Category Archives: From the Editor

A REMINDER

With Integrity, Peace Is Achievable The Holiday Season can evoke nostalgia on everyone.  The season can bring fond memories of loved ones long gone and of happy times spent together. It is like a magic blanket that relives those moments all over again, reuniting families. This year despite all the rough and tumble in life that I have… Read More »

Remembering Ruben on All Souls Day

All Souls Day is here and for people who lost their loved ones, it will surely be a day for remembering. For me, my late husband Ruben Cusipag, had been gone for over eight years, but his memories remain as fresh, as if it happened just yesterday. The Founder of Balita Newspaper, a journalist by heart, a social… Read More »

How easy it is to be misled

Balita is leading the print newspapers in the Filipino community.   We were very solid when in 2012 an outcast of San Diego by the name of ROMEO PILPIL MARQUEZ was introduced to us.  I was stunned, as this was the guy that I was reading when he was fighting with community leaders of San Diego who did… Read More »

THE DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN

No Easy Way to Say Goodbye. One day, I got the bad news that the father of my children who has been battling brain cancer is back in the hospital and prognosis was uncertain.  So my boys promptly took off to Atlanta, Georgia where he now lives with his new family, to maybe have parting words with their… Read More »

The Journey and Surprises continue…

Christmas Season is over and done with again, and thanks God it is back to the normal holiday as we knew it, before the pandemic intervened.  It was a horrible three years of Covid 19, messing up our daily lives.  Although more is known about it now, what is unsettling is the surprises it may spring on us… Read More »

BEWARE… Toronto scammers abound around us! 

 Immigration recruiters are licensed professionals. Without a license you cannot recruit at all. As  simple as that.   Naomi Ong has no license, but she has been recruiting people to come to Canada. She  succeeded in bringing over artists, band, to perform here in Toronto, but they have yet to be paid.   Included in one band was her mother… Read More »

Remembering Ruben on All Souls Day

All Souls Day is here and for people who lost their loved ones, it will surely be a day for remembering. For me, my late husband Ruben Cusipag, had been gone for over eight years, but his memories remain as fresh, as if it happened just yesterday. The Founder of Balita Newspaper, a journalist by heart, a social… Read More »