Fiat justitia ruat coelum

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo So cliche, but as they say, it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. And so it came to pass that the guilty verdict (20-3) was finally declared and imposed on impeached Chief Justice Renato C. Corona. But there was no allegorical fat lady singing before the curtains fell and the lights went out. There was no mysterious singing “small lady” either that would upstage her. It was the blindfolded...

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Force majeure or horse manure?

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo “Ano? Ano ba ’yan!” was a priest’s exclamation when I asked him what he thought of some Catholic bishops celebrating novena Masses at the Supreme Court, a sign of support for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona. The priest had just come from out of town and was not aware of what was going on in the last stretch of the impeachment trial. Another priest texted me to say that he would not want Masses used to counter the novena Masses in the Supreme Court. None of that sort, he said, let them...

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Long-term access solutions for cancer patients

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo What access do/can cancer patients, survivors and conquerors have to long-term health care? What can they expect from government agencies, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), health care providers and health practitioners? What access solutions are in place and what are not? These issues were tackled at the recent “Oncology Future Trends Forum,” a high-level discussion on developing long-term access solutions for Filipino cancer patients/survivors/conquerors. At the workshop were top...

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Corona in-laws speak up

Philippine Daily Inquirer/NEWS/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo ‘Why were we not asked to bid for BGEI?’ When some members of the family of the late Mario Basa discussed whether they should come out of the shadows and speak about what they knew then and knew now about Basa-Guidote Enterprises Inc. (BGEI) assets, someone from the younger generation piped in with the saying: “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” The BGEI assets are the subject of scrutiny...

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Conversations with Sr. Flor Maria Basa FMM

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo I wrote this column piece in advance. By the time this piece comes out I would just have emerged from a retreat in a Trappist abbey on an island somewhere. I am presuming that my series on Sr. Flor Maria Basa FMM came out in the Inquirer a few days ago when the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona resumed after a break of more than one month. (It did come out on May 5 and...

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Basa-Guidote heir speaks truth to power

Philippine Daily Inquirer/SPECIAL REPORT/Ma. Ceres P. Doyo                                                                                               ...

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Crowns of flowers, thorns for Sr. Flor Maira Basa

Philippine Daily Iniquirer/SPECIAL REPORTS/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo                                                     (First of two parts) Thrust recently into public consciousness because of...

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