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By DUCKY PAREDES MALAYA ‘Must all these issues of propriety, transparency and accountability be forgotten?’ With just two days left in the calendar for the 15th Congress, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile resigned the Senate Presidency “as a matter of personal honor and dignity. “Old age may have physically impaired my vision. But let me assure all of you, I can still see and read clearly Read More …
Below is the full text of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s privilege speech on June 5, 2013, the last day of the Senate session day of the Senate. My colleagues, the officers and employees of the Philippine Senate, my countrymen: The COMELEC has proclaimed the 12 winners of the senatorial race in the elections held last May 13. From the slate called “Team PNoy”, nine Read More …
By Marvin Sy The Philippine Star Jinggoy heads Senate for a day MANILA, Philippines – Saying he had seen the handwriting on the wall, Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile resigned yesterday as Senate president, ending a leadership marked both by brilliance and turbulence. With just two days left in the calendar for the 15th Congress, Enrile tendered his irrevocable resignation as Senate president “as a matter Read More …
By Karl Malakunas Gulf Times Another Benigno Aquino is set to become one of the Philippines’ most powerful politicians next week thanks to his name, part of what analysts warn is an increasingly destructive system of dynastic rule. The 36-year-old nephew and namesake of the current president is one of the front-runners to be elected to the Senate in mid-term elections, with many other favourites Read More …
By NESTOR MATA MALAYA ‘President Noynoy Aquino’s version of that historic event 37 years ago contradicted that of former President Fidel V. Ramos…’ PRESIDENT Noynoy Aquino called the historic event at EDSA 27 years ago, improperly, a “revolution,” while former President Fidel V. Ramos, one of the triumvirs in the movement that led to the downfall of the Marcos dictatorship, correctly named it the “people Read More …
By Mike Frialde The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Twenty-seven years after the people power revolution brought down a dictatorship, the Philippines has not been freed from the ills of authoritarian rule, one of the heroes of the revolt said yesterday. “Today, 27 years later… the greed, the apathy, the cronyism and the corruption we brought down at EDSA during those four days are still Read More …
GLIMPSES By Jose Ma. Montelibano When the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution removed a dictator, it was not only the physical Ferdinand Marcos that Filipinos sought to get rid of, it was also what he represented. Much has been said of his brilliance as a lawyer, his journey to political greatness, his brand of leadership. Yet, great power in the hands of a person without Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star This early we’re seeing cracks in the UNA (United Democratic Alliance) organization. Their act of making such a big fuss about the three “adopted” senatorial candidates — Loren Legarda, Chiz Escudero and Grace Poe — strikes most folks as the whining of a kid whose candy was taken. Why can’t UNA accept the 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 …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz The recent scandal involving the “cash gifts” – or, bonuses – given by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile to 18 senators has brought to the forefront of debate the very existence of the Philippine Senate as a productive legislative body. Has it outlived its usefulness? But even its “usefulness” in the past is now being questioned! Yes, it has gotten that Read More …