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Fr. Shay Cullen’s columns are published in The Manila Times, in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line) There is a great hunger in the world. It is a hunger for justice. There is a famine of justice and they who hunger and thirst for it are rarely satisfied. But on 26 April, 2012, a historical landmark judgment at the International Criminal Court Read More …
By Edu Punay The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan can no longer leave the country after a Malolos City regional trial court (RTC) in Bulacan issued yesterday a hold departure order (HDO) against him following his indictment for the disappearance of University of the Philippines student activists Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño in 2006. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima Read More …
VIEWPOINTS By Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz The Daily Tribune In these interesting as well as disturbing times, it could be in order for the Filipinos in particular, to know or recall, to remember or observe the following objective realities about the nature and implications of justice: Justice is for everyone or for nobody at all. Perfect! Justice knows no party. Great! Justice is the only Read More …
Corporate Watch By Amelia H.C. Ylagan BusinessWorld “Maguindanao massacre trial could take 55,000 years,” a front page headline screamed for the intended shock effect. In simple arithmetic on convoluted logic, private prosecutor Harry Roque computed 196 defendants facing 57 cases each equals 11,172 cases, times 5 years trial per case equals 55,000 years. Stop the salivating — defendants and lawyers may not live for 20 Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star Our society is stuck with an “Exemption to the rule” mindset. Given the opportunity, many Filipinos would rather be accorded the right to be exempted from the rule than be compelled to follow it. Seen as an elite privilege, even the bottom rank in our socio-economic ladder would like to savor the cheap Read More …
By Jess Diaz The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s husband yesterday protested the decision of the police to deny her access to a mobile phone or computer once she is transferred to the Veterans Memorial Center (VMMC) in Quezon City. “Why is the government trying to isolate and cut off CGMA’s (Rep. Arroyo’s) communication line with the outside world as if Read More …
She’ll occupy suite that Estrada did during plunder trial BY ASHZEL HACHERO MALAYA THE Pasay City regional trial court handling the electoral sabotage complaint against Rep. Gloria Arroyo yesterday ordered her transfer to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City in five days. The former president has been staying the past two weeks at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City after failing Read More …
“P50K Per Favorable Story Dangled Over Media” By Artemio A. Dumlao BAGUIO CITY — Families of the dreaded Maguindanao massacre were offered P25 million each for their withdrawal. “That sum of money is tempting especially that most of those killed journalists were bread winners,” Rowena Paraan, executive director of the International Federation of Justice Media Safety Office in the Philippines said ahead of Wednesday’s second Read More …
Streetwise By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo BusinessWorld Forces in the Philippine political landscape are gearing up for a major legal and political battle. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband’s attempts to leave the country and escape the proverbial long arm of the law, ironically by utilizing a favorable Supreme Court order, were foiled by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and Comelec Commissioner Brilliantes by means of Read More …
BABE’S EYE VIEW By Babe Romualdez The Philippine Star The tug-of-war regarding the Supreme Court’s issuance of a temporary restraining order that would have allowed the former first couple to travel is one of the most dramatic episodes that has ever happened in this country. The Tuesday night media frenzy at the NAIA opened a floodgate of debates and legal questions — all of which Read More …