WE PAID $9M TAX IN NEW YORK
In 2000, Quezon Power Ltd., a US$1B power plant located in Bgy. Cagsiay 1, Mauban, Quezon, started negotiating with the local assessor on the assessment and valuation of the power facilities for purposes of real property taxes (RPT). Mario Diamante, the municipal assessor was being assisted by the former provincial attorney of the former Governor...
SUCK THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Amid the gloom of a business summit at a time of financial crisis, former U.S. President Bill Clinton managed to deliver an upbeat message, telling delegates, “This is still a good time to be alive.” “This financial crisis proves, as nothing else should or could, the fundamental fact that global interdependence is more important than...
I am MANOLO LOPEZ
His driver now takes the initiative of opening his door once the Volvo stops to dislodge him. From the darkened rear of his top-of-the-line car, by Manila standards, he could see the sharp silhouettes of his Pillars of Makati, the well-appointed Rockwell. From across the Pasig River, he covets the 5-hectare detritus that was once...
AT LAWYER’S END
Leading law firm victim of scam By PURPLE S. ROMERO, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak 01/05/2009 9:40 PM The biggest law firm in the country allegedly fell victim to a multi-million-peso scam. Sources in other law firms told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak that Sycip Salazar Hernandez Gatmaitan, one of the leading local law firms, was duped by a foreign client into advancing...
TOUCHING BASE ON CHRISTMAS….
Our family reunions date back to the 1950s. We had a faint recollection of our 1960 clan reunion held in Lopez, Quezon. Yes, it was a clan reunion, meaning, relations fifth level removed. In this country, a third cousin is a prized relative never to be messed up with. A third cousin means his and...
STILL ONE
It was 8 pm of December 13, 2008 when we were summoned to come to Lucena asap. We were in Calauag attending to the tabulation of the plebiscite results from all over the town’s vastness. Results came trickling in one after another owing to the simple yes and no asked from the voters. Thanks however...
RUNNING ON EMPTY
When you are engaged in an argument, my grandfather told me, never do it with a woman, a columnist, and a priest. Because of their own peculiar medium, they naturally have the last word. Of course, a woman has that exterior of vulnerability. Her tears can tear one down. The columnist has his op-ed and...
QUEZON del SUR TRO’d
The Supreme Court has shown some rare sensitivity when it took cognizance of a petition characterized as parochial. (Parochial indeed because in Quezon Province the local dioceses, that of Gumaca and Lucena had joined forces harnessing their clergies and parishes to go all out campaigning for a Yes Vote on the division of the province...
SEE YOU IN COURT, QUEZON DEL SUR!
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QUEZON del SUR: A Leap in Pitch Dark
PhilStar October 30, 2008: “Among the eight recipients in Southern Tagalog were Elenita Ermita-Buhain of Batangas, daughter of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, and Aleta Suarez of Quezon, who was succeeded in the present Congress by husband Danilo Suarez, one of President Arroyo’s favorite companions on her foreign trips.”(105 congressmen received funds from Jocjoc)
THE demons OF VICENTE ROXAS
How did he get it right? Oh yes, his daughter called him up as she wept to tell him that it’s all over the radio and television. His departure from the bench was the banner story of all the early evening news. The next day, his weeping daughter said, his termination from the Court of...
KIDSPEAK IN COURT
Raging in the papers is the ongoing investigation by a select panel designated by the Supreme Court to look into the revelations made by Justice Jose Sabio that a bribe offer of P10M was dangled to him by a gofer of Manolo Lopez, the President of Manila Electric Company. The High Tribunal gave the probe...