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Ann Constantino Beck: Forest Hills mom is an Uber driver
By Cristina DC Pastor Two years ago when her husband was laid off, aspiring artist Ann Constantino Beck was thrust – literally — into the driver’s seat. She became an Uber driver, and for several months, was the family’s breadwinner. Ann is among the 14 percent of women across the country who drive for the […]
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Joshua Ang Price: An Asian in Arkansas
Joshua’s mother Teresita Acervo Ang grew up in Roxas City, Capiz and attended Philippine Women’s University in Manila, where she studied nursing. The Philippines was then under President Marcos’ martial law. While working at Makati Medical Center, Teresita saw tanks and soldiers patrolling the streets. A 9 p.m. curfew was strictly enforced, and there were […]
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246 passengers join PAL’s historic inaugural direct flight to Manila
By Cristina DC Pastor Consul General Claro Cristobal is not a layover kind of guy. A diplomat who has lived out of suitcases, he knows what he wants in his airport and airline. “I don’t like stopovers,” he declared before an audience of travel executives, community leaders, and journalists who attended the recent launch of […]
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Former Marcos estate on Long Island up for auction
By Cristina DC Pastor A mansion that belonged to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and converted into a bed-and-breakfast is up for auction, according to one of the participating brokers. The 8.2-acre waterfront property on 48 Sedgemere Road, Center Moriches in Long Island’s Suffolk County, has a spectacular view of the Moriches Bay, said Corazon Rivera […]
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SPECIAL REPORT: The anatomy of missing PIDCI funds (1st in a series)
By Cristina DC Pastor & Marivir Montebon It began innocently enough. In the mid-winter of 2017, then President Prospero Lim of the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. (PIDCI) went to the bank to check on the organization’s account. It was learned he needed some cash so he could pay the deposit to the Astoria World […]
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Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners among this year’s TOFA honorees
By Cristina DC Pastor A Pulitzer Prize winner and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient are among this year’s distinguished The Outstanding Filipinos in America (TOFA) honorees. Mariel Padilla (Youth category) contributed to The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Pulitzer-Prize winning project, “Seven Days of Heroin,” about the drug epidemic in the Midwest. Vivian Talambiras-Cruz (Community Service) was part […]
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Fiesta in America: ’20 years is worth celebrating’
By Cristina DC Pastor Three generations of the Policarpio family came all the way from Ossining in Upstate New York, and they came early: Eli Policarpio, his mother Leonila, and his 6-year-old son Ezar. There was a threatening thunderstorm, and the family arrived before noon because they wanted to be home before the downpour. Ossining […]
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Tax expert sees long-term growth for PHL economy through BPO, remittances
By Wendell Gaa The Philippines is one of four countries which Derren Joseph calls home. A Managing Partner at the tax consulting firm Hayden T. Joseph & Co., Derren has been delightfully enjoying living and working in the Philippines on-and-off for the past two years now. Every month you can find Derren working out of […]
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Jersey City and General Santos to promote commerce, culture as sister cities
By Cristina DC Pastor What do Jersey City in the U.S. and General Santos City in the Philippines have in common? Aside from both being highly urbanized cities, not much. In our search for some kind of a connection, we find out that J.C. is the birthplace of basketball great Shaquille O’Neal, and GenSan is […]