Kudos to The Filipino Reporter, the leading Filipino newspaper in the tri-state area, for focusing on the mess created by the GSIS in its eCard enrollment program in the United States.
Edmund Silvestre, veteran news editor of The Reporter who cut his teeth in journalism as a broadcast journalist with IBC 13 in Manila in the '90s, has done a superb job of shining the flashlight on the New York City mess that occurred on March 9.
If not for his reporting, the ugly episode would have otherwise joined a long list of unconscionable and easily forgotten failures of the GSIS, which is being run to the ground by an incompetent chairman in the person of one Winston Garcia -- at the expense of the pensioners.
Readers of the March 16-22, 2007 issue of The Reporter will agree that there was no excuse whatsoever for the GSIS mishandling of the heavy influx of pensioners to the Consulate.
I picked up my copy of The Reporter at a popular bakery in Jersey City. I wanted to buy more but there were only two copies left just two days after it first hit newsstands on Friday, March 16.
