Alahoy! Alahoy! ‘Ginaya’ ang EDSA! Sa Egypt! Sa Yemen! At maging sa Libya! Sez Barack to Moammar: “Abah, sibat ka na” Hihihi! ! Sa Hawaii, Baka dun mapunta? * * * Tararadzingpotpot! Nagkapetotpetot! Gulo sa Middle East, ang OFWs! Sila ‘naiipit’ pirde ang trabahos! Iniuuwi na! Buhe delikados! * * * Sir Tomas Kaluban! Iba e ‘palaban’ Me… Read More »
A few days before the 25th anniversary of the Feb.25 EDSA 1 revolution , senator Ferdinand “Bongbong “ Marcos Jr. declared the Philippines could have been as progressive like Singapore if his father, the late president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos had not been kicked out. He was referring to the highly developed and economically prosperous –island city-state which… Read More »
The veracity that the showbiz industry will be incomplete sans the mention of Dolphy remains undisputed. For he’s not only a rib-tickler unmatched but also a personification of a thoroughly good man behind the cameras. All told, the accolades handed to him by award giving bodies and civic sectors, plus the countless bravuras and reaps given to him… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – At about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1986 (Manila time) (3 p.m. EST, Feb. 24, Monday), President Marcos had just hanged up his phone after taking a call from Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt (Rep.). Mr. Marcos must not have returned to bed anymore because three and a half hours later at 7:30 a.m., Philip… Read More »
In times like this — when all things is going wayward to oblivion, when there’s no place to run, and nobody to call for help — then it is the time to be with GOD and His Word. AVV 211 When your love one is in a country of war, in a nation devastated by natural calamities; When… Read More »
The United States District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee has ordered a Filipino immigrant couple to pay a Filipina caregiver $1-million in punitive damages after they were found liable for Civil RICO violation for human trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, harboring an alien, mail and wire frauds. The $1-Million award is on top of… Read More »
Q. Hi Wong , I’ve been reading your advices in the Balita together with our fellow kababayans. Naglakas loob po akong sumulat sa inyo dahil sa aking problema. I don’t know kung saan ako hihingi ng advice since I don’t have any relative here in Canada. I don’t know kung ano ang itatawag ninyo sa akin because my… Read More »
Concern for Filipinos overseas was the biggest worry of Pinoys at home the last few weeks. The turmoil besetting Libya had kin and families of OFW’s stationed in that Muslim nation going into hysterics and rushing to the Foreign Affairs Office in Manila to squeeze more details to the scanty reportings of what is actually happening there and… Read More »
They were all in tears when they came into the country’s national consciousness, these whistleblowers. The latest of them — former AFP budget officers retired Lt. Col. George Rabusa and Lt. Col. Antonio Lim, and former COA auditor Heidi Mendoza – all wiped tears as they narrated the massive corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)… Read More »