Monthly Archives for February 2012
Aquino continues to play blind to Naguiat’s culpability
President Aquino misses the point in the Wynn Resorts controversy when he reduced it into just losing one prospective investor. Aquino said he won’t lose sleep if Wynn, whose intra-corporate fight with his partner, Kazuo Okada, exposed the bribes showered … Continue reading
Questions on Aquino’s clearance of Naguiat
President Aquino immediately cleared his classmate and friend Cristino Naguiat Jr of allegations by Wynn Resorts that he was the recipient of of the generosity of his former friend and partner Kazuo Okada. Click here for Wynn’ suit vs Okada … Continue reading
A life in the day of Juan Ponce Enrile
By Bibeth Orteza Philippine Daily Inquirer (Editor’s Note: The author set out to observe a day in the life of her husband’s uncle, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, as he presides over what is one of the most important trials … Continue reading
Pagbigay kapangyarihan sa may kapansanan
Photos by Mario Ignacio, VERA Files Maraming kahanga-hangang personalidad ang aking nakilala nitong nakaraang dalawang araw sa orientation at training na ginawa ng VERA Files sa pag-uulat tungkol sa mga taong may kapansanan (Reporting on Persons with Disabilities) na ginanap … Continue reading
JPE as we celebrate EDSA 26
As we celebrate the 26th anniversary of EDSA One, the Filipinos’ show of People Power, I look at Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile and can’t help but be amazed by how he has participated in the different phases of the Filipino … Continue reading
Missing
The fact that retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan has not been arrested two months after the Malolos Regional Trial Court issued a warrant of arrest for him for the 2006 disappearance of UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno and … Continue reading
Inip na sa ending ang taumbayan
Kapag impeachment ni Chief Justice Renato Corona ang pinaguusapan, ang tanong ng karamihan ay, “Maku-convict ba si Corona?” Inip na sa ending ang mga tao. Sa aming baryo sa Guisijan sa Antique, marami ang sumusunod ng Corona impeachment trial.Sa mga … Continue reading
Who is the better fictionist?
Just when we were getting excited by another set of accounts by Chief Justice Renato Corona with the Philippine Savings Bank, Katipunan branch, totaling some P36 million which were withdrawn on Dec. 12, 2012, the day the House of Representatives … Continue reading
Why is Malacañang vouching for authenticity of ‘fake’ bank document?
Why is Malacañang vouching for the authenticity of the documents supposedly on the bank accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona at the Philippine Savings Bank submitted by the prosecution to the impeachment court? That document, which PSB Katipunan branch manager … Continue reading
Corona to prosecution: You did not have any iota of evidence against me when you filed the impeachment complaint.
Press statement of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona: Throughout my public career, I have never been involved in any anomaly or scandal. Whatever assets my wife and I have acquired are products of 45 years of toil and honest work. … Continue reading
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