At Large
The Sabah card
By Rina Jimenez-DavidI don’t know what it is exactly that Sultan Jamalul Kiram III hopes to accomplish by telling his followers to “stay put” in Lahad Datu in Sabah to “reclaim their ancestral homeland.”
I don’t know what it is exactly that Sultan Jamalul Kiram III hopes to accomplish by telling his followers to “stay put” in Lahad Datu in Sabah to “reclaim their ancestral homeland.”
The Supreme Court decision on Tuesday reaffirming its ruling of November 2011, ordering the redistribution of Hacienda Luisita owned by President Aquino’s family to more than 6,000 farm workers and fixing the compensation for the sugar estate at P196 million on 1989 prices has been described as a “litmus test” of the resolve of the administration to implement the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program launched by the President’s mother, Cory Aquino, in 1987.
The decision of the Supreme Court on Hacienda Luisita was announced on Tuesday, April 24. As of this writing (Friday, April 27), the decision has yet to be promulgated. My information is that the discussion of the high court en banc on Tuesday needed to be properly reflected in both the majority decision and in the dissenting opinions, and so some amount of rewriting had to be done. Plus, of course, the signatures of all 14 participating justices (Associate Justice Tony Carpio inhibited himself) have to be affixed. Which is why the delay, and why it still hasn’t been uploaded onto the Supreme Court website.
