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December 13, 2011
Miriam gets ICC seat

 

MANILA, Philippines (Dec 13, 2011) - Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago becomes the first from an Asian developing country to get elected as a  magistrate of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said today that Santiago garnered 79 votes to earn one of the seats in the ICC.

Santiago had said that she would resign as senator if she gets elected to sit as a judge in the ICC.

Santiago, however, clarified in a television interview that she did not have to immediately leave her seat in the Senate.

MANILA, Philippines (Dec 13, 2011) - Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago becomes the first from an Asian developing country to get elected as a  magistrate of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said today that Santiago garnered 79 votes to earn one of the seats in the ICC.

Santiago had said that she would resign as senator if she gets elected to sit as a judge in the ICC.

August 28, 2011
Santiago resorts to ‘cheap shots’ in attack vs. Church

MANILA, August 27, 2011―As the Senate began tackling the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill, top RH proponent Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago herself was not above making what she had described as “cheap shots.”

MANILA, August 27, 2011―As the Senate began tackling the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill, top RH proponent Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago herself was not above making what she had described as “cheap shots.”

In an apparent attempt to undermine Church authority on the moral aspects of family and life, Santiago – a self-proclaimed theologian who studied at an ultra-liberal theology school in Quezon City – resurrected old charges long refuted by Catholic apologetics.

July 14, 2011
Montero is Pajero, "devil's money" is people's money

The bishops came out cleaner from yesterday's Senate hearing, but maybe only enough to allow them to restart with clean slate in their relationship with the government and, more importantly, the Filipino people.

The bishops came out cleaner from yesterday's Senate hearing, but maybe only enough to allow them to restart with clean slate in their relationship with the government and, more importantly, the Filipino people.

Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos' humble admission of some "lapse of judgement" in requesting for a vehicle from former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a courageous act borne out of deep reflection.

June 8, 2011
ARMM poll postponed as House concurs with Senate

MANILA, Philippines (June 8 2011) - There shall be no elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on August 8 as it was effectively postponed when the of House of Representatives voted last night to accept Senate amendments to its postponement bill.

MANILA, Philippines (June 8 2011) - There shall be no elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on August 8 as it was effectively postponed when the of House of Representatives voted last night to accept Senate amendments to its postponement bill.

In moving to accept the Senate-proposed amendments, House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II said this would make a bicameral conference superfluous and thus shorten the process of enacting the bill.

May 8, 2011
Former Senator Noynoy, 7 Others Pork-free in 2009

MANILA, Philippines (May 7, 2011) - A Department of Budget and Management (DBM) report reveals that in 2009 President Benigno Aquino III, then a senator, and seven others saved the government P1.6 billion by not availing of their yearly pork barrel allocation amounting to P200-million each.

MANILA, Philippines (May 7, 2011) - A Department of Budget and Management (DBM) report reveals that in 2009 President Benigno Aquino III, then a senator, and seven others saved the government P1.6 billion by not availing of their yearly pork barrel allocation amounting to P200-million each.

Other Senate members who joined P-Noy in refusing to partake of the annual “pork” in the said year were Panfilo Lacson, Joker Arroyo, Francis Escudero, Mar Roxas, Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Antonio Trillanes IV, and Manuel Villar Jr.