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If attentive observers of the developments at the Senate impeachment court are appalled to discover that Chief Justice Renato Corona and his wife enjoyed VIP perks from Philippine Airlines while the company had a case pending at the Supreme Court, and are naturally eager to learn more, what are they to make of a ruling by the court rejecting the PAL executive presented by the prosecution to testify on the matter? Would they not be wondering why someone who can credibly be described as a competent witness would be deemed irrelevant to the case?
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Editorial | Read More »
By: Conrado de Quiros
Someone asked me why I’ve thrown my support behind P-Noy’s public indictment of Renato Corona and call for the people to voice their sentiments through some kind of People Power when there’s an impeachment going on.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By: Randy David
Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, calls on the faithful in our predominantly Christian nation to perform acts of kindness and sacrifice for the less fortunate. They are the poor who are forced to live with little hope in our highly unequal society. They are the sick singled out by fate to suffer a slow debilitating death. Or they may be the momentarily needy, forced by circumstances to turn to friends, kin and strangers for help. The call to selfless kindness is one of humanity’s hardest tests.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo
It is supposed to be a win-win situation, with both the United States and the Philippine governments benefiting from it, but most of all, the Filipino-American Medicare beneficiaries who have contributed heard-earned money.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By: Nuelene N. Gallos
It has been 11 years since then, and that dream is still a dream. In 2010, I took the Law Aptitude Exam (LAE) of the University of the Philippines College of Law and flunked it. I was not really expecting to pass it given my mediocre grades. But somehow, I hoped for a miracle, for me to make it to the Top 200.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By: Rigoberto Tiglao
That President Benigno Aquino III ordered the theft of Chief Justice Renato Corona’s bank records has emerged as a distinct possibility if it was in fact an Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) operative who procured the documents.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
A closer scrutiny of Republic Act 6426 would reveal that not all dollar accounts in a bank are covered by its secrecy provision as found in Section 8 thereof—“Secrecy Of Foreign Currency Deposits.” Note, that this secrecy provision only mentions “Deposits.” Hence, in applying the legal maxim “Expressio unius est exclusion alterius (the express mention of one person, thing or consequence implies the exclusion of all others), other bank accounts that are not in the nature of deposits are deemed excluded from the protection of this particular provision.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
In two CCTV videos of separate incidents in just the past few months, buses speeding along the South Superhighway in heavy rain were shown beginning to skid out of control even while traveling in a straight line without braking or turning. In the first incident, the conductor narrated how the bus “seemed to be blown sideways by the wind.” In the second incident involving a JAC Liner, the operator explained that their drivers had just undergone a retraining course, and the accident was “only because the road was slippery.”
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
This is in reaction to the rantings and ravings of Miriam Santiago at the impeachment trial. When she took a private prosecutor to task and engaged him in what she termed a “colloquy,” little did anyone realize she meant to do a soliloquy and expected everyone to keep their mouth shut. For the irrepressible senator loves talking to and listening to herself so much she probably thinks she is the only person she can have a sane and intelligent conversation with. Thus, when the prosecutor tried to butt in, he should have seen it coming: “How dare you argue with me!”
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
“After the developments during the past days and weeks I realized that my credibility has been diminished and that it is no longer possible for me to perform the job as president.”
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
So, are those Philippine Savings Bank documents really fake? Annabelle Tiongson, the PSBank Katipunan branch manager who shook the impeachment court days ago by claiming that papers relating to Chief Justice Renato Corona’s deposits that the prosecution had submitted to the court were fraudulent, has lately qualified her statements a bit. It “seems fake,” she said at one point during her appearance last Monday. “In banking parlance, if it’s different from the original, it’s fake,” she hedged at another.
Posted: February 21st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Editorial,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By: Neal H. Cruz
Former Sen. Nene Pimentel spoke his mind on a number of subjects at the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday, foremost of which was the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. Then the Senate president, Pimentel was one of the two presiding officers (the other was Chief Justice Hilario Davide) during the impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada.
Posted: February 21st, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
