Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile disapproves of pressing the Sabah claim at this time. Enrile said in an interview that his father’s law firm had served as adviser to the American government in the Philippines before World War II and the country’s independence on the Sulu sultanate’s claim to Sabah.
Furiously fending off accusations of doling out public funds to Senate colleagues as if the money were his to give as “Christmas gifts,” Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile now also stands accused of pirating intellectual property.
This is the story of my life, the story of Juanito Furagganan’s better angel, the story of Juanito Ponce’s Super-ego, the story of yours truly, Juan Ponce Enrile’s conscience.
The pages stuffed inside a dirty envelope were found in a garbage dump outside Manila. Some of them were ripped, others covered with muck, totally unreadable. But in a few of the salvaged papers important, dramatic events were recalled.
The Chinese official who reportedly had back-channel talks with Senator Antonio Trillanes IV over the territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea on Thursday exchanged pleasantries with the latter’s nemesis, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile described the Tripoli Agreement that resulted from a “secret” meeting between First Lady Imelda Marcos and Libyan President Moammer Gadhafi in November 1976 as an “unmitigated and unpardonable sellout” of Philippine sovereignty to the rebel Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile may have compromised state secrets when he read on the Senate floor the notes supposedly written by Philippine Ambassador to China Sonia Brady after a heated confrontation with Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV last week.
President Benigno Aquino on Thursday sent Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II to China to meet with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the country’s leader-in-waiting, in what Malacañang said was part of a diplomatic initiative to build on the “thawing” of ties with Beijing.
Malacañang on Thursday appeared to distance itself from Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s alleged statements undermining the government’s position in the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China over Panatag Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV outlined his role as President Aquino’s back-channel negotiator with China on the second day of his verbal tussle with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
“I did not inject myself here. My work began in May and finished in July but you never heard a word from me about it. I have kept my peace.”
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has expressed concern over the unscrupulous use of the National Food Authority’s (NFA) import permits to provide legal cover for smuggled rice that find their way to the country’s ports.
