One does not have to be a lawyer to understand that if there’s is no offense, there is no trial.
As Frank Chavez, counsel for Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, puts it simply to the panel presiding in the court martial of the 28 officers who allegedly planned to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo in February 2006, “That’s common sense, Your Honor.”
by Yvonne Chua and Luz Rimban
Vera Files
(First of two parts)
When public high school sophomores get the new Social Studies textbook next week, they will be holding in their hands what could be a source of a diplomatic irritant: the book mentions Taiwan as a “country” separate from the People’s Republic of China, in violation of the one-China policy which the Philippine government upholds.
Ang drama ngayon ni Gloria Arroyo ay “legacy” daw- and ipamana niyang pangmatagalan sa sambayanang Pilipino.
Kaya nandiyan yung mga proposal ng kanyang mga alagad na dagdag raw sa sahod, ibaba raw ang kuryente, libreng text at kung ano-ano pang pakulo na sa isip niya ay makamasa. Akala naman niya naloloko niya ang taumbayan.
Ang gusto niyang palabasin ay talagang bababa na siya sa 2010 at hindi na niya ipagpipilit ang charter change. Gusto raw nila maala-ala siya ng taumbayan sa mga magandang bagay.
Last Friday, at the forum organized by the Concerned Citizens Group at the Manila Polo Club last Friday, UP students who are active in the…
We see that the International Monetary Fund is standing four-square behind the government’s refusal to scrap the value added tax on oil and, by extension, on power rates, and sticking to providing direct support to the poor in this time of surging prices.
Government’s refusal to scrap the VAT on oil is based on the simple fact that revenues continue to lag behind spending. It needs the money and it is loathe to lose any source of revenues. We have this suspicion the purported direct transfers to help the poor cope with rising prices of food and other necessities are but an after-the-fact rationalization.
By Joel Guinto
Inquirer
Court martial proceedings for the 28 officers accused of an alleged February 2006 coup plot on Friday were deadlocked on whether or not the lesser charges against the group have prescribed and should be dropped.
I was reading an analysis “The Philippines:Counter-insurgency vs Counter-terrorism in Mindanao” when news of an explosion in Zamboanga City came in.
Two persons were confirmed dead while 23 others were injured. Investigators were looking at the possibility that Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants were involved in the attack.
The analysis I’m reading was precisely warning about this situation. It said that the Philippines is mixing up counter-insurgency with counter-terrorism “with dangerous implications for conflict in the region”.
Mukhang maayos itong si Leila de Lima, ang bagong chair ng Commission on Human Rights. Sana mabigyan ng katapat na aksyon ang kanyang mga sinasabi.
by Ashzel Hachero
Malaya
Reporter Alvin Elchico of ABS-CBN and a close friend and townmate of one of the Magdalo leaders, former Army Capt. Milo Maestrecampo, took the witness stand for the defense Tuesday and said he never heard the soldiers holed up at Oakwood hotel talk of any plan to take over the government or attack their fellow soldiers who had been ranged against them.
The soldiers led by detained senator Antonio Trillanes are being tried for coup d’etat at the Makati regional trial court.
He would have wanted to hold her hand “for moral support” as she was being wheeled to the operating room.