Q. On behalf of my brothers and sisters, I am writing to you as the surviving legitimate children of our late parents. We are all of legal age, married, citizens and residents of the Philippines, during the years of the demise of our parents. Our father died in 1972, while our mother died in 1987. They were both… Read More »
Real answers to some inquiries will lead to several more questions because the world of spirits overwhelms the man’s capacity to accept the vast mystery of the spiritual realm. AVV1011 There are certain urban legends that need to be answered in a truthful manner and within the parameters of the paranormal realms for better understanding. Here are three… Read More »
The church I belong to recently hosted an interfaith gathering. The subject of the presentations was water, its importance to man and the environment, and how the government takes care of its conservation. The program was arranged by an organization called “Mosaic”. The presentations which lasted for about two and a half hours were in two parts. The… Read More »
Balita was invited to a home in Scarborough where a group of about 20 Filipinos gathered to relate how they were victimized by Rowena Villanueva, the subject of a Toronto Star headline who cheated fellow Filipinos with by now more than a million dollars in total. So many victims have surfaced after the article came out. Dale Brazo,… Read More »
Toronto. – For his pioneering accomplishment as Filipino-Canadian journalist in Canada, Balita publisher Ruben Cusipag will be honoured with the “Life Achievement Award” at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 11. Melinda P. Rustia, The Kol Hope Foundation for Children president, said Cusipag will receive the award during the Foundation’s Presidential Ball. Kol Hope is an international foundation… Read More »
Recently, Malacañang announced that former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is free to travel to Germany to seek medical treatment. When presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda was asked if the Palace was worried Gloria might not return after President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III vowed to file the first government case against her in November, he said that it was up… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – When U.S. Congress passed more than a week ago the United States free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, I had a mixed feeling of enjoyment and depression. Actually, I feel envious that these countries that don’t have any “special” relations with the U.S. were able to wangle new trade partnerships with the… Read More »
The world has indeed become one global village, as the late Canadian philosopher and scholar Herbert Marshall McLuhan had predicted 30 years before the creation of the World Wide Web or what we now know as the internet. In the Sixties, McLuhan wrote in his book “The Gutenberg Galaxy” that the visual, individualistic print culture would soon be… Read More »
When was the last time that a death of one man affected the day-to-day lives of ordinary people — globally? I am not referring to Steve Jobs of Apple fame. It couldn’t be him. Not everyone on this planet has an iPhone, iPad or an iPod; nor could everyone afford a Mac notebook, either. I am talking of… Read More »
MANILA Will former President Gloria Arroyo be spending Christmas in jail? It’s a possibility. Some six legal cases have been lodged against Arroyo since leaving office end-June 2010. Most of them are for plunder which, legally defined, is the theft of the people’s money worth at least P50 million while in office. I had visualized when Arroyo was… Read More »