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FilAms urged to join the Jersey City police force
Jersey City Mayor Steven M. Fulop and Council President Rolando Lavarro, Jr. are launching a Jersey City Minority Police Recruitment Drive on August 23rd in a bid to bring in bring in more officers into the police force who come from immigrant communities. “We have made a commitment to expanding and enhancing our Jersey City […]
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Remembering the heroism that returned democracy to the PHL
By Antero Martinez After 30 years, the next generation of Filipinos continues to enjoy democracy and freedom all because of that fateful date: August 21, 1983. The community remembered Benigno Aquino’s 30th death anniversary with a solemn offering of flowers and a flag raising at the Benigno Aquino Triangle in Hollis, Queens. Aquino spent seven […]
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For this Jersey teen, Janet Napoles should go to jail just like Bernie Madoff
By Megan Villarin First and foremost, Janet Lim Napoles should receive the punishment she deserves. The same for those who benefited personally from this scandal. They should be placed in prison and their wealth confiscated to compensate for some of the loss of funds. She is one of many business people in the world who […]
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Outrage over pork barrel: Are we seeing another EDSA?
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. From our homeland to North America’s shores, what has been denounced incessantly as a humongous reported scam — derived from taxpayers’ funds direly needed by the country’s length and breadth supposedly to be received through legislators from both houses of Congress — has emerged as a scandal of scandalous proportions […]
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Rights group accuses Aquino gov’t of violating Dutch activist’s right to free expression
By Carlos Conde Thomas van Beersum, a 20-year-old Dutch citizen, was about to board his flight Tuesday (August 6) morning back to the Netherlands when the Philippine Bureau of Immigration stopped him and detained him for the next 30 hours at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. Officially, his crime was overstaying his visa, […]
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‘We will fight the bully’
By Elton Lugay About 150 Filipino Americans mostly wearing yellow shirts gathered at the United Nations headquarters on First Avenue to protest China’s incursions in Philippine waters and vowed never to stop “fighting the bully.” Community organizer Steven Raga said, “I’m from here in New York not the Philippines. I grew up here with Chinese […]
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A Kapihan brew of politics, opera and grandmotherhood with Loida Nicolas Lewis
By Cristina DC Pastor Loida Nicolas Lewis will always be known as that millionaire matriarch, perhaps the most recognizable Filipino face in America. Hers is the an inspiring presence to some, a source of unease to others maybe because some of us are still aspiring to what she has already accomplished. When the Filipino American […]
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DCG Tess Dizon-de Vega bids community ‘till we meet again’
By Cristina DC Pastor Deputy Consul General Tess Dizon de Vega’s hashtag says as much: #pinoygoodbyeslastalifetime. It seems DCG Tess has been saying goodbye for a thousandth time. One ‘despedida’ party after another since word got around she was ending her New York assignment to become chief of staff of Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario […]
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Time to ‘unfreeze’ the law and make Reproductive Health available to women
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. July 9 is the first day the Philippine Supreme Court will begin to hear oral arguments on Law 10354, also known as the Reproductive Health law. The High Tribunal, voting 10-5, issued a temporary restraining order on the implementation of the law. Recalling what has taken place since the RH […]