Ten outstanding local government units received the Galing Pook Awards for exemplary programs on health, education, justice, and community building.
Considering that it is still at the committee level, the impeachment complaint against SC Justice Mariano del Castillo won't be elevated by the House of Representatives to the Senate while the impeachment trial against CJ Renato Corona is ongoing.
The prosecution on Tuesday asked the Senate impeachment court to summon the manager of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) to testify on Chief Justice Renato Corona’s bank account.
The Manila Regional Trial Court on Tuesday extended to 20 days the 72-hour temporary restraining order it issued stopping the Department of Justice (DOJ) from proceeding with the investigation on the alleged involvement of dismissed National Bureau of Investigation chief Magtanggol Gatdula in a kidnapping activity.
Megaworld Corporation, the company that sold two posh properties to Chief Justice Renato Corona and his family, on Tuesday said it neither solicited nor obtained any favor from Corona or from the Supreme Court despite the gross discount it gave to the impeached chief magistrate in the purchase of a condominium unit in Taguig City. In his testimony during the day's impeachment trial at the Senate, Megaworld senior vice president for marketing and sales Noli Hernandez told senator-judges that Corona even voted against them in at least two cases, which he said cost them millions of pesos.
Farm workers of Hacienda Luisita on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a request to reconsider its ruling on the distribution of almost 5,000 hectares of the property to some 6,000 farmer-beneficiaries of the government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Former policeman Cezar Mancao II was removed from the Witness Protection Program (WPP) and was turned over to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Tuesday after the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals’ ruling declaring him as an unfit state witness in the Dacer-Corbito murders.
Senator Ralph Recto on Tuesday asked the Senate, sitting as the impeachment court, to allow the defense panel to present evidence after every presentation of evidence of the prosecution on each of the Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Corona.
Presidential political adviser Ronald Llamas on Tuesday denied that he was the one who allegedly pressured the Iglesia Ni Cristo to ask retired Justice Serafin Cuevas to withdraw as the lead counsel of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
A marketing executive from Megaworld Corporation on Tuesday said the firm lowered the price of the condominium unit it sold to Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2008 due to the damage caused to it by a typhoon.