Yano Yan Ay - How Corona and wife were stopped from leaving “Are you arresting me?” Chief Justice Renato C. Corona asked Senate sergeant at arms Jose Balajadia Jr. during a brief standoff triggered by Corona’s sudden exit from the impeachment court at past 5 p.m. on Tuesday. In an interview Wednesday, Balajadia recounted the bedlam that broke out after Corona’s three-hour testimony on Day 40 of his impeachment trial. Navy monitors 79 Chinese boats near shoal MANILA, Philippines - China has now deployed close to a hundred vessels within Philippine territorial waters 124 nautical miles from mainland Zambales, further heightening the territorial row in the area, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday. Reports from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) forwarded to the DFA showed that at present, there are already five Chinese vessels within the vicinity of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal on top of 16 Chinese fishing boats that have deployed 56 utility boats for their ongoing fishing operations. Leave Shoal, PH Tells China MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has demanded anew that Chinese vessels immediately pull out from Panatag (Bajo de Masinloc or Scarborough) Shoal and the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). It also asked China to refrain from taking further actions that exacerbate the situation in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) made the demand after receiving reports from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) that there is an increasing number and pattern of Chinese government vessels and fishing boats in the disputed area. Basa children take up cudgels for their father Children of Jose Maria Basa III, uncle of Chief Justice Renato Corona’s wife Cristina, on Wednesday said they wanted to continue their father’s quest for justice in the bitter dispute with the Coronas over inherited properties. “We are ready and willing to argue this in front of the appropriate courts and to continue our late father’s fight for justice,” Carmen Basa said at a press conference. Drilon: Defense team disintegrating; Cuevas wanted Roy cited for contempt Senator Franklin Drilon on Thursday claimed Chief Justice Renato Corona's legal team is having serious internal problems, saying lead defense counsel Serafin Cuevas even wanted fellow defense lawyer and spokesman Judd Roy III cited for contempt. "Indeed the defense team was disintegrating.... There were apparently differences among them which has made him [Cuevas] submit to the chief justice his resignation," Drilon said during a weekly forum at the Senate. Cuevas: Corona certain to appear at the Senate on Friday Impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona is certain to appear Friday at the Senate sitting as the impeachment court, defense lead counsel Serafin Cuevas said Thursday. A report on GMA News' "Balitanghali" quoted Cuevas as saying that he was able to convince Corona – who is in the intensive care unit (ICU) at The Medical City in Pasig City – to show up at the Senate. Manuel Pangilinan, Ramon Ang unveil expressway link project MANILA, Philippines - Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC)’s Manuel Pangilinan and San Miguel Corp. (SMC) president Ramon Ang unveiled before President Aquino yesterday the proposed P45-billion project to connect the North and South Luzon Expressways (NLEX and SLEX). Construction is set to begin late this year. Happy-go-lucky’ woman confesses to killing her 2 kids BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A 24-year-old mother has confessed to killing her two children, both female toddlers, last Monday and hiding their bodies in a sugarcane field in Hinigaran town, Negros Occidental, police said. The suspect identified as Mira Lacson, 24, was arrested by the police the next day and was detained at the Hinigaran police station. (Or how you can blow your case to smithereens and shoot yourself in the foot in one fell swoop). f the Senate impeachment court somehow manages to acquit Chief Justice Renato Corona after what transpired in court on May 22, you can bet your last centavo that the Filipino people will be up in arms against the senator-judges. Sadly Corona’s timing to throw the equivalent of a temper tantrum could not have been worse. He did it on live television on a day when most Filipinos who were anxious to hear what he had to say were glued to their TV sets. Sitting on the witness stand Corona ended his hours-long monologue with the words “and now the Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines wishes to be excused,” folded his notes and walked out of the hearing—his wife Christina Corona by his side. The sheer arrogance of that act caught everyone by surprise, not the least of which was the impeachment trial’s presiding officer, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile who, in what could be his brightest shining moment of the entire trial, ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to block all exits and bring Corona back into the court.Like his alleged benefactor, for President Gloria Arroyo, Corona reappeared in court around 20 minutes later, in a wheelchair, in shirtsleeves, looking disheveled, and appearing medicated. His defense team argued that being diabetic, their client was suffering from Hypoglycemia and could no longer continue on the witness stand.Corona, it must be noted, spent the greater part of two hours reading a prepared statement that Enrile magnanimously allowed him to read, over the protestations of the Prosecution team. But in the end it became abundantly clear that Corona simply wished to hurl accusations at his opponents but had no intention to allow himself to be cross-examined—the highest judicial officer in the land believed he was answerable to no one. Whoever advised Corona on this stunt could have likely been a “double agent,” a plant from the Prosecution. But if Corona planned that stunt on his own, then all-the-more he should resign posthaste as only an idiot would think he could get away with it—an idiot or a Pinoy belonging to the country’s arrogant ruling class. In light of what transpired in court Tuesday, how can Corona remain Chief Justice for even another day? It would be heart wrenching if the Philippines were forced to continue with a chief magistrate of this caliber because in all honesty, the country can do much better. What Corona needs to do is step up to the microphone and repeat these words: “and now the Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines wishes to resign.” Published 5/23/2012

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Jose Balajadia Jr. How Corona and wife were stopped from leaving
“Are you arresting me?” Chief Justice Renato C. Corona asked Senate sergeant at arms Jose Balajadia Jr. during a brief standoff triggered by Corona’s sudden exit from the impeachment court at past 5 p.m. on Tuesday. In an interview Wednesday, Balajadia recounted the bedlam that broke out after Corona’s three-hour testimony on Day 40 of his impeachment trial.

