‘From a Distance’ Archives
ETA-AIR now in Region 8
Eagle Trans-Asia Airways (ETA-AIR) is the newest airline to operate in Region 8. To reduce the long and stressful travel by land or sea, ETA-AIR introduces new means of transportation by air to provinces that are presently accessible by land or sea travel only. Most of its routes are not yet serve by other airlines in the Philippines. The Eagle Trans-Asia Airways mission is to provide passengers and cargo charterer with superb airline service at competition rate and taking into account the [...]
PAL for sale
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is known to have serious financial problems. The cost of the FASAP decision of the high court will be in the neighborhood of P2 Billion. Then there is the matter of re-fleeting that has assured some element of urgency with the announcement of Cebu Pacific that they will launch long haul flights to cities where there is strong demand from the Filipino community. Cebu Pacific made the announcement in anticipation of being able to recover our Category 1 status with the US [...]
The bank secrecy law
The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona featured the battle over the secrecy of dollar accounts in PS Bank on the accounts of Corona. The Supreme Court acting on a petition by PS Bank issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the Senate impeachment court from tackling the issue of dollar deposits of Corona. At issue is the Foreign Currency Deposit Act (RA 6426) which provides for absolute confidential nature of foreign currency deposits unless a depositor gives a [...]
The Supreme Court TRO
The Supreme Court has issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on the examination of dollar deposits of Chief Justice Renato Corona at PS Bank Katipunan Branch. The power of the Supreme Court on judicial review applies whether the Senate is acting as a legislature on impeachment court. The Supreme Court issued the TRO upon its expanded power of judicial review in connection with the issue of whether Congress may violate its own law when acting as impeachment court. The Constitution did [...]
The Bureau of Customs
The Bureau of Customs has just observed its 110th Anniversary celebration attended by no less than President P-Noy. P-Noy called on the Bureau of Customs officials to start reforming the agency’s bad record which again came to light following the arrest of a Customs clerk named Paulino Elevado who was driving an expensive Porsche car despite the employee’s monthly salary of only P9,000. The employee was caught chasing the car of a teenager and firing his gun at the car of the [...]
Banco Filipino reopened
This is good news to Banco Filipino depositors! The Court of Appeals ordered the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to reopen Banco Filipino (BF) Savings and Mortgage Bank and to extend to it within 30 days state financial assistance worth more than P25 Billion. The Court ruled that respondents BSP and the Monetary Board (MB) committed grave abuse of discretion and violated Banco Filipino’s right to due process when they implemented MB Resolution 372-A on March 17, 2011 which placed the [...]
The tantrums and Senator-Judge Miriam
Senator-Judge Miriam Defensor Santiago is in her usual self again. In the impeachment trial, she would always display her uncalled for and unjustifiable outburst. She should exercise greater civility in dealing with the lawyers on both sides and the witnesses. Senator-Judge Santiago had shouted and humiliated Private Prosecutor, Atty. Arthur Lim and Congressman Niel Tupas in the course of the impeachment trial. Santiago had demeaned the impeachment process. By not controlling her emotion, [...]
2nd Time Around
Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs, Ronald Llamas, is once again in the headlines. He was spotted buying pirated DVD’s in a Quezon City Mall last week. This incident once again put Llamas on the spot the second time. The first was in keeping several firearms which was exposed in public after 2 of his bodyguards figured in a road accident while Llamas was in Switzerland. Objectively, the act of Llamas is not a “mortal sin”. The Aquino Administration had more important matters [...]
Law Breaker
NBI Director Magtangol Gatdula has been relieved from his post in relation to the kidnapping and extortion of a Japanese national. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said that investigation showed that Gatdula had personal knowledge of the crime and cover-up. Malacañang upheld the findings of the fact-finding team of the Department of Justice (DOJ) recommending the filing of charges against Gatdula and other NBI officials. President Aquino was particularly angry at Gatdula’s insubordination [...]
Pantawid Program reaches 2.3 million beneficiaries
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has assisted not only the needy and poor residents in the country but also thousands of indigent senior citizens nationwide. The DSWD has reached its target of 2.3 million beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4P’s) in 2011. Data from DSWD showed that as of Dec. 23, 2011 there are 2,302,745 registered Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries. The DSWD will receive a budget of P48.9 Billion for the year 2012, a [...]
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