBACK ON PRESIDENT AQUINO’S PARENTS

Trivia: The recent visit of President Benigno Aquino 111 in Canada brings to my mind some memories of her deceased parents Senator Ninoy Aquino and President Cory Aquino. I had no direct communication and association with Ninoy but it was through the late movie queen Nida Blanca that some facts about him made me aware of his past.… Read More »

Taste of Manila should thrive by Ray Sabatin

“It was a huge crowd of Filipinos at Bathurst and Wilson. The place was awesome”, my son was saying during our get-together in November last year. Of which I responded considering I know nothing about this gig “they were lucky it was a nice weekend. Good weather gets people out.” We are talking about the Taste of Manila, a… Read More »

THE ONLY WAY OUT FOR THE BINAYS

NOT  LAWYERS or Psychics  but  Professors of Management who teach  quantitative techniques (within  operations research) in decision-making should be able to give the ultimate advice to Vice President Binay to pull him out of the quicksand where  he is bumbunan-deep now.  I don’t have the credentials as my UPCA transcript of math grades will attest high probability to bungle it. But I can try as I  have… Read More »

2016 guessing game continues

The latest survey on presidential candidate preferences has left the door open for more candidates to join the race and for political parties to review alliances with other groups. Just a year earlier, it appeared that Vice President Jejomar Binay was a shoo-in to become the next president. But after a well-orchestrated and obviously successful demolition job, this… Read More »

The bad taste of ingratitude

MANILA The Filipino people’s exultation over the reprieve of Mary Jane Veloso from death by firing squad in Indonesia was brief. Ironically, it was cut short by her own family. Veloso was convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia and sentenced to die. Before her scheduled execution in early May, her family visited her to say goodbye. She got… Read More »

MANNY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THE FIGHT

CHICAGO (JGL) – When Manny Pacquiao made a post-fight comment, saying, “I thought I won the fight,” he must be thinking in the back of his mind that “if only my shoulder were not hurting, I could have won the fight.” But he kept his injured condition to himself. But if it was true that his shoulder injury worsened… Read More »

AGRARIAN REFORM AT PAGLIPAT NG TITULO SA LUPA

  Good day po attorney, Nakita ko po yong email nyo sa website BALITA , tumutulong at nagpapayo po kayo sa mga property problems. Nakabili po kasi ako ng property.   Nasa akin na ang title with Deed of Sale( DOS) , naayos na rin sa BIR at Certificate Authorizing Registration(CAR).   Last step sa Department of Agrarian… Read More »

PHILIPPINES 2030 IS A DUD

  PH2030 is a dud.  In Tagalog  it means mintis,  in Espanol  Pidgin: pallado.  For Pinoy New Year’s Eve revellers  it’s a  fizzled whistle bomb.  Very  likely by  2030 in   the Philippines  24/7   it is still happy days for the sons of guns (sanamagans coined by the late Max  Soliven).  That is if the realist  reader has read PH 2030 to the 3rd of  this series.  I told my realists friends the  essays on PH2030  are  fiction based on truth learned from 17… Read More »

Dealing with the stigma of stolen wealth

MANILA How do the children of government officials suspected or convicted of stealing the people’s money feel about their accused parent(s)? Often children of public officials on the dock for corruption sit behind their accused parent during court hearings or at congressional inquiries to show support and solidarity for their elder. But how do they really feel? Are… Read More »