The July Ist celebrations of Canada Day were shared by the more than one hundred cultures that make up this nation. In town centers and parks people of all colours, sexes, religions, ages, political orientations and varied languages gathered together for flag-raising of the Maple Leaf and of singing O’Canada. In Markham, the annual luncheon on July Ist… Read More »
The survival of men depends on how they will communicate with one another in any given time and moment in this life here on earth. It will tell the difference between losing the battle for survival and making the domination of earth to continue. AVV711 Communication is a tool every creature on planet earth uses for survival. Men… Read More »
And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.—Thomas Jefferson, January 1787 CHICAGO (jGLi) – Philippine President Noynoy Aquino should be thick-skinned when it comes to criticisms that have no basis. Such criticisms will not make him vulnerable but… Read More »
If it weren’t real, one would have thought it came from a reel, a scene straight from a movie of the Walking Tall genre, where a local sheriff blasted villains and their cars with his bat. Except that this time, it was a lone sheriff who was being beaten, not with a bat by a bulky man, but… Read More »
Once known as the “Murder Capital” of the Philippines, Davao City once again topped the headlines when Mayor Sara Duterte – surrounded by armed police bodyguards — beat a sheriff while hundreds of horrified people watched. Duterte was caught on video camera punching sheriff Abe Andres – an officer of the court – several times while he was… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – When Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal moved on Aug. 4th, 1964 the celebration of Philippine Independence Day from July 4th, 1946 to June 12, 1898, Filipinos in the Philippines did not mind because their celebration was always overshadowed by America’s celebration of its own Independence. But Macapagal’s moving the date of the Philippine Independence is like… Read More »
Feisty Davao city mayor Sarah Duterte wields a haymaker (a powerful and mean punch) while Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Winning journalist (which makes him a news writer and of late a newsmaker). Duterte whacked a city sheriff last July 2 with a four-punch hits to the head and face whose only sin was to follow a… Read More »
Orlando Quevedo, Juan de Dios Pueblos, and Romulo Valles share things in common. They are not plain men of the cloth only but are bishops of the Roman Catholic Church; they are honourable men and highly respected princes of the Church. Recently, the three, together with four other bishops, were top news sharing the headlines as Philippine media… Read More »
The government said recession is over. But it does not seem so. Unemployment is still up. All levels of government are deeply in debt. People dependent on food banks have increased. The price of gasoline keeps going up. Salaries have mostly remained stagnant and workers are worried about complaining. This is not a time when one can afford… Read More »
No sooner had Virginia Torres returned to her post than she started getting all the flak from critics as well as allies of President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III. As one of P-Noy’s “shooting buddies,” Torres has become the lightning rod for all the things that could go wrong in P-Noy’s administration. In an arrogant display of defiance on… Read More »