Archive for the ‘Benigno Aquino III’ Category

Pres. Aquino slams Corona at 1st National Criminal Justice summit

Following is the speech of President Aquino Monday at the 1st National Criminal Justice Summit where he slammed Chief Justice Renato Corona. I’ll make my commentary later today. Magandang umaga ho. Maupo ho tayong lahat. Ako na ho pala agad. Sana ho hindi ako late. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile; Speaker Sonny Belmonte; honorable members [...]

December 6, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Justice  64 Comments

Sana hindi na mag-apela ang mga kamag-anak ni Pnoy sa Hacienda Luisita

Ang desisyun ng Korte Suprema na ibalik ng mga may-ari ng Hacienda Luisita ang halos 5,000 na ektaryang taniman ng tubo sa Tarlac sa mga magsasaka sa 6,296 na magsasaka ay pagkakataon ni Pangulong Aquino na ituwid ang pagkakamali ng kanyang pamilya, kasama na ang kanyang inang si pangulong Cory Aquino. Ang Hacienda Luisita ay [...]

November 27, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Abante, Benigno Aquino III, Human Rights  4 Comments

Please, no more study groups, Mr. President

It is within the rights of President Aquino to deny the desire of the Marcos family for a state burial for President Ferdinand Marcos. If Aquino thinks that Marcos’ dictatorship nullified the latter’s two-term presidency and disqualified him for a state burial, he is entitled to that opinion. Since Aquino is the president now, his [...]

October 14, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Marcos  51 Comments

Another cabinet member gets away with wang-wang act

While Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs Ronald Llamas is twisting in the wind over the discovery of an AK-47 in his official car used by his bodyguards while he was in Switzerland, another cabinet member did a wang-wang act and got away with it. Last Monday’s column of Antonio Montalvan II in the Philippine Daily [...]

October 11, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Malaya  52 Comments

Buko talk

Much as I’d like to join in the excitement of President Aquino over the interest of American businessmen in coconut water or buko juice, I have my reservations. Upon his arrival from the United States, where he attended the official launch of the Open Government Partnership in New York – an initiative by US President [...]

September 26, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Malaya  65 Comments

Pres. Aquino meets with MILF chair Murad

Related article: PNoy-Murad meet: “a great leap forward” for the peace process By Carolyn O. Arguillas Mindanews GENERAL SANTOS CITY- Now the silence can be explained. President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim shook hands and talked peace for two hours in a hotel in Japan [...]

August 5, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Mindanao, Peace Process  33 Comments

PNoy sells Porsche

From abs-cbnNEWS.com President Benigno Aquino III has sold his third-hand Porsche, one of his personal decisions that many citizens thought was not in sync with his call for good governance and austerity. Aquino said it was security concerns and not the controversy surrounding the luxury vehicle, which he bought second hand, that prompted him to [...]

July 5, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III  64 Comments

Aquino’s first year: The good and the bad

One area where the year-old Aquino government has made reforms, slow it may be, is in the fight against graft and corruption through reforms in the justice system. This is not to say that Aquino has eliminated graft and corruption or there is no graft and corruption being committed by his own appointees. I merely [...]

June 29, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Governance  34 Comments

Robredo no longer ‘acting’ DILG secretary, gets regular appointment from Aquino

After almost a year, President Benigno Aquino III has decided that he can work with Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, whom he is keeping in the Cabinet and to whom he is finally handing over supervision of the Philippine National Police. Last June 13, Aquino issued Robredo, who assumed the post in an [...]

June 27, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Governance, Local government, Philippine National Police  17 Comments

Walang “K” bumanat ang magnanakaw

Ang isang rason bakit pinupuna ko ang mga palpak ni Pangulong Aquino at ng kanyang mga tauhan ay dahil ayaw kong magkakaroon ng oportunidad si Gloria Arroyo na tatawa at magsabing, “Ayan, banat kayo ng banat sa akin. Ano ngayun ang nakuha nyong pumalit sa akin?” At tama nga. Lumabas lang ang survey na bumababa [...]

June 25, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Abante, Benigno Aquino III  29 Comments