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                    [Title] => Court denies Estrada house arrest bid anew
                    [Summary] => Denied again.


Stressing that the judiciary should be shielded from politics at all times, the Sandiganbayan denied for the second time yesterday the request that deposed President Joseph Estrada be transferred from hospital detention in Quezon City to house arrest in his posh San Juan residence.


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                    [Title] => Cuevas: Maybe Estrada was just joking
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Was Joseph  Estrada, a habitual joker, "just joking" about signing the Jose Velarde accounts to get out of a hot situation and to save, quite literally speaking, his neck?


One of Estrada’s lawyers, former Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas, said yesterday that the fallen leader may have just been joking when he admitted on television that he signed documents involving a P500-million bank account with Equitable PCI Bank using the name Jose Velarde.
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                    [Title] => Jinggoy needs longer hospital stay, doctors say
                    [Summary] => Former San Juan Mayor Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada may find himself extending his hospital stay after doctors discovered that he is suffering from heart ailments.


Doctors at the Makati Medical Center (MMC) yesterday urged the Sandiganbayan to allow Jinggoy to extend his stay in hospital while he undergoes further treatment.


Jinggoy, along with his father, deposed President Joseph Estrada, has been in hospital for several months now undergoing medical examination. They are facing several charges of plunder, a crime punishable by death.


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                    [Title] => Prosecutor who bungled Tan tax case promoted
                    [Summary] => The chief government prosecutor who handled the P25.2 billion tax evasion case of beer and tobacco magnate and presidential friend Lucio Tan was recently promoted by President Estrada to judge of a lower court.


Senior State Prosecutor Paulita Acosta-Villarante of the Department of Justice was designated judge of Branch 221 of the regional trial court in Mandaluyong City, one of the five additional new courts created by the Supreme Court.


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                    [Title] => Reyes wants out due to poor health, chief of staff confirms
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It's confirmed: Press Secretary Rodolfo Reyes is really on the way out of
President Estrada's Cabinet. But he is not being fired nor being pressured to
quit.

Presidential Chief of Staff Aprodicio Laquian said this yesterday as he
confirmed that Reyes has already expressed desire to "retire" from the Cabinet
due to his failing health.

"It's been an old issue already," Laquian said. "Rod (Reyes) himself said that
his health is really suffering."

Reyes, who is presently in the United States having a medical checkup, has
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                    [Title] => Extreme displeasure - Sketches
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You know you have severely displeased President Erap when the press is asking
you for a comment on your ouster and you don't even know that you have been
fired.

So what did ousted Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas do that gave President Erap
extreme displeasure? 

Before we try to answer this, we should remember that all Cabinet members and
other political appointees serve at the pleasure of the President. They can be
fired anytime, in the interest of public service, or whatever general line the
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                    [Title] => The Cuevas ouster and the Manero pardon - Roses And Thorns
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Earlier we said that when an office asks any official to submit a courtesy
resignation, what they are doing in effect are two things: First, they are
sparing the office the unpleasant job of firing an employee. Second, they are
giving the official involved a graceful exit. He can always say that he
resigned because he had a better offer. If you are fired, it is always assumed
that it was for a just cause.

There was a time when the word "fired" was not used when it concerned cabinet
members.
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                    [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces
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                    [Title] => `Speed up Javier slay case trial'
                    [Summary] => 

SAN JOSE, Antique - President Estrada directed Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas
yesterday to move for a speedy trial on the case of the 1986 assassination of
former Antique governor Evelio Javier.

Senate Majority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon said the President was "concerned
about the delay" in the case and the injustice this brings to the people of
Antique.

Javier was brutally murdered on Feb. 11, 1986 while overseeing the counting of
votes from the snap presidential elections.
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                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [AuthorName] => by Leo Solinap
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                    [Title] => DA can't sell seized sugar - DOJ
                    [Summary] => 

The Department of Justice has thwarted the plan of Agriculture Secretary
Edgardo Angara to sell to the world market the government's confiscated
smuggled sugar in an attempt to revitalize the ailing sugar industry.

Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas said the Department of Agriculture does not
have the power to sell these seized goods as it is not within its mandate to do
so, but is rather vested in the Bureau of Customs.

"It is clear that the disposition of the smuggled shipments of sugar subject to
this query pertains to the Bureau of Customs and shall be governed by the
prov
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JUSTICE SECRETARY SERAFIN CUEVAS

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Was Joseph  Estrada, a habitual joker, "just joking" about signing the Jose Velarde accounts to get out of a hot situation and to save, quite literally speaking, his neck?


One of Estrada’s lawyers, former Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas, said yesterday that the fallen leader may have just been joking when he admitted on television that he signed documents involving a P500-million bank account with Equitable PCI Bank using the name Jose Velarde.
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                    [Title] => Jinggoy needs longer hospital stay, doctors say
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Doctors at the Makati Medical Center (MMC) yesterday urged the Sandiganbayan to allow Jinggoy to extend his stay in hospital while he undergoes further treatment.


Jinggoy, along with his father, deposed President Joseph Estrada, has been in hospital for several months now undergoing medical examination. They are facing several charges of plunder, a crime punishable by death.


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Senior State Prosecutor Paulita Acosta-Villarante of the Department of Justice was designated judge of Branch 221 of the regional trial court in Mandaluyong City, one of the five additional new courts created by the Supreme Court.


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It's confirmed: Press Secretary Rodolfo Reyes is really on the way out of
President Estrada's Cabinet. But he is not being fired nor being pressured to
quit.

Presidential Chief of Staff Aprodicio Laquian said this yesterday as he
confirmed that Reyes has already expressed desire to "retire" from the Cabinet
due to his failing health.

"It's been an old issue already," Laquian said. "Rod (Reyes) himself said that
his health is really suffering."

Reyes, who is presently in the United States having a medical checkup, has
twice underwent heart surgery.
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fired.

So what did ousted Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas do that gave President Erap
extreme displeasure? 

Before we try to answer this, we should remember that all Cabinet members and
other political appointees serve at the pleasure of the President. They can be
fired anytime, in the interest of public service, or whatever general line the
administration has for such occasions.
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Earlier we said that when an office asks any official to submit a courtesy
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sparing the office the unpleasant job of firing an employee. Second, they are
giving the official involved a graceful exit. He can always say that he
resigned because he had a better offer. If you are fired, it is always assumed
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There was a time when the word "fired" was not used when it concerned cabinet
members.
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yesterday to move for a speedy trial on the case of the 1986 assassination of
former Antique governor Evelio Javier.

Senate Majority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon said the President was "concerned
about the delay" in the case and the injustice this brings to the people of
Antique.

Javier was brutally murdered on Feb. 11, 1986 while overseeing the counting of
votes from the snap presidential elections.
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The Department of Justice has thwarted the plan of Agriculture Secretary
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smuggled sugar in an attempt to revitalize the ailing sugar industry.

Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas said the Department of Agriculture does not
have the power to sell these seized goods as it is not within its mandate to do
so, but is rather vested in the Bureau of Customs.

"It is clear that the disposition of the smuggled shipments of sugar subject to
this query pertains to the Bureau of Customs and shall be governed by the
prov
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