Geronimo: The Crux of Article II
PERHAPS, now that more than a dozen days have elapsed and almost everything that could be said have been said about Article II of the Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Renato C. Corora, it is appropriate for us onlookers, so as not to lose sight of the forest by reason of being too...
Bunye: Dealing with holiday debt
HAVE you experienced the classic "holiday debt hangover"?
The Financial Consumer Affairs Group (FCAG) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said this type of hangover is usually experienced during the months following the Yuletide season -- when the shopping, parties and gift-giving have...
Geronimo: The horrible style of Article II
THE heading of Article II of the Impeachment Complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona, in all caps and in bold, states: "RESPONDENT COMMITTED CULPABLE VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND/OR BETRAYED THE PUBLIC TRUST WHEN HE FAILED TO DISCLOSE TO THE PUBLIC HIS STATEMENT OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES...
Bunye: New year financial resolutions
IT IS almost the end of January—and only eleven more months until we make a new set of New Year’s Resolutions. How time flies indeed!
So have you made your own list of “financial” resolutions yet? If you haven’t, you still have time to do so.
Geronimo: Viva Vidal
SUPREME Court Clerk of Court, lawyer Enriqueta Esguerra Vidal, deserves everyone’s congratulations and the country’s gratitude. She demonstrated last January 18th during her testimony before the impeachment court trying the case against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona that she was, in the manner...
Bunye: The BSP’s Bottom Line
THE business pages of last week’s newspapers carried articles about the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) posting a net loss of P23.62 billion in the first three quarters of 2011.
Geronimo: Betrayal of Public Trust - Views from the High Court
LOOKING to the decisions so far rendered by the Supreme Court to shed light on the meaning of “betrayal of public trust”, as a ground for impeachment, is not very encouraging. Despite the many cases mentioning the phrase, no decision can be pointed to that fixes its precise metes and bounds...
Geronimo: Betrayal of Public Trust - the framers' intent
SEVEN of the eight articles of impeachment filed against Chief Justice Corona cite as basis "betrayal of public trust". What exactly is "betrayal of public trust"?
Geronimo: En Garde, Grim Reaper
THE loudest noise I could make last New Year's Eve, I directed at the Grim Reaper. Not because at age past retirement, I had, in fact, began to see, as Douglas McArthur termed it, the “deepening shadows of life”. But rather, because the Grim Reaper, for the year 2011, had been doing his thing...
Geronimo: A modern manger of Bethlehem
IT SEEMED like one of the fictional vignettes in the ancient collection of birth narratives of Matthew or Luke. But no, this one is from a contemporary chronicler, the International Herald Tribune, and, I have no reason to believe otherwise, in fact true.
Bunye: Were there banks during the time of Jesus?
YULETIDE is undeniably the busiest time of the year.
You know that ‘tis the season when the lines are unusually long at the banks and at the automated teller machines: People are extra generous with their earnings and buy gifts for their family, friends and colleagues in the spirit of...
Geronimo: The Fallen Star of David
HE DESCENDED like a shooting star, initially seemingly very slowly approaching according to some preordained trajectory, then soon enough gathering speed upon entry into the atmosphere, and finally as it appeared to be touching the mountain peaks, burning out and exiting the evening stage as...
Bunye: Jose Rizal Commemorative Coin
IT IS a gift befitting a hero of his stature.
For his 150th birth anniversary, our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal received a special gift in the form of the one-piso commemorative Rizal coin.
Geronimo: Confusion amongst Ongpin’s minions
THEY were running like chicken without heads. Because, I suspect, their head was not around to give them direction and orchestrate their specific spiels.
Bunye: ‘Money laundering’ at the BSP
THERE is some sort of money laundering taking place at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. But it’s not of the criminal kind.
Geronimo: Cracks in DBP's defensive wall
NOVEMBER 14 which was when, at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee's and Committee on Banks' joint hearing on Development Bank of the Philippines' questionable transactions subject of Senate Resolution No. 555 filed by Senator Panfilo Lacson, former DBP President Rey David was left by his erstwhile...
Bunye: A new Guinness record for longest line of coins
THERE is a line from an old poem that goes: “Little drops of water...make the mighty ocean.”
Geronimo: Fragile Friendship Based on Business
REYNALDO G. David must have been a very sad man last 14 November 2011. On national television, David unabashedly sang peans about his friend, Roberto V. Ongpin, in the course of his testimony at the joint hearings of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and Committee on Banks and Other Financial...
Bunye: Exercising care when using your ATM card
EVER heard of the term “shoulder surfing”?
No, it does not have anything to do with the water or the sport. However, it has everything to do with safety precautions during the festive season which thieves normally take advantage off.
Bunye: BSP’s painting collection
EARLIER this year, I wrote about the BSP’s Painting Collection, which art curators in the country have described as “formidable”.
Ramon E.S. Lerma, Curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery, said that in terms of size and historical breadth, the BSP Painting Collection rivals that of any museum...
Geronimo: Two friends and Two Rivers
ONE would have thought they were Damon and Phythias; Roberto V. Ongpin and Rey G. David, based on their public statements, were indeed the best of friends; unthinkable, even for a fleeting moment, that one would desert the other, even when the going gets rough and the rough gets going.
Bunye: A girl named Arizza
DEVOTION knows no age.
For her awe-inspiring role in building libraries and countering the culture of guns with books and education in Mindanao, 17-year-old Arizza Ann Sahi Nocum recently received an award from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the National...
Geronimo: What makes insider trading wrong?
THAT the Honourable Roberto V. Ongpin went out of his way to take out a paid advertisement in a major broadsheet last October 13 in order to deny the accusation that he had engaged in “insider trading” when he bought, over time, and then sold to Manny Pangilinan in one shot his block of Philex...
Bunye: Helping save the environment
THIS is proof that government agencies can serve the Filipino people and the environment at the same time.
Geronimo: Sanction against Securities Misbehavior
FOOLING around with the securities market is dangerous for a fool’s legal health. The policy of the State, as stated in Section 2 of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC), is to “establish a socially conscious, free market that regulates itself, encourage the widest participation of ownership in...
