The United States District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee has ordered a Filipino immigrant couple to pay a Filipina caregiver $1-million in punitive damages after they were found liable for Civil RICO violation for human trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, harboring an alien, mail and wire frauds. The $1-Million award is on top of… Read More »
Concern for Filipinos overseas was the biggest worry of Pinoys at home the last few weeks. The turmoil besetting Libya had kin and families of OFW’s stationed in that Muslim nation going into hysterics and rushing to the Foreign Affairs Office in Manila to squeeze more details to the scanty reportings of what is actually happening there and… Read More »
They were all in tears when they came into the country’s national consciousness, these whistleblowers. The latest of them — former AFP budget officers retired Lt. Col. George Rabusa and Lt. Col. Antonio Lim, and former COA auditor Heidi Mendoza – all wiped tears as they narrated the massive corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)… Read More »
Love is the most powerful force on earth. It can conquer anything such as time, space, and even life. No obstacles can withstand such power of true love for true love will continue to live on always and forever. AVV211 Slowly, the current generation seems to lose the true essence of the emotion called love. They are now… Read More »
If the Aquino administration is serious in its drive to stamp out corruption in government, it should focus on two hot items that have recently hogged the headlines – the plunder case on former AFP comptroller retired Gen. Carlos Garcia and the gruesome murder of two car dealers allegedly by a well-entrenched carnapping syndicate. From all indications, these… Read More »
MetroM is experiencing, over the past two weeks, hiatus from rainshowers and rains- restful pa rin ang weather, meaning, malamig- lamig, masarap- sarap maglakad outside of the airconditioned malls, and, pakiramdam ko lang ha, nakatulong ang existing weather na ito sa ‘mood’ ng Pinoy city- dweller- maganda- ganda naman ang hwisyo ng marami nating ordinaryong kababayan ( kasali… Read More »
After being hailed as heroes in the now much copied People Power Revolution of 1986, the Philippine military, or known as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now under heavy fire and scrutiny amid accusations of graft and corruption scandals that had surfaced over the last few weeks culminating in the Harakiri-style suicide of one of… Read More »
Now that your kids are older, four inches taller, and five times more assertive than previous years, you finally realize that your kids are not kids anymore. In fact as preteens and teens, they’re somewhat different. Now, they are reluctant to go with you during your weekly visits to the family cabin. Now, they prefer to have as… Read More »
They were all in tears when they came into the country’s national consciousness, these whistleblowers. The latest of them — former AFP budget officers retired Lt. Col. George Rabusa and Lt. Col. Antonio Lim, and former COA auditor Heidi Mendoza – all wiped tears as they narrated the massive corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)… Read More »
Most of the very young children of Filipino origin in our midst now must be third or fourth generation Canadians. That is, if their parents are offsprings of those who came to this country in the sixties or seventies when large numbers of Filipinos first arrived in this country. During those first years of Filipino family immigration to… Read More »