Posts Tagged by renato-corona

Supreme Court nixes President Aquino’s ‘just’ payment plea for Luisita

Luisita Hacienda farmers cheer after Supreme Court announced its decision. Below, a truck loaded with sugar cane.

  BAGUIO CITY-The Supreme Court April 23 rejected the plea of President Benigno Aquino III for  "just compensation" to the Cojuangco and Aquino heirs of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac which… Read More

Impeachment Cliffhanger

By Leandro DD coronel

 By Leandro DD Coronel MANILA The chief justice’s impeachment trial here has put the nation in suspended animation after taking a break as Filipinos observe Lent. The Senate serving as… Read More

Impeachment Blues

J. G. Azarcon, Esq.

By J.G. Azacon, Esq. What promised to be an attention grabbing TV spectacle reminiscent of the impeachment trial of deposed former president Erap Estrada is slowly turning into a tedious and… Read More

Bank Secrecy & Quacking Ducks

By Rodney Jaleco

by Rodney Jaleco The impeachment court in the Philippines is probably one of the few places where a duck isn’t a duck even if it walks and quacks like one.… Read More

Impeachment turns nasty

By Leandro DD coronel

Leandro DD coronel MANILA Chief Justice Renato Corona’s impeachment here has taken a nasty turn. President Benigno Aquino III and Corona have stooped low, calling each other names. In an… Read More

I Will Fight You Until My Last Breath – Corona

CORONA CRYING

[/cation]MANILA – Despite revelations of unexplained ownership of several expensive condominiums and multimillion peso and dollar bank accounts, Chief Justice Renato Corona said he will fight on to the bitter… Read More

Stars of the impeachment

By Leandro DD coronel

MANILA In the continuing impeachment trial here of the country’s Chief Justice, the prosecuting panel has been soundly routed by the courtroom-savvy private lawyers of the defense. It’s been a… Read More

‘I’m willing to face Supreme Court’?Lauro Vizconde

MANILA, Philippines?Lauro Vizconde on Friday said he was willing to face Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona or any high court magistrate who he claimed had knowledge of an internal lobbying effort to acquit Hubert Webb and six others of murdering his wife and two daughters in 1991. ‘If Corona summons me, I’ll be ready,’ Vizconde said he told the high tribunal’s spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez in a… Read More

Palace backs live coverage of Maguindanao massacre trial

BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR –> PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Edwin Lacierda yesterday said President Aquino will write Chief Justice Renato Corona to allow the live coverage of the Maguindanao massacre trial. “I think that will be a helpful direction in the sense that if we do not learn the lessons of the past, we are condemned to repeat the same Read More

Massacre trial speeded up

BY ASHZEL HACHERO THE Quezon city court hearing the multiple murder cases in last year Read More