PNoy names former colleague as new SC justice

President Benigno Aquino III has appointed a former colleague in a security agency as the new associate justice of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court received the appointment papers of Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Bienvenido Reyes on Friday morning.

Justice Bienvenido Reyes

Reyes fills up 1 of 2 vacancies following the retirement last June of Associate Justices Conchita Carpio Morales and Antonio Eduardo Nachura. Reyes and the President worked together in Best Security Agency Inc. (BSA), a security agency business Aquino put up with his uncle Antolin Oreta.
Reyes had disclosed to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) that he served as BSA finance manager from 1987 to 1990 during the term of Aquino's mother, former President Corazon Aquino.

At the time, Mr. Aquino was the security agency's vice-president and treasurer.