Blacktown Arts Centre is proud to announce the first recipients of its 2012 Performing Arts Residencies. “The Elephant in Manila Zoo? is a collaborative project by writer Martin Ponferrada and performers Valerie Berry and Felino Dolloso, to be in residence at the Blacktown Arts Centre from 7th May. The script explores political corruption in the […]
Category: Community
MPC: The Impossible Dream
So much has been said and written about the Filipino Multi-Purpose Centre which is better known as the MPC. Members of the Board of Trustees, The Filipino Australian Community Foundation (PACF) now refer to it as the Philippine Australian Community Centre (PACC), apparently to disassociate the Schofields property from the former MPC in Rooty Hill […]
Multi-Purpose Centre exposed
Things the PACF Board doesn’t want people to know After an extensive research has been made, Philippine Sentinel is now ready to make an exposé of things that the PACF (Philippine Australian Community Foundation), has kept from the public eye. PACF is the trustee of the Filipino Multi-Purpose Centre (MPC) originally situated along Duke Street […]
Bicol Inc. Chairman bares 4-point platform
Ross Iglesia, newly elected chairman of Bicol Inc. bares his plans for his term of office:
Bicol Inc. comelec rules in favor of Soliman’s protest
March 2012. Blacktown NSW . This year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bicol Inc. was characterized by fireworks. The controversy arose from the validity of ballots cast by 22 new members who were allegedly recruited by another candidate outside of the prescribed period mandated by Bicol Inc.’s constitution.
‘Ugnayan’ Forum tackles MPC and other community issues by Marco Selorio, PRO, PCC-NSW
Sydney, Australia – March 9, 2012 . The Ugnayan Forum, a community initiative of PCC-NSW, was held last Sunday at the P-Noy Lounge in Blacktown and graced by the presence of over fifty Filipino leaders, community members, PCC affiliates and media. Quite evident during Ugnayan was the networking and fellowship amongst the community leaders who […]
Media Room at the Philippine Australian Cultural Centre
Mr. Jaime Pimentel, a respected senior journalist said: “If you must know, even after torrential rains and overflow at Warragamba Dam that spilled onto Richmond Bridge close by, there was not even a small puddle at the ‘Campo Bonifacio’ compound. Not even the creek nearby had overflowed.” He was referring to the site of MPC […]
PHCAA decides to join PCC
In a meeting held at the Crystal Seafood Restaurant in Westpoint Blacktown, members of the board of Philippine Health Care Association of Australia (PHCAA) decided that the association will join the Philippine Community Council (PCC-NSW). PHCAA has been in existence for 7 years in Australia. It has undertaken several medical missions in the Philippines and […]
Simply Unbelievable by Benjie de Ubago
It was the Bicol Inc’s turn to have their annual general meeting and elections. The organization prides itself as moving the seat of power on a fair rotational basis among the Bicol provinces. This year, after doing a complete round of all the provinces, it was Albay’s turn. And vying for the two representative seats […]
PCC-NSW responds to Pimentel
This is in response to Jimmy Pimentel’s article on PCC/PACF. The Philippine Community Council of NSW has been an ex-officio member of the PACF Board since 2003. I categorically deny, on behalf of the PCC Board, that there is any desire or intention of PCC to take over the management of PACF as Mr. Pimentel […]
Pimentel Should Walk The Talk Too
Mr. Pimentel’s recent attack on PCC provided a comparison of PCC and the MPC or PACF as it is now called. It would have been best if Mr. Pimentel listened to his own advice of “walk the talk” and also did a little sweating and/or did the out of pocket trick before he made the […]
Many inaccuracies in Pimentel’s “Opinion Piece” comment by Kate Andres
I was the president of PCC-NSW during the 2005 State Visit of President Fidel Ramos to Australia. A Steering Committee was established, composed of presidents/heads of community associations (PCC non-affiliates included) to organise the community meeting with President Ramos on 19 August 1995. Jess Diaz (then FILCCA President) and myself as incumbent president of PCC-NSW […]