Should the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) be re-commissioned? This is very similar to the question that the Corazon Aquino administration was faced with 22 years ago, when it had to decide whether to allow the BNPP to commence operations.
Mila E. Valerio’s nine-year living nightmare has finally come to an end. In a decision dated Feb. 3, and received by her lawyer on Feb. 17, Judge Teresa de la Torre Yadao acquitted Valerio of parricide.
That’s the only word I can think of to describe the Senate hearings I watched from my sickbed (more accurately, my sickchair) a couple of days ago. And what I saw made me feel even worse.
All I have are 18 pages of what has to be a more than 124-page document (the last page of what I have is page 124) studded with at least 433 footnotes (the last footnote on page 124 was numbered 433). But what these pages contain is more than enough to convince me that.
Generally, the term “culture of impunity and indifference” is used to describe a situation in which repeated human rights violations elicit very little public reaction or where the public outcry is totally ignored.
If anyone had any doubts about the perception of corruption in the legislature, surely they have now been laid to rest with the news reports that Congress had increased its 2009 pork barrel by more than P2 billion over that of last year’s.
Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and the World Bank’s Control of Corruption Indicator (CCI is one of six dimensions in its World Governance Index) estimate levels of corruption in a country
