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Bronx nurse deployed to Afghanistan to help in transition period
By Cristina DC Pastor Nurse Analiza Benjamin is currently serving in Afghanistan as a health care mentor, a job description that brings her in “direct contact” with the Afghan National Army. A reserve officer of the U.S. Navy with the rank of captain, Analiza is one of more than 30,000 coalition forces keeping peace in […]
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Imelda Marcos doesn’t live here anymore
By Cristina DC Pastor With charm and graciousness, Consul General Mario de Leon Jr. and his wife Eleanor welcomed guests to their Upper East Side townhouse, located in a neighborhood known for its genteel, pre-war condos and elegant shops. It was the recent Evening with the Consul General, a traditional Christmas dinner where he opens […]
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FILAMSPEAK: ‘Aloha, Sen. Daniel Inouye; we won’t forget’
Filipino Americans mourned the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye, war hero and a revered Asian American member of Congress. The senator from Hawaii died December 17th from a respiratory ailment at the age of 88. He was laid to rest on Sunday in Hawaii. In the FilAm community, Inouye is remembered in awe and with […]
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Devoted family man is a gun owner
By Cristina DC Pastor Let me introduce Art Tadiar (not his real name), hardworking health care employee, devoted family man, proud Filipino American and unabashed gun owner. Art, a Virginia resident, has something in common with Newtown, Conn. shooter Adam Lanza: a Glock hand gun. But while Lanza may have used this weapon to kill […]
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Grace Grande: Modern-day concubine
By Cristina DC Pastor It’s been five years since Grace Grande left her common-law husband – a well-connected politician from Cagayan Valley – to make a new life for herself and their two boys in Los Angeles. But while she thought leaving the Philippines would put an end to her misery, it created more problems, […]
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What the Church failed to do: Kill bill
By Ludy A. Ongkeko, Ph.D. Sadly, and it has been traced to almost 14 years since, the passage of the Reproduction Health Bill (RH) in the Philippines has been one of defiance and obstruction by the “Bishops.” The “Bishops” is the term ascribed to representatives of the Catholic Church in that island archipelago who […]
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg lobs one-liners at media party
By Elton Lugay Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on December 6th that evening would be his last holiday party for the media, his last time to “curry favor with the press.” Not unless, he quickly quipped, there is a “C4.” With a sardonic smile, the 108th mayor of New York cracked joke after joke at the […]
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Amb. Cuisia reminds U.S. to act on plight of 24K veterans
As the country commemorates Veterans Day, Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. paid tribute to Filipino and American veterans and expressed hope the U.S. would act soon on the plight of more than 24,000 Filipino veterans who were disqualified from the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund program. “With the elections over, we are hoping that the […]
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Analyze him: Barack Obama called ‘narcissistic’ in new book
‘Change We Deserve’ By Luz Martin, MD Tate Publishing November 2012 Philippine-born psychiatrist and neurologist Luz M. Martin has published a book released in time for the Nov. 6 elections. “Change We Deserve” is an indictment of President Barack Obama’s policies as well as his personality. The author discuses Obama’s “defense mechanisms, his narcissism, his […]