Monthly Archives: February 2014

VHONG’S PREDICAMENT ON NEW MOVIE

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 »

Filipino-Canadian Land Ownership

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 »

Betrayal of EDSA

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 »

Scary time for pork barrel scammers

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 »

Singer-Songwriter Rey Valera: ‘The Cemetery Was My Studio’

~”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 »

‘Bahala na kayo sa buhay n’yo’?

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 »

Sharing The Splendor of the World

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 »

Raffy Fabregas Runs for Scarborough Centre

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 »