Young senator Alan Cayetano wants to run for president in 2016 or 2022. But former President Joseph Estrada doesn’t think he’s qualified. Look who’s talking? Is Estrada, popularly called “Erap,” a college dropout, former movie star and politician, qualified to pronounce judgment on other potential candidates for the highest office? The one and only Erap once hoisted the… Read More »
First, medical doctors became furious when the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s shame campaign hit the road with the first of a series of advertisements- the print ad, published in the Philippine Inquirer showed a doctor piggybacking on a teacher who presumably earns a lower salary than her but pays higher taxes to the BIR. To the rescue came… Read More »
With his family and well-known community leaders and friends around him to stress his political outlook, Filipino-Canadian lawyer Rafael Fabregas kicks off a grassroots campaign to win the nomination of the Liberal Party of Canada and hopefully become its standard bearer in the election for a seat in Parliament representing Scarborough Centre riding in the Greater Toronto Area.… Read More »
By Dinno Erece REMEMBER G Toengi? If you do then don’t be surprised if you heard about her giving Kapuso starlet Joyce Ching a dressing down. No one’s talking about it, but G actually told Joyce during a pictorial for the GMA7 early primetime soap Paraiso Ko’y Ikaw not to call her ‘Tita G.’ The Balikbayan actress gave… Read More »
I planned to stay a year. Here I am on my forty-first year of living in the country, Canada. I left the Philippines on a one-year leave from my position at work. After the first year I wrote my place of work for another year of extension of my leave. After two years, I went back and personally… Read More »
I planned to stay a year. Here I am on my forty-first year of living in the country, Canada. I left the Philippines on a one-year leave from my position at work. After the first year I wrote my place of work for another year of extension of my leave. After two years, I went back and personally… Read More »
Prior to his publicized mauling incident, Vhong Navarro started filming his new movie The Possessed which his good friend Joyce Bernal directs. Now, Joyce shared his predicament when its filming resumes. Supposedly, the said comedy-horror flick has to shoot a scene which Vhong shows being beaten black and blue. Of course, direk Joyce has a second thought. If… Read More »
Q. Hello Rogelio, I am a Canadian married to a Filipina for over 22 years now. We have 2 children who were born in Canada. My wife and I are wondering whether our children are entitled to own rice land and residential lands and a house in the Philippines. We believe our two children are “dual citizens, of… Read More »
The Supreme Court has an uncanny way of commemorating the 28th anniversary of the People’s Power Revolution. On a day when the whole nation was celebrating the restoration of freedom in the country with the downfall of strongman Ferdinand Marcos following four days of massive protests on EDSA in February 1986, twelve justices of the Supreme Court opted… Read More »
Simple words but worth so much more because they are expressed with the whole heart of a nation that went through a very recent harrowing experience of devastation and very quickly received such grand and great show of support from many nations of the world. The visuals that graced these words of gratitude were ‘tourism’ photos- glossy, featuring… Read More »