Nearly every overseas Filipino who has visited the Philippines in the last several years has one common complaint – the horrendous traffic jams in Metro Manila. What normally takes 20 minutes to travel now takes from one hour to two hours depending on which road you are using and what time you are traveling. And rush hour in… Read More »
I have good news for you. This is especially welcome news to those who have secret desires, more so to those who salivate to become senator of Canada. Justin Trudeau, newly crowned leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and thus steps closer to become the country’s Prime Minister is coming to town. Mind you, it will not… Read More »
There were a number of developments that caught the interest of kababayans at the start of this month- Typhoon Gorio (that’s the storm’s local name) sparing the country from further ruin by failing to unleash its fury. We thank the government especially its barangay officials, as they truly did their jobs this time, mapping out a disaster management… Read More »
An archetypal swashbuckler, rambunctious to a point, an uncanny nose for news, hard drinker but hardworking, irreverent but with a sense of honor and justice. Passionately in love with his craft. If this would be the epitaph on Ruben’s tombstone, it might as well be for those breed of journalists (to which he belonged and a few are… Read More »
Whenever a senior Filipino professional leaves to work abroad, alarms bells ring out and panic reigns here in the Philippines. There goes the talent, woe unto us! people cry out. The debate here about a brain drain has been around for decades. OMG, what are we going to do, Dr. Somebody has abandoned us! goes the cry. In… Read More »
When the wave of Filipino professionals landing on North American soil started in the 1960s and 70s, a small number of them included journalists who had already made their mark in Manila. Finding the urge to write and publish irresistible, these scribes itched to start their own publications. On the west coast, the likes of Alex Esclamado and… Read More »
As heavy rains suddenly poured and the streets of MetroManila were flooded with knee- deep or in some other areas higher waters, my daughter Mhyka was in the final hours of painful labor to give birth to her first son at the Mandaluyong Medical Center. When the rains stopped by evening and while the stranded commuters and pedestrians… Read More »
CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – Anybody who ventures into the unknown must adopt the old but tried and tested scientific method of trial-and-error. The beauty of trial-and-error is that it does not try to discover the reason why it works. Nor does it attempt to find out all the solutions nor the best solution. And little or no knowledge of… Read More »
MANILA Are the cheating, stealing, crimes of all sorts and widespread corruption in our country the “new normal”? Let’s take the recent elections (last May 13) as an example. Violence against one another, cheating, unfairness, deception, deviousness, and a general tendency to break the law. These are among the bad things we do just to get what we… Read More »
For decades, the Philippine government has been trying to find a lasting solution to the nagging problem of squatters in Metro Manila, far longer than the efforts to solve the equally and seemingly unsolvable communist and Muslim insurgency problems. These problems are like body itch. You scratch one area and the itch reappears in even more places in… Read More »