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Monthly Archives for December 2011
Mapayapa at masaganang bagong taon!
Sana natuto tayo sa mga nangyari sa iiwanan nating taon. Sana magiging mapayapa at masagana hindi lamamang sa taong 2012, kasama na rin ang susunod na mga taon! Let’s start the year right by not touching firecrackers. If you can … Continue reading
The ‘thief in the night’ gets caught
Finally, Gloria Arroyo will be made accountable for the anomalous NBN/ZTE deal. The Ombudsman yesterday charged Gloria Arroyo, her husband Mike Arroyo, and two other officials of her government – former Commission on Elections Benjamin Abalos and former Transportation and … Continue reading
Ombudsman files graft charges vs Arroyo; to be raffled Jan.2
From abs-cbnNEWS.com The graft charges filed by the Ombudsman against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before the Sandiganbayan will be raffled off next week. “The Office of the Ombudsman has requested a special raffle today but it was disapproved by … Continue reading
Aquino to strengthen legal team
It’s good that President Aquino finally saw the need to make changes in his legal team. With a stronger legal team, he need not resort to making us believe it is good governance to bend the law to make Gloria … Continue reading
Making Christmas meaningful
I was talking with Mindanao-based photo-journalist Erwin Mascariñas, who brought us heart-rending images of the tragedy wrought by storm Sendong in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, the other day and telling him that I felt awkward greeting him “Merry Christmas” … Continue reading
May we all have a blessed and meaningful Christmas!
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
Surviving Sendong
BY Erwin Mascariñas, VERA Files CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Floodwaters brought by storm “Sendong” swept Cagayan de Oro and Iligan city and other parts of Central Mindanao while people were sleeping Friday night last week. Power went out. In … Continue reading
An appeal for our media colleagues battered by typhoon ‘Sendong’
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) appeals to colleagues and the public to extend help to media workers including NUJP members who have been ravaged by typhoon “Sendong.” Hundreds have died and many more have been left … Continue reading
Time for reckoning for Palparan
I remember that speech to be most obscene. In her sixth State-of-the-Nation address on July 24, 2006, Gloria Arroyo, amidst cries of parents of University of the Philippines Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño and relatives of Manuel Merino, a farmer, … Continue reading
Sendong’s dead dumped in garbage landfill site
Text and photos by Froilan Gallardo, Mindanews I am a professional photojournalist and I am not in a habit of showing bloated bodies unless there is a compelling reason. This is an exception. The city government of Cagayan de Oro … Continue reading
