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PerryScope By Perry Diaz The day before Election Day, the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) proclaimed Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay as its candidate for President in 2016. Now that’s what you call preemptory move against anyone who might be toying with the idea of running for president. At UNA’s final rally – “miting de avance” – in Tondo, Manila, last May 10, Binay was Read More …
Frankly Speaking By Frank Wenceslao When Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chairman Andy Bautista was reported he’d conduct preliminary investigation of Imee Marcos’ reported bank account in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a haven of hot money of foreign leaders who looted national treasuries, a Pamusa supporter in Manila sent me newspaper clippings with a note to expect PCGG’s abolition soon. Bautista has shown Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Last February 12, the Senate race began between President Benigno “PNoy” Aquino III’s handpicked candidates and the opposition Three Kings’ handpicked candidates. PNoy’s Liberal Party-led coalition of candidates from five different political parties were proclaimed at Plaza Miranda in Manila while the Three Kings’ United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidates were proclaimed in Cebu City. Each slate has 12 candidates. At stake Read More …
By Kate McGeown BBC News, Philippines Imelda Marcos: a name synonymous with wealth, greed and excess. During her husband’s 20 years as Philippine president, she amassed a huge collection of art, jewellery, property and – most famously – at least 1,000 pairs of shoes. Paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Rafael and Michelangelo; palatial homes in the US and the Philippines; silver tableware, gold necklaces, Read More …
By AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘It is not the expense. It is the fact that the PCGG cannot produce the goods to prove the guilt of Marcos and his family in the other cases.’ Andres Bautista, chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, declared that pursuing half of the $10 billion worth of alleged stolen assets of Ferdinand Marcos and his family should be Read More …
By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times The late Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos so skillfully squirreled away billions in national wealth that, even 26 years after his ouster, those pursuing recovery of the ill-gotten bounty have little inkling of its true value. There may be more than $60 billion salted away in offshore accounts or secret jungle hideouts. Stories have circulated for decades, some documented Read More …
AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. Ocampo The Philippine Star One can understand Andres Bautista’s deep frustration in wanting to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which he has headed since October 2010, although — or because — it has failed to accomplish its two-pronged mandate, 27 years after President Cory Aquino created the PCGG through Executive Order No. 1. The mandate: to recover Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine STAR When we were marking the 40th anniversary of the declaration of martial law last September 21, there were many who expressed their concern that Filipinos – most of them born after martial law had ended – do not know what the country underwent during the Marcos dictatorship. The sight of Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Read More …
Source: Hawaii Politics and Government A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday (Oct. 24) ruled that Imelda Marcos and Ferdinand “Bonbong” Marcos Jr. must pay a $354 million fine after violating a court order to freeze their assets. The fine regards payment to victims of human rights abuse under the dictatorship of the late Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos. The three judge Ninth Read More …
By Angie M. Rosales The Daily Tribune A poor grasp of parliamentary process was how Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III described what is causing Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV to wildly lash out at his colleagues in the Senate over a bill that sought to divide Camarines Sur into two provinces, this time implicating Sotto and Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada in the alleged Read More …