Archive for September, 2005

THE private law firm that helped draft the amended impeachment complaint against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has finally filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court today seeking to nullify the House of Representatives' plenary decision last...

September 23, 2005 · Posted in: Governance, In the News

Six more named to Con-Com

SIX more members of the Consultative Commission on charter change have been named, as the group prepares to meet this afternoon. The incoming members are:  1. Brother Rolando Dizon, director-at-large, Catholic Educational Association of the...

THIRTY-three individuals have been named by Malacañang to the Consultative Commission that will submit to Congress its recommendations for amendments to the 1987 Constitution, principally the shift from the presidential-unitary system to a...

September 21, 2005 · Posted in: In the News

The fall guy refuses to sing

AFTER two hours of intensive grilling which yielded a lot of befuddlement and no clear answers, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales Jr. was cited for contempt by the Senate and kept in detention under the custody of the Senate sergeant of arms. At...

September 21, 2005 · Posted in: In the News

Telling the truth and getting away with it

HAYDEE Yorac will be given a hero's burial tomorrow at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. A resolution unanimously approved by the Senate yesterday paved the way for Yorac's interment at the cemetery otherwise reserved for military personnel and government...

September 20, 2005 · Posted in: In the News, Investigative Reports

Gloria’s Lobbygate?

THE PCIJ's latest report — Gloria's Lobbygate? Government Splurges Millions on Multiple, Secret Lobby Contracts — is a follow-up to our report last week exposing the $75,000-monthly contract entered into by the Philippine government with the...

ALL hopes for a "Lazarus act" harbored by congressmen seeking to resurrect the impeachment complaint against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo were completely dashed when the House of Representatives, which resumed its regular session today,...