Navy monitors 79 Chinese boats near shoal
MANILA, Philippines - China has now deployed close to a hundred vessels within Philippine territorial waters 124 nautical miles from mainland Zambales, further heightening the territorial row in the area, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday. Reports from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) forwarded to the DFA showed that at present, there are already five Chinese vessels within the vicinity of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal on top of 16 Chinese fishing boats that have deployed 56 utility boats for their ongoing fishing operations.

Leave Shoal, PH Tells China
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has demanded anew that Chinese vessels immediately pull out from Panatag (Bajo de Masinloc or Scarborough) Shoal and the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). It also asked China to refrain from taking further actions that exacerbate the situation in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) made the demand after receiving reports from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) that there is an increasing number and pattern of Chinese government vessels and fishing boats in the disputed area.

Basa siblings: Carmen, Eric, Ana, Francesca Basa children take up cudgels for their father
Children of Jose Maria Basa III, uncle of Chief Justice Renato Corona’s wife Cristina, on Wednesday said they wanted to continue their father’s quest for justice in the bitter dispute with the Coronas over inherited properties. “We are ready and willing to argue this in front of the appropriate courts and to continue our late father’s fight for justice,” Carmen Basa said at a press conference.

Drilon: Defense team disintegrating; Cuevas wanted Roy cited for contempt
Senator Franklin Drilon on Thursday claimed Chief Justice Renato Corona's legal team is having serious internal problems, saying lead defense counsel Serafin Cuevas even wanted fellow defense lawyer and spokesman Judd Roy III cited for contempt. "Indeed the defense team was disintegrating.... There were apparently differences among them which has made him [Cuevas] submit to the chief justice his resignation," Drilon said during a weekly forum at the Senate.

Cuevas: Corona certain to appear at the Senate on Friday
Impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona is certain to appear Friday at the Senate sitting as the impeachment court, defense lead counsel Serafin Cuevas said Thursday. A report on GMA News' "Balitanghali" quoted Cuevas as saying that he was able to convince Corona – who is in the intensive care unit (ICU) at The Medical City in Pasig City – to show up at the Senate.

Manuel Pangilinan & Ramon Ang Manuel Pangilinan, Ramon Ang unveil expressway link project
MANILA, Philippines - Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC)’s Manuel Pangilinan and San Miguel Corp. (SMC) president Ramon Ang unveiled before President Aquino yesterday the proposed P45-billion project to connect the North and South Luzon Expressways (NLEX and SLEX). Construction is set to begin late this year.

Happy-go-lucky’ woman confesses to killing her 2 kids
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A 24-year-old mother has confessed to killing her two children, both female toddlers, last Monday and hiding their bodies in a sugarcane field in Hinigaran town, Negros Occidental, police said. The suspect identified as Mira Lacson, 24, was arrested by the police the next day and was detained at the Hinigaran police station.

The CJ Corona Trial: Impeachments Are Definitely More “Fun” in the Philippines!

(Or how you can blow your case to smithereens and shoot yourself in the foot in one fell swoop).

f the Senate impeachment court somehow manages to acquit Chief Justice Renato Corona after what transpired in court on May 22, In shirtsleeves, seating on a wheelchair, looking distraught and disheveled, the head of the Philippine Judiciary quietly listens to Senate-President Enrile's admonishment you can bet your last centavo that the Filipino people will be up in arms against the senator-judges. Sadly Corona’s timing to throw the equivalent of a temper tantrum could not have been worse. He did it on live television on a day when most Filipinos who were anxious to hear what he had to say were glued to their TV sets. Sitting on the witness stand Corona ended his hours-long monologue with the words “and now the Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines wishes to be excused,” folded his notes and walked out of the hearing—his wife Christina Corona by his side. The sheer arrogance of that act caught everyone by surprise, not the least of which was the impeachment trial’s presiding officer, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile who, in what could be his brightest shining moment of the entire trial, ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to block all exits and bring Corona back into the court.

Like his alleged benefactor, for President Gloria Arroyo, Corona reappeared in court around 20 minutes later, in a wheelchair, in shirtsleeves, looking disheveled, During his three-hour opening statement on the witness stand Corona hurled accusations as well as challenges at many of his detractors and appearing medicated. His defense team argued that being diabetic, their client was suffering from Hypoglycemia and could no longer continue on the witness stand.

Corona, it must be noted, spent the greater part of two hours reading a prepared statement that Enrile magnanimously allowed him to read, over the protestations of the Prosecution team. But in the end it became abundantly clear that Corona simply wished to hurl accusations at his opponents but had no intention to allow himself to be cross-examined—the highest judicial officer in the land believed he was answerable to no one.

Whoever advised Corona on this stunt could have likely been a “double agent,” a plant from the Prosecution. But if Corona planned that stunt on his own, then all-the-more he should resign posthaste A Hypoglycemia attach or an attack of arrogance? The Filipino public will have all the time to figure out what really happened as only an idiot would think he could get away with it—an idiot or a Pinoy belonging to the country’s arrogant ruling class.

In light of what transpired in court Tuesday, how can Corona remain Chief Justice for even another day? It would be heart wrenching if the Philippines were forced to continue with a chief magistrate of this caliber because in all honesty, the country can do much better. What Corona needs to do is step up to the microphone and repeat these words: “and now the Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines wishes to resign.” Published 5/23/2012

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