The appointment of two Liberal Party stalwarts to highly sensitive Cabinet posts signals the start of a three-year long campaign of President Aquino’s party to hold on to Malacanang for six more years after Aquino’s term expires in 2016. Last week, Aquino named LP president Mar Roxas, his running mate in the 2010 elections, as head of… Read More »
Well, folks, the 2016 presidential race is on! And as we get closer to Election Day –that’s four short years away – the battle would intensify and get really nasty… I mean, very nasty! Indeed, no sooner had Mar Roxas been sworn in as the new Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) than… Read More »
If plans don’t miscarry Nora Aunor and Lovi Poe will grace the Toronto Film Festival this month after attending the Venice Film Festival. The two are the stars of the official Philippine entry Thy womb. Its helmer, the internationally acclaimed director Brilliante Mendoza, definitely would grace the said film fests too.. The movie’s plot wobbles on the ethnic… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Attorney Hector Villacorta apologized to American Sarah Pope for not attributing to her blog (combination of the terms web and log) a portion of a speech he prepared for his boss, Sen. Vicente Sotto, III, but Mr. Sotto’s chief of staff’s apology left a bad taste in the mouth. The apology did not carry remorse… Read More »
MANILA Believe it or not some Philippine communities in the areas ravaged by the monsoon rains in the first week of August are still flooded. And even when the water goes away, there will be a lot of cleaning up to do and picking up of the lives of the flood’s victims. In the aftermath of typhoon Ondoy… Read More »
Q. Sometime in 2007 while in the Philippines, my husband abandoned me and our two children. The incurable promiscuity, vicious vices like gambling and his volcanic temper were the primary causes of our marriage breakdown. Freed from this bondage, I did not contest our separation. Thereafter, I and my children left the country and are now settled in … Read More »
The first major disaster happened on schedule as published in this newspaper early January of 2012. The lesson should be learned by now as two more disasters are coming and hopefully people will now listen and be more prepared. AVV812 A Southwest monsoon rain caused the Mega Manila and the wide areas of Luzon to be under water… Read More »
It was a bright, sunny but relaxingly cool August day, a perfect summer Saturday weekend in the heart of downtown Toronto. August 18- at 8:00am white tents suddenly begun sprouting in the Yonge-Dundas Square, now fast becoming as famous as its iconic counterpart New York’s Times Square. Suddenly, in a matter of hours, huge crowds came streaming down… Read More »
While the appointment of the young and brilliant Maria Lourdes Sereno as the new chief justice may be viewed as a boost to judicial reforms, it may not necessarily mean that President Aquino will start seeing favorable decisions from the Supreme Court. On the contrary, the President may now find it more difficult to sway the high tribunal… Read More »