MANILA Is the law catching up with the legislators who had allegedly skimmed off their PDAF allocations? Are these legislators quaking in their boots now? The so-called pork barrel scam here is the most scandalous case of theft of the people’s money in recent times. Supposedly a brainchild of “pork queen” Janet Lim Napoles, the scheme… Read More »
~”Below zero” was how Rey Valera describes his life before fame and fortune beckoned. He was impoverished and living with relatives whose kindness he repaid by doing household chores for them. He found refuge among the dead, in a cemetery near where he stayed in Bulacan. That was his studio. Almost half of the hit songs he wrote was composed in… Read More »
When we talk to immigrants about things they most value in living in Canada, one of the first things they would mention is health care privileges. “You can rush to a doctor or a hospital with your health card and not worry that you do not have enough money to pay for the health care services you badly… Read More »
More than three months after super typhoon Yolanda wrought havoc on Leyte, Samar and other provinces in Central Visayas, the devastated cities look just slightly better than when they were a few days after the calamity struck. The affected people, hundreds of thousands of them, remain homeless, without source of income, without adequate food and basic necessities, without… Read More »
By Mercy Maliglig A dream-like offer of love that sounded so real and hard to resist. It was a three month long tale or maybe more that happened to someone I personally know. The girl who divulged the story hardly use the facebook but that one fateful day when she decided to communicate with a relative in Madrid,… Read More »
by Cress Vasquez After Dr. Rey Pagtakhan left his seat in the House of Commons in 2004, no other Filipino-Canadian came after him. However, this is about to change. Toronto lawyer Rafael Fabregas, or “Raffy” to his friends, is running for the Federal Liberal Party nomination in Scarborough Centre. Although there are 500,000 Filipino-Canadians in Canada, they… Read More »
“Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina The News UpFront: (TOP STORY) as of Monday, February 10, 2014 ~ From his notoriously flippant way of verbalizing his undisguised glee with expletives, Voltaire de Leon plays with words again. The phrase “the incident of theft” quite clearly conveys a fact… Read More »
This is by far the most costly Olympics ever – about fifty billion dollars! The preparation started seven years ago. At the time of the opening, there were hotel rooms that were not completed, unclean water was coming out of some faucets and guests who reserved rooms a long time ago found their accommodations occupied by other people.… Read More »
After boasting that the country will be self-sufficient in rice by 2013 and a rice exporter by 2014, it appears the Aquino administration is admitting failure and is giving up on these lofty goals. Malacanang announced last week that it was shifting its focus from attaining rice self-sufficiency to the farming of alternative, high-value crops such as pineapple,… Read More »