Tag Archives: Culture & Heritage

Filipinos, Are We A Nation?

Posted 03 September 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | No Comments

by Dr. Eustaquio Abay II Just as we hoped for a new beginning with President Noynoy Aquino with a new mandate, a desperate Filipino ex-policeman holds a busload of Hong Kong tourists in the Philippines hostage, killing eight. The ripples of lack of safety and security in our country has alarmed the international world, further [...]

Who’s afraid of the divorce law?

Posted 24 August 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | No Comments

ON DISTANT SHORE by Val G. Abelgas  In the renewed debate on the proposal to allow divorce in the Philippines, it is almost certain that the fact that outside of the Vatican, the Philippines remains, along with tiny island-nation Malta, the only country in the world with no divorce law. Why is this so? The [...]

The $8 Billion Fil-Am Remittance

Posted 22 August 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | 5 Comments

GLIMPSES by Jose Ma. Montelibano Almost ten years ago, I chanced upon a US market research study which showed that Filipino-Americans were spending $50 billion annually as their collective cost of living. The $50 billion does not include what Filipino-Americans own, what they have in their bank accounts or their investments, just what they spend [...]

Missing ye olde Avenida Rizal

Posted 22 August 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | 2 Comments

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star Coming from the direction of the Malacanang Guest House where your Chair Wrecker met with President Noynoy Aquino last August 11, accompanied by my wife Mey and my sister Carol, we proceeded to a dinner appointment at the New President Restaurant located [...]

Loyal Marcos soldier is Apo’s gatekeeper in Batac

Posted 12 August 2010 | By perry | Categories: Politics & Government | 1 Comment

by Cristina Arzadon from Philippine Daily Inquirer  BATAC CITY—No one can enter the air-conditioned mausoleum housing the remains of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos without going to him first. Not even the strongman’s widow, Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, can see her husband without passing through retired soldier Catalino Bactat, the mausoleum’s gatekeeper for the [...]

Let your children follow their dreams

Posted 11 August 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | No Comments

iTEACH by Jose Esposo Claro from The Philippine Star Nowadays, students with their parents all over the country are busy filling up the application forms of prominent universities and colleges. Most of these questions are easy to answer but most probably, the last one left blank until the very last day for submission is about [...]

Criminal

Posted 08 August 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | 1 Comment

Method To Madness by Patricia Evangelista from Philippine Daily Inquirer  THE CRIMINAL was a woman. They are always women. On paper, the sentence is imprisonment, up to six years. In the dank back rooms of Manila slums, and in the emergency wards of public hospitals, the sentence can be death. In 2008, at least 500,000 [...]

Remember when? A brief history of the old and the recent past

Posted 22 July 2010 | By perry | Categories: Business & Lifestyle | No Comments

By Cesar D. Candari, M.D. FCAP EMERITUS Henderson, Nevada   The People Power Revolution in 1986. This was a historical event that could never be forgotten by all Filipinos wherever they were in those days     The following is a summary of a very interesting history of the Philippines for your information. These are extracts taken [...]

A centennial commemoration of a great personal event

Posted 20 July 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | 1 Comment

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star Tomorrow, July 21, will mark the centennial commemoration of a great personal event to the life of your Chair Wrecker and our family. We will mark the 100th birth anniversary of our late mother — Praxedes Macgregor Esposo. If in life there [...]

Why the Left remains politically insignificant

Posted 16 July 2010 | By perry | Categories: Opinion | 2 Comments

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star The Extreme Left has been raising valid issues for over four decades now and many of these issues form the oppressive dynamics which produce the big gaps in our society – the Information Gap, the Education Gap, the Opportunity Gap and the [...]