JPE’s Memoir, is a narration of political events that bedevil the nation beginning 1924, when a poor boy, Juanito Furagganan, JPE’s childhood name, was born in barrio Mission in the town of Gonzaga, a sandy, coastal, fishing village situated at the mouth of the Mission River, Cagayan, up to the historical impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona of…
Recurring political images in the Philipines: ROLSON RODRIGUEZ, a barangay chairman of Sto. Domingo, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental was found guilty of dishonesty and oppression. He was dismissed from the service and stripped with all his retirement benefits and civil service eligibilities. DELSA M. FLORES, court interpreter of a regional trial court of Davao received from the municipality of Panabo the…
After almost 3 hours of ‘privileged speech’ CJ Corona wishes to be excused. He does not need the permission of the presiding officer, Juan Ponce Enrile to do that, after all, he is the chief justice! Delivering his monologue, with curt admonitions from the Presiding Officer, Corona was transported into his own world of privileged,…
Dateline: Maui, Hawaii, 3:00 P.M. May 3, 2012 I filed this report 3 hours after touchdown at Kahului Airport, Maui — Where do the dollars of CJ Renato Corona could have come from? The issue of whether he has dollar accounts, had already been settled after the PSBank President testified before the IC that the chief magistrate…
The Lord always works in some mysterious ways. Who would ever think that a very innocuous corporation set up in 1961 as Basa-Guidote Enterprises, Inc., (BGEI) one owner of which, now a 90 year old nun, would come to haunt the Chief Justice in 2012? This tale started in early 1990, when Mrs. Corona was accused by her relatives…
The tables are turned. Defense counsel for CJ Justice Corona presented Congressman Tobias Tiangco on March 12, 2012 to prove that the articles of impeachment filed by the house against the jurist was flawed because it was impossible for the 188 congressmen to have read the complaint before affixing their signatures thereat and if ever they signed the…
Impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona reported in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALNs) in 2003 and 2004 that he had obtained an P11-million cash advance from Basa-Guidote Enterprise Inc. (BGEI). The alleged loan has turned media attention to BGEI, the company established in 1961 by the family of the Chief Justice’s wife,…
Senator Miriam Santiago is intellectually dishonest, and a bad mouth too. But she is a very lucky damsel — she can spew the most blatant legal rubbish on the floor of the Senate and afterwards savors her ignorant bliss in her seat massaging her vanity thinking perhaps that among the Senators assembled, she was the only one…
For Senator Bongbong Marcos to say that his father was a hero and not a thief and that his last heroic act was his restraint in not ordering the massacre of the civilians massed at EDSA 1, in February 1986 is but normal of a son and a politician. In his eyes his father is an all-time hero; and as…
Was Jose Maria Basa, the father of Jose Maria Basa III and Asuncion Basa, a patriot or a scoundrel? If he was a scoundrel does that character trait inherited by her daughter Asuncion Basa, which in turn inherited by Asuncion’s daughter, Cristina Roco Corona, the wife of the embattled chief justice? Was this bad gene…
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