Tag: Carpio

Manila Water accepts resignation of COO Carpio

  (Eagle News) – The chief operating officer of the Manila Water Company Inc., Geodino Carpio, has resigned, the water company said. Manila Water Company said on Tuesday that it had already accepted Carpio’s resignation but did not give any reason why the official who had served the company for 22 years is leaving. Carpio’s resignation is effective the close of business hours Tuesday, April 16. He also held the position of President of the […]

New Chief Justice Bersamin says he didn’t expect appointment; plans to correct misimpressions on the judiciary

  (Eagle News) – Newly appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucas P. Bersamin started his first press briefing with a request to the media and to the public for understanding, asking for a few more days so that he could complete his written detaileds plans as head of the Supreme Court. His appointment as head of the highest court of the land, surprised him, he said. In his first press briefing, minutes after he took […]

Carpio accepts automatic nomination as Supreme Court Chief Justice

  (Eagle News) — Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio has accepted his automatic nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This was confirmed by Atty. Maria Teresa Sibulo, head of Carpio’s judicial staff. Carpio, the most senior member of the high court, had previously declined the nomination for Chief Justice after the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno. Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro was appointed Chief Justice by President Rodrigo Duterte after Sereno […]

CJ De Castro honored by fellow SC justices for having restored collegiality, “dignity, harmony” in high court

  (Eagle News) — Fellow Supreme Court justices honored retiring Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro on Friday, crediting her for having restored collegiality, as well as “dignity and harmony” in the high court. The high court held a special en banc session honoring De Castro, the 24th Supreme Court Chief Justice of the country on Friday, three days before she officially reaches her mandatory retirement age of 70 on Monday, October 8, her birthday. Senior […]

JBC says SC acting chief justice Carpio submitted complete SALNs, disproving Sereno’s claim

  (Eagle News) – The Judicial and Bar Council issued a certification that Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Antonio Carpio had submitted all the required Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) contrary to the claim of on-leave Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Sereno, in her comment to the quo warranto petition filed against her before the tribunal, claimed that Carpio was among the associate justices and other lawyers who were listed as applicants […]

Justice Carpio proposes “institutional approach” to protect PHL marine resources

  (Eagle News) – There should be a government agency or authority that is solely dedicated to planning and thinking of ways on how to protect and preserve the country’s marine resources, including those in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. This was what Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio proposed as he answered questions after his special lecture on the West Philippine Sea in New Era University in Quezon City on Friday, March […]

Acting Chief Justice Carpio says China trying to enforce 9-dash line invalidated by UNCLOS

  (Eagle News) – China’s real intention or “grand design” in establishing air and naval bases in the South China Sea is to continue to enforce the nine-dash line, although this was already invalidated by a recent ruling of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This was according to Supreme Court Acting Chief Justice Antonio T. Carpio who detailed how China increasingly creeped into territorial waters of other countries, including […]

“Resign now” – SC employees, court judges and court employees nationwide ask Sereno

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Judges and court employees nationwide on Monday, March 12, called for the immediate resignation of on-leave Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, saying that she should make this sactifice to preserve the integrity of the tribunal. The call was made by the Philippine Judges Association President and Marikina RTC Judge Felix Reyes, Supreme Court Employees Association (SCEA), Supreme Court Assembly of Lawyer Employees (SCALE), the […]

Justice Carpio to President Duterte: Send the Navy to Scarborough Shoal

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to fulfill what he said was his constitutional duty to defend the territory of the Philippines by sending the Philippine Navy to Scarborough Shoal. The Shoal is where China is allegedly building environmental monitoring stations. “Send the Philippine Navy to patrol Scarborough Shoal. If the Chinese attack Philippine Navy vessels, then invoke the Philippine-United States Mutual Defense […]