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AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. Ocampo The Philippine Star As we wind up 2011, we find some grounds to be guardedly optimistic that in 2012 our people’s long-hobbled quest for justice can gain momentum on two fronts: against graft and corruption in high places, and against impunity from wanton human rights violations. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been arrested for the non-bailable electoral sabotage Read More …
Like It Is Peter Wallace Manila Standard Today First of two parts You only respect an institution if it deserves respect, you do not respect it of itself. An institution is made up of men and women so is only as good as those men and women are. As this report shows the Philippine court system is severely dysfunctional. It’s quite simply, a mess. I Read More …
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc The Philippine Star Former Armed Forces comptroller General Carlos Garcia can soon rejoin his family in America. This, after the Sandiganbayan upheld Monday his plea bargain from P303-million plunder to lesser offenses. Sentencing would be mere formality. Garcia need not serve any minute longer behind bars. He has been out since December on P30,000 bail for each of two misdemeanors, for Read More …
by Ina Reformina ABS-CBN News MANILA, Philippines – Barely 3 days after Merceditas Gutierrez stepped down from the Office of the Ombudsman, militant farmers groups and fisherfolk filed a criminal complaint against her – the first since she stepped down from office – before the Department of Justice (DOJ) for inaction and delays in prosecuting those responsible for the P728-million fertilizer fund scam. In a Read More …
By Gerry Albert Corpuz and Gloria Madonna Velarde ALLVOICES MANILA, Philippines-For former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, life begins at 40, figuratively and literally because former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez junked all 40 reports on the fertilizer fund scam to save her presidency during her term. In vain attempt to save former President and now Rep. Arroyo and other government officials implicated in the controversial P 728-million fertilizer Read More …
To Take A Stand By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr. BusinessWorld The resignation statement of the ombudsman would have drawn credulity, sympathy, and esteem had it been made by a brilliant, erudite but humble and deferential person. But because the statement was made by Ms. Merceditas Gutierrez, it drew mockery, pity, and greater contempt. The statement must have been prepared by one of her obsequious underlings Read More …
CITIZEN Y By Yoly Villanueva-Ong The Philippine Star After months of global and local upheavals, natural and man-made disasters, political and economic meltdowns – the light finally pierced through the darkness, with a spate of good news for a change. What a welcome respite from recent depressing developments, most of which could not be controlled. They say good news comes in threes, but more poured Read More …
SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH By Ernesto M. Maceda The Philippine Star Global Integrity, a Washington based business think tank, has reported that out of a high of 100 percent, the Philippines received a “very weak”, a very low rating of 57 percent, down from 71 percent in 2007 in its anti-corruption campaign. Global Integrity noted that the significant decrease to a “very weak” rating is Read More …
By Gloria Madonna Velarde and Gerry Albert Corpuz ALLVOICES MANILA, Philippines- Two of the groups who filed plunder and other criminal and administrative charges against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and other government officials before the Office of the Ombudsman announced on Friday that they would file graft and obstruction of justice charges next week against outgoing Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez before the office of the Department Read More …