MANILA The quietude of this past Holy Week here made the mind wander, searching for something to think, muse and wonder about. It’s amazing how the mind can go places. A blank stare can produce images and remembrances of the many crossroads in one’s life, people who’ve crossed one’s path, here and in distant places. Remembered scenes are… Read More »
The recent appointment of a former Customs official, who was accused by a self-confessed fixer as among those taking bribes, to deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Customs puts an anti-climactic conclusion to the P6.4-billion shabu smuggling scandal, which started as a scorching drama that threatened to expose the underbelly of the supposedly corruption-free family of President Rodrigo… Read More »
‘Ika nga ng isang pasaway: Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, may stiff neck. No, no to stiff neck. Not now, not ever! Thus so, I will always look back to the fond and great memories I have of the place – Barangay Balumpare in Sampaloc, Manila — where I was born and was raised, up to my mid-teens.… Read More »
Q. Dear attorney, good day! may tanong po sana ako, about po sa legality and sa inherited property. 7 buwan palang nung pinagbubuntis siya ng biological mom nya ay namatay yung biological father nya. Noon pinanganak siya sa home lang. Meron siyang birth certificate ng biological mother niya sa pangalang Dexter at ginamit din ito para sa SSS… Read More »
MANILA Who would have thought the B movie “The “Purge” could ever become a reality anywhere in the world? Actually, it’s what’s happening here in the Philippines. Life does imitate art. There was a movie (and a sequel) that depicts an annual night of cleansing society of “undesirables” by killing people in a span of one night. The… Read More »
FOR all its claims of a resolute war against drugs and corruption, the Duterte administration seems to be showing the opposite with two recent questionable legal moves – the dropping of charges against several prominent suspected drug lords and the decision to put alleged pork scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles under the Witness Protection Program with the end… Read More »
Positive and negative results engulfed actress turned director Beverly Vergel after her initial job as director of the first indie Fil-Canadian movie Living Instead. She garnered best director trophies in world film fests held in Europe, U.S. and even in Canada. Unluckily, however, Beverly’s name had been dragged into messy controversies before and after the movie had been… Read More »
I have been following this very controversial bill in our Canada’s House of Common since last year, that will force employers to support abortion and transgenderism in order to get student summer job funding. Here’s the latest update on the Bill Canada’s House of Commons voted 207 to 93 on Monday March 19, 2018 to defeat a Conservative… Read More »
An enraged Ryan Agoncillo retaliated on invidious words of a basher who reported he has a crush, secret desire for Marian Rivera. At his Instagram, Ryan frankly remarked the basher is insensitive out of his mind to link him with Marian. In the first place, all these years Ryan and wife Judy Ann Santos are happily married.… Read More »
A new law took effect in Ontario last month. It is now an offence, punishable by punitive fines and prison, to “attempt to advise or persuade” someone to refrain from having an abortion, or to “attempt to inform a person concerning issues related to abortion services”, or to “attempt to perform an act of disapproval [of abortion]”… Read More »