Travel Specialist WANTED

IATA,TICO Travel Agency seeking a professional Travel Specialist to join our agency. We will provide full training and use of our client base management system, booking engines, and invoicing system. Training is mandatory as part of on-boarding. TICO Travel Counsellor certificate and Travel sales experience is preferred. Must be willing to complete various certification programs provided by our… Read More »

Following the path of pilosopong Tasio

“That is a madman: he does not understand life! The curate calls me philosopher for nickname… Perhaps I may really be the fool and they, the sane, who can tell?” – Jose Rizal, Noli Me Tangere (1887) Readers of Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere will remember old pilosopong Tasio. He was described as such in the book but the… Read More »

Celebrating a Miracle of Hope: 100 Years of Insulin

By Hermione Cabie-Santos, MD and Prof. Honor Blanco Cabie DIABETES (a metabolic condition in which the body has elevated blood sugar levels as a result of insulin deficiency or insulin resistance) was once a death sentence until the first score of the 20th century. It remains among the health challenges the world faces throughout the current pandemic. Thanks to… Read More »

FCT Scraps Accounting Principles in Awarding $500K Back Pay

Can Their Lawyers Answer Simple Questions? by Cress Vasquez The Filipino Centre Toronto (FCT) has demonstrated a dislike for conventions such as the accounting principle of listing payables as a liability in financial records like balance sheets and financial statements. Instead, what FCT President and CEO Mary Ann San Juan has done was use a special resolution to… Read More »

Vouchers Show Overpayment of FCT Payables ?

Can San Juan, Lumanlan Point Out What is False Here by Cress Vasquez Good deeds should not go unnoticed, especially with a community organization like the Filipino Centre Toronto (FCT), which is supposedly run by volunteers. But if FCT’s general membership is not fully aware of the process of granting reward and recognition, who should stand to blame?… Read More »

Legal Sources Say $500K Paid to Couple Likely Violated FCT Constitution Can Dr. Antonina de Villa Say Something About This Hot Issue?

by Cress Vasquez Working for the same organization for several years has its rewards, but wait until you see how the Filipino Centre Toronto (FCT) board of directors passed a special resolution that put some $500,000 into the pockets of a husband and wife. The payment, according to lawyers from two different law firms, was likely a violation… Read More »

The Race Against COVID-19 Variants: Are There More Beyond Delta and Mu?

By Hermione Cabie Santos On August 23, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration finally granted its first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine, under the proprietary name COMIRNATY, reached a significant milestone in the pandemic’s history. Less than a year after the issuance of emergency use authorization (EUA) to COVID-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical giants, approximately 33… Read More »

Filipino Organization Hides Behind Toronto Mayor John Tory to Mask Taxable Salaries, $678,000 Disbursements Omitted in Financial Statements Lawyers Hired to Intimidate Folks Who Ask Questions

by Cress Vasquez When Toronto Mayor John Tory spoke at the inauguration of the Filipino Centre Toronto’s (FCT) new office in Scarborough, August 2019, little did he suspect that he was in the company of individuals behind the omission of large liabilities, payables, and taxable salaries in FCT’s financial statements, and the hiring of lawyers for reasons unknown. … Read More »