Trust Sen. Miriam Santiago to author bills that stem out from her ‘inis’ with what she seems to regard as ‘sobra na’. Tiempo naman that most of the Philippine public shares her feelings with what both see as ‘kapalaluan’- yun bang over- over and major- major talaga. Hence her bill that is getting to be known as the… Read More »
Philippine Press Club-Ontario was established in December 17, 2001. This year, 2011, it turns ten. Before PPCO, the Filipino community had seen a robust media presence for at least 30 years in the GTA. However, there never was a media organization that existed in Ontario during those years. It is not far-fetched to say that PPCO is the… Read More »
One would think someone who is no longer in power would be less arrogant. But such is not the case with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Instead of continuing to plead for compassion so that the government would finally allow her to travel abroad supposedly for medical treatment of a rare bone disease, her spokesperson is now threatening to bring… Read More »
I came across a segment of “60 minutes” several weeks ago wherein the wife and the son of Bernie Madoff were being interviewed. The wife revealed that the amount her husband defrauded from investors was about $67 billion dollars. Sixty seven billions? What can $67b buy? What did one person who it appears kept the secret of this… Read More »
I can understand why the Aquino administration allocated P39 billion for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) to be doled out to 2.3 million poor households. But to give P5 million to Muslim rebels and another P31 million to the dreaded Alex Boncayao Brigade is beyond reason. What is President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III up to? What did he… Read More »
The decades-old armed conflict in the large southern island of Mindanao reared its head again when an army patrol was ambushed there recently, resulting in the death of 19 soldiers. Some of the soldiers were tortured first and then beheaded or dismembered. Immediately, howls of outrage rang in this capital and elsewhere, demanding retaliation by the government. Hotheads… Read More »
Manny Pacquiao’s controversial win over his nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez is now the talk of the world, or more specifically the international sporting community. Mixed reactions ranged from “ It should have been a draw…. to Marquez won the fight..that Manny has lost his fighting form and was not the same fighter who dumped opponents like Hatton, Cotto,… Read More »
A worried reaction seems to betide the Gerald Anderson-Kim Chiu diehard followers. It’s the aftermath of the sudden popularity of Kim’s team up with Xian Lim in the TV series My Binondo Girl. Worldwide through the TFC of the Kapamilya network, not a few have been enthralled by the tandem. Perhaps, one reason could be attributed to their… Read More »
The “hawks “agitating for an all-out war against the Muslim secessionist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Mindanao should reconsider their stand. The lessons of Jolo, Sulu should remind us those violent confrontations such as armed conflict produces neither winners nor losers. There is only loss of lives, damage to properties, displaced families and homes and other… Read More »
Q. On behalf of my brothers and sisters, I am writing to you as the surviving legitimate children of our late parents. We are all of legal age, married, citizens and residents of the Philippines, during the years of the demise of our parents. Our father died in 1972, while our mother died in 1987. They were both… Read More »