Tribute to Rizal sesquiscentennial part of PIWC 36th year events The gala dinner ball of the Philippine Independence Week Committee June 25 capped the 113th year anniversary of the declaration of Philippine Independence in the Chicago area. The PIWC started in 1975 and it is the oldest of the four groups that put up...
By Jon Melegrito Letter from Washington After more than five years as Philippine Ambassador to the U.S., Willy Gaa bade farewell to the Filipino American community at a May 22 despedida hosted by the Philippine American Foundation for Charities (PAFC). Less than a month later, the community welcomed the new ambassador – Jose L....
By Eliseo Jojo Prisno CRPC As of this writing, the stock market has been posting negative weekly returns six weeks in a row, the longest since 2002, statistically worst compared to what we went through in 2008 and the first half of 2009. Are we heading for a major market correction again? Both the...
By Mariano “Anong” Santos Publisher/Editor Dr. Zita Yorro, the overall coordinator of the University of Santo Tomas Medical Association of America reunion in Lincolnshire, Illinois this independence weekend might not have realized it but beyond the purposes of her group’s July 1-4 agenda, there is an added significance in bringing the UST Father Rector...
By Mariano Santos Publisher/Editor For 15 years, the Philippines celebrated its Independence Day on July 4th. It was on that day in 1946 that the United States granted its colony of 47 years its political independence. In fact, up to the late 1960s, the third Thursday of November was also a Thanksgiving holiday back...
Letter from Washington By Jon Melegrito I’m writing this on Friday, May 20 – the day before the world is supposed to end. If you’re reading this, then the doomsday announcement is just another hoax. But what if it does happen, this Apocalypse? I have less than 24 hours to mull this over, so...
