Posts Tagged ‘Renato Corona’

Corona’s out of office, what to do next?

by xarki, on Mon, Jun 18 2012 | No Comments

courtesy of article.wn.comIt’s already been weeks since Chief Justice Corona was ousted from office of the Judiciary Department after receiving a “guilty” conviction on the country’s controversial impeachment trial.

 

Many of us have thought that the judgment will take longer than expected, yet a 45-month duration has successfully concluded the court case. A lot of things have transpired during this historic event making an essential experience for everyone in the government and for the rest of the nation.

 

Though we were a lot entertained with the heightened episodes as the court proceedings reached its last leg, many are still pondering. So the chief justice was impeached, what to do now?

 

The government is up until this moment, diligent to find us the next commendable head to run the judiciary branch. Speculations suggest that the next chief justice could come out of the current roster of the Supreme Court, which most professional counsels have expressed that doing so is unorthodox yet plausible.

 

Other than scrutinizing every detail for the eligibility of the succeeding chief justice, it has awakened the awareness of the public about the laws of state and somehow enlightened us that many of our public servants are possible to have the same misgivings as that of the ejected Corona. The impeachment should have marked and served as a stepping stone for the search for truth and honesty among the people in the government as we are all aware that our nation’s administration has contributed to the world’s corruption. I hope it is just not another reason to keep our current leader’s ratings high and nothing more than just good publicity. I suppose we had enough of the fault-finding and time to keep up with the needs of the people.

 

Soon a new chief justice will take the seat but for the majority of the public, a systematic and honest public organization is what we always hope for. We can impeach everyone but when will it ever stop?

Senator Santiago: highly intelligent or shrewd lunatic?

by xarki, on Fri, Mar 16 2012 | 1 Comment

courtesy of keywordspeak.comIt has been more than a month since the senate trial court started the case to find reason for Chief Justice Renato Corona to be impeached out of the Judicial Department. Throughout the course of the presentation of witnesses and evidences that may serve as grounds for the chief justice’s impeachment, many people have witnessed a number of surprising events inside the senate court. Moreover, Honorable Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s presence has made the impeachment trial more interesting to the viewing public.

 

The Madame Senator has long been known for her adeptness in the playful usage of terms in every statement she delivers. She is considered to be one of the highly intelligent individual in the world of politics and has garnered so much appreciation even outside the country as she was accepted to be part of the International Court as one of the presiding judges.

 

The presence of Senator Santiago in CJ Corona’s case has always been the most awaited part of the trial and never will you be bored with the statements she throws at the trial proceedings, although it seems to be more as a diatribe against the impulsive prosecutors of the case.

 

Her recent controversial encounter with (volunteer) private prosecutor Vitaliano Aguirre II has caught a lot of attention especially from the TV viewers. It seems that the Filipino’s sympathy is divided between the two personas; Aguirre for having the right to cover his tired ears from the Senator’s ear deafening harangue; Senator Santiago for telling the truth about the unpreparedness of the prosecution panel.

 

Recently, the Madame Senator is again on the hot seat after using an “unnecessary dub” in addressing the prosecution panel. Her madness has brought her to a point where most people are no longer entertained on her public display of intelligence. Even the church regarded to her as “worthy of the fires of hell.”

 

Nevertheless, I can still consider the honorable senator as being frank to what she’s obviously seeing in court. And it seems that there’s so much time wasted in fault-finding that should instead be appropriately consumed to address the immediate needs of the common Filipino.

Unusual marketing for the Bellagio

by xarki, on Mon, Feb 6 2012 | No Comments

courtesy of newsinfo.inquirer.netChief Justice Renato Corona’s impeachment trial is one of the greatest turning points in Philippine history. This is the first trial to ever put a Supreme Court chief justice in question. Also it is regarded as the primary trial done by senator judges in our country- the reason why the whole nation is all eyes and ears to the developments of this legal proceeding.

 

One of the controversial issues being thrown at Corona is the ownership of a penthouse unit on one of the prestigious condos in Taguig – the Bellagio I. The Corona spouses were questioned about their capacity to purchase such a million peso space which has consequently forced them to produce documents that will negate the prosecution’s claims.

 

Their SALN (Statement of Assets and Liabilities Networth) has shown that they may have not declared the ownership and purchase of this property so this can be used against them for another possible case of tax evasion.

 

For several days, the impeachment trial has focused on the issue of Corona’s questionable ownership of this expensive property that has called upon the testimonies of the corporate people in the realty business who has sold the unit to the family particularly Megaworld. Numerous discounts whatsoever have been presented as proof by its Business Marketing CEO as to the acquisition of the said condo unit though many are still in doubt on the present answers.

 

As the impeachment case seems to be a promising long term TV show, CJ Corona’s penthouse unit in Bellagio I can be seen with more than hundreds of people taking pictures of the 38-floor condo space.

 

The developers and marketing firm of the Bellagio should now be more than thankful to CJ Corona for paving the way of advertising their now famed residential tower. Definitely the price of the Bellagio units will go up considerably.