The country tries to get back to normalcy after the monsoon rain floods of last week. There is serious effort from Malacanang to execute flood control plans that have ‘slept’ in government office filing cabinets for many years- cisterns, dikes and dams for the most- heavily flooded areas during the rainy seasons. Meantime, for the more urgent concerns,… Read More »
Member, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce LONDON – Rock star egos, swelled heads, power trips, petty rivalries, deliberate lying – they all converged in one occasion that… Read More »
In the 1886 novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” the author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about strange occurrences between Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. As the story goes, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were two personalities within one person or commonly known as “split personality.” In recent years, China – or her government… Read More »
“Be a listening Church,” a professor of Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University, Mary Racelis, said on Sunday as she appealed to irate bishops to “listen to the laity who understand what the families and the women from the grassroots are going through.” Racelis was reacting to the adamant protests of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Published reports that install Justice Secretary Leila de Lima as the front-runner in the search for the replacement of convicted Chief Justice Renato Corona are not only overhype but also myopic choice. Even if the Judicial Bar Council (JBC) would include Secretary De Lima, my kababayan (region mate) from Bicol (she was born in Iriga… Read More »
Each and every year, the now becoming common sight of people on rooftops escaping rampaging floodwaters, queue of evacuees begging for relief and food is almost always a picture perfect poster for typhoon-prone Philippines. It’s more fun frolicking in floodwaters in the Philippines ! The latest August 6,2012 great deluge that inundated the Manila Metropolis, Central Luzon and… Read More »
MANILA It rained non-stop on the first week of August here, resulting in 60 deaths and 2.5 million people affected by flooding. This capital city and 16 provinces took the brunt of destruction. Rains from the southwest monsoon, made more savage by tropical storm Haikui (local name: Gener), came down without let-up and within 22 hours the heavens… Read More »
At the lobby of a hospital a huge sign in bold reads: “All procedures performed at this hospital are of the staff only. This hospital and its owners are not liable for any error or death that would happen as a result of any procedure done by our staff in this hospital. Whatever our staff do, doctors included,… Read More »
Laughter is best medicine Sometimes a bad joke is a dose for a killing. Yet laughter is the best medicine. I subscribe to this old adage but many don’t for one reason or another. Whether we laugh or not, a little bit of humour would change our sometimes boring or regimented way of life in search of those… Read More »