Photos I took from this morning’s march from the Makati courthouse to the Manila Peninsula Hotel:
Making life worth living.
Photos I took from this morning’s march from the Makati courthouse to the Manila Peninsula Hotel:
It’s tense here inside the Manila Peninsula Hotel. We’re staying put even after National Capital Region police chief Geary Barias ordered the evacuation of the…
Here are the details of the Oakwood Agreement posted on Sundalo:
The following are the terms of the Oakwood Agreement, which was approved by the so-called Magdalo soldiers and the government represented by Gen. Roy Cimatu (Ret.):
Only the five (5) leaders named will suffer the consequences of the actions of the whole group at Oakwood. The five (5) are: Cpt Gary Alejano PN(M), Cpt Gerardo Gambala PA, Cpt Milo Maestrecampo PA, LTSG James Layug PN and LTSG Antonio Trillanes IV. All the rest shall only be admonished under the provisions of AW 105. There will be an independent investigation on the status of RSBS. There will be an independent investigation on the selling of arms and ammunition to the enemies of the state. There will be an independent investigation on the bombings in Davao and other areas in Mindanao. There will be an independent investigation on the extent of corruption in the AFP.
Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim read the following statement in a press conference he and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV held at the Manila Peninsula Hotel:
Today, we address all decent Filipinos to announce that now is the time to end the sufferings and miseries inflicted upon us by the illegitimate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo government and start a new life, a new Philippines. The die is cast pursuant to our constitutional mandate as protector of the people and state.
And by these acts the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police supported by the masses of our people and the various political forces give substance to the constitutional provisions which says the Philippines is a democratic and republican state.
It was about 10:30 in the morning when the Makati regional trial court resumed hearing the charges against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and 30 other Magdalo officers for their role in the so-called “Oakwood Mutiny” on July 27, 2003.
Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, chief of the First Scout Ranger Regiment, was on the witness stand. He had been summoned to testify on the “Oakwood Agreement” that was forged with the government.
Lim said under the agreement, only five leaders of the supposed mutiny would be charged and the rest would be admonished.
Sana mapanood ng aking mga kababayan doon sa Antique ang nangyari kay Marilou Ranario at hindi na sila makukumahog papuntahin ang mga anak nilang babae sa Middle East para pumasok na domestic helper.
Si Marilou ay 33-taong gulang Pinay na nakakulong sa Kuwait dahil sa pagpatay ng kanyang amo. Nagawa ni marilou ang krimen dahil siya ay minamaltrato, hindi binabayaran ng kanyang suweldo at gusto pang ibenta siya ibang lalaki.
Si Marilou ay titser na taga Surigao del Norte at may dalawang anak. Katulad ng marami sa ating mga kababayan, kahirapan ang tumulak sa kanya mamasukan sa Kuwai noong 2003.
On the eve of Brig. Gen. Danny Lim’s appearance at the Makati Regional Court hearing (Nov. 29, Thursday, 9 a.m.) on the so-called Oakwood mutiny in July 2003 by the Magdalo officers, two statements were posted at the Sundalo website.
One is this statement by “Para sa Bayan”:
We presently find in existence a dangerous concept where the armed forces now owe their primary allegiance and loyalty to those who temporarily exercise the authority of the executive branch of the government rather than to the country and the Constitution they have sworn to protect.
Carmen Guerrero Nakpil never disappoints.
The second volume of her memoirs “Legends & Adventures” (post-war, 1946-1983) is as absorbing and engaging as the first, “Myself, Elsewhere” set in pre-war Manila.
Narrating her life as a journalist, Mrs. Nakpil gives a glimpse of the good old days of Philippine journalism: “What I enjoyed about my newspaper job was being in the thick of things. I did not grasp, until I became a journalist how cloistered, how impossibly recondite, my incarceration in Ermita had been.
The Great Performance Series sponsored by the Philippine American Life Insurance Company and Manila Pavilion Hotel will close with the Manila debut of world-acclaimed classical…
by Dennis Gadil
Sen. Manuel Roxas II yesterday took over the presidency of the Liberal Party with the promise of leading the once dominant party to victory in 2010.
Roxas was overwhelmingly elected to a three-year term by the LP executive council after an hour-long, closed-door session at the Club Filipino in San Juan.
He was given “blanket authority” to appoint the party’s officers and reorganize the party starting November 30.