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Segue to a different life - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - April 16, 2000 - 12:00am

I have received numerous comments about my recent appointment, some solicited, most unsolicited, but all of them highly appreciated. Some congratulate me. Others, genuinely concerned about that fabled "snakepit"...

Small waists and new lifestyles - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - April 9, 2000 - 12:00am

The really tough part about PNP Director General Ping Lacson's directive on 34-inch waistlines and physical fitness standards is not so much the crash diets and exercise programs some fat cops have to undergo...

Laying the predicate - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - April 6, 2000 - 12:00am

Objectively speaking, Senate Minority Leader Tito Guingona's call for the resignation of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada was what you might call, rhetorically, a case of premature ejaculation. Put another way,...

Coup rumors - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - April 4, 2000 - 12:00am

One of the bogus text messages many of us received this last weekend, apart from that terribly cruel one about the supposed death of Pope John Paul II, had to do with an imaginary takeover of Malacañang...

Payumo on Subic smuggling - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - April 2, 2000 - 12:00am

That recent seizure by the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Task Force Aduana of seven container vans containing allegedly smuggled goods has taken a new twist. The shipments had been released from the Subic Bay Freeport...

Smuggling at Subic - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 30, 2000 - 12:00am

We shouldn't jump to conclusions, of course, and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. But one would have to be pretty naïve if he were to characterize that seizure of seven 40-foot container...

Laquian's contributions - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 26, 2000 - 12:00am

Former Presidential Chief of Staff Prod Laquian has flown back to Vancouver, Canada and, by now, should be back in the bosom of a sympathetic family awaiting the birth of a second grandchild.

Post-Prod - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 23, 2000 - 12:00am

When I welcomed the guests to last Tuesday's Manila Overseas Press Club Forum, I didn't know it would be the last public appearance of Presidential Chief of Staff Aprodicio Laquian in that capacity. Neither,...

Not quite a Bar scandal - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 21, 2000 - 12:00am

Every time a "bar scandal" breaks out, the legal profession dies a little. Naturally, there will be calls for a hastening of the extinction of the species, echoing that character in Shakespeare who proposed that...

Mount Olympus under attack - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 19, 2000 - 12:00am

The speech of Associate Justice Artemio V. Panganiban at the recent Judiciary Night of the Manila Overseas Press Club drew a lot of attention, but perhaps not entirely to the aspect he would have wanted. Mount...

Once again, Mike Defensor - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 14, 2000 - 12:00am

This story, it would seem, just won't go away. But, on second thought, there really may be good reasons why we should stay with it. So, let's! The latest development is that Representative Mike Defensor is reportedly...

Rethinking CAFGU - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 9, 2000 - 12:00am

The proposal to reactivate 35,000 Civilian Armed Forces and Geographical Units (CAFGU) cannot be dismissed solely on the basis of possible human rights abuses that might be committed by these militiamen. Yes,...

Lipo: Last resort of fat cops - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - March 5, 2000 - 12:00am

In terms of ruthlessness, this latest directive of PNP chief Panfilo Lacson tops them all! Forget the campaign against cops using carnapped but surrendered cars. Forget the drive against kotong cops, or cops...

Staying the course - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 27, 2000 - 12:00am

Some might say that this is evidence of some demolition groups trying to ensure that the discredited Stratfor prediction plays itself out. That mysterious group, after all, had predicted that President Joseph...

No battlefield here - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 24, 2000 - 12:00am

One newspaper (not The STAR) recently tried to stoke the fires of an allegedly raging battle between Tourism Secretary Gemma Cruz-Araneta and Senator Loren Legarda over the nation's tourism programs. Gemma was...

Urquico is not Manero - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 20, 2000 - 12:00am

The case of the grant of absolute pardon to convicted kidnapper Benigno Urquico is vastly different from the conditional pardon given to Fr. Tullio Favali's killer, Norberto Manero, Jr. Urquico's case is also clearly...

One born every minute - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 17, 2000 - 12:00am

The 69-page investigation report submitted by the Compliance and Surveillance Group of the Philippine Stock Exchange basically confirms what the whole town had already known from leaks of an earlier preliminary...

The coming garbage crisis - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 15, 2000 - 12:00am

I guess I could write about a lot of things today, this being Valentine's Day. Maybe an essay on the meaning of love. Or, I could continue to harass the Philippine Stock Exchange which, as I write, is still dilly-dallying...

Stock market at the crossroads - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 13, 2000 - 12:00am

There are no two ways about this. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange must come clean with a full, unedited, unembellished report about what really happened in those BW Resource Corporation...

Collision course? - My Viewpoint

by by Ricardo V. Puno - February 8, 2000 - 12:00am

Unless President Erap Estrada is a magician of the first water, the proposed triumvirate composed of the Executive Secretary, the head of the Presidential Management Staff and, now, the Chief of Staff will result...

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