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 »
Last October 10, Canada just celebrated Thanksgiving Day! Indeed, Canadians have a lot to thank for. Unlike other countries, Canada has been spared from the wrath of economic recession. Newfoundland, with its oil and mineral wealth, has grown strong during this period. In fact, this province has maintained its “have” status despite the many challenges besetting other places.… Read More »
In the past few weeks, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Sonny Belmonte have been pushing for Congress to convene itself into a constituent assembly to introduce amendments to the 1987 Philippine Constitution. Less than 10 months ago, Belmonte would have none of it. He said then that the cha-cha was not among the priorities of… Read More »
MANILA The Philippines has been in the global news lately because of the exposes on the plunder and corruption wrought by the past administration of Gloria Arroyo. Recent news has cast us as a nation of thieves and cheats who take every opportunity to grab a quick buck at the expense of the public treasury. The exposes point… Read More »