With the Aquino administration, when something goes wrong there is always somebody or something to blame. After all, President Aquino is still blaming former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for everything that ails the country more than four years after he took over the reins of the country. For example, when the government failed to fulfill its promise and… Read More »
MANILA There is no holiday bigger than Christmas for us Filipinos. We’re simply crazy about it. The longest Christmas (I believe Mexico makes the same claim). The happiest holiday. The best time of the year. All true. As we all know, Christmas carols start wafting in the air the moment the “ber” months come rolling in.… Read More »
Sen. Grace Poe denied again on Monday that she has any plans of running for a higher office in 2016. That’s the second time she has said so amid increasing calls for the 2013 senatorial elections top vote getter to run for president or vice president in the coming presidential elections. The neophyte lady senator made the statement… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – If President Obama fulfills his promise to issue an executive order on Friday (Nov. 21), there is no more need for Filipino Americans to press for Temporary Protective Status (TPS) that would have authorized tens of thousands of undocumented Filipinos in the United States to obtain work permit and stop their deportation following the devastation… Read More »
More than a year since super typhoon Yolanda brought death, destruction and deprivation to Leyte and other provinces in Eastern Visayas, nobody still knows for sure how many died, the destruction remains very visible, and the victims continue to be deprived of food, shelter and jobs. And all because more than a year since the world’s strongest recorded… Read More »
The death last Saturday – the day millions of people in some countries remember their dead — of Brittany Maynard, who chose to end her life at the young age of 29 rather than suffer while waiting for the inevitable, reignited the dormant debate over the right to die with dignity. “Goodbye to all my dear friends and… Read More »
I have just finished sharing the Remembrance Day Celebration in Ottawa via television. It was a very emotional celebration—–warm, poignant and solemn. The prime minister and his wife were there, the governor general and his wife, Princess Royal Anne, the lady who was chosen to represent all Canadian mothers, the top heads of the different branches of the… Read More »
Frankly, it’s surprising how ineffective the camp of Vice President Jojo Binay has been in handling the corruption crisis that’s smothering him. It’s so evident that the bombshell exploded by former Makati Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado took the Binay camp by surprise. Mercado was already all over the place before Binay’s fire brigade came to the scene. If… Read More »
With the damning allegations hurled against Vice President Jejomar Binay in the past few weeks, one would think, as one columnist said, the former human rights lawyer and Makati mayor “can kiss his presidential bid goodbye.” I wish it were that simple because the country badly needs a president who is beyond reproach, but recent history tells us… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – If Filipinos would like to force the hands of Presidents Barack Obama and Noynoy Aquino to change the terms of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) as a result of the alleged murder of a Filipino Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude in the hands of a United States Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton, they have to… Read More »