A private funeral for a former president? Even in death, Cory made a scathing statement against the sitting president. Her death four days after the veritable divination-of-animal-entrails State of the Nation Address, was her best riposte against the sitting President. Cory’s family declined a Malacanang offer of state funeral. Shortly before she died, Cory was...
It feels good to be proved right. In a letter dated March 2, 2000, the Municipality of Pagbilao assessed Mirant’s real property taxes on the power plant and its machineries in the total amount of P1, 538,076,000.00 for the period of 1997 to 2000. We know there was something amiss when the provincial government under...
We are now also drafting another supplemental letter to the Board of Directors of DBP informing the bank that the Suarez Family is also the owner of Suarez Agro-Industrial Development Corporation. Suarez Agro-Industrial Development Corporation entered into a Contract of Lease with DBP over an acquired asset (ice plant) located in Brgy. Biyan, Calauag, Quezon. ...
Instances of Provisions Manifestly Disadvantageous to Quezon Electric Cooperative I under the Renewable Energy Supply Agreement. Going now to the Renewable Energy Supply Agreement, it would appear that the said agreement is unconscionably tilted in favor of the Seller, Coco Resources Corporation. The Seller is still to submit a proposal “to undertake the development, engineering,...
First, it all started as a simple idea. In 2005, while he was on his way to Unisan, Quezon, his hometown, Congressman Danilo Suarez saw heaps of coconut husks along Bgy. Hinguiwin and he got his epiphany. Those refuse just petrify for nothing. There has to be one utility for this abundant resource. He’s tired...
As we promised, we are going back to our godforsaken congressional districts, all the more made destitute by our honorable congressmen. We are not simply talking the talk as most of our armchair intelligentsias do within the confines of the academe or our bedfellows from Makati Business District breaking bread with their comrades in one...
In May, 2010, make no room for these low lives who approved the Con-Ass. Poll automation or not, be sure not to tick any of the names we provided here. Of course, these low lives are local supermen who feel they have the stranglehold on their constituencies. They (the congressmen or the constituencies?) go hungry...
Here’s a letter from Aila Lenard of Bayanihan Times from Down Under she sent to my sister, Judge Chona Pulgar-Navarro. Aila said “Dear Chona and Daprosa – I knew I had to write this letter in order to purge the sadness I feel for a young woman who could have been a friend, a sister,...
You can’t remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your...
Philstar.com reported the following news item: OSG asks court to stop audit of ‘Big 3′ oil firms By Sandy Araneta Updated May 23, 2009 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines – The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) urged a Manila regional trial court (RTC) yesterday to reconsider its decision ordering an audit of the “books of...
Rummaging thru files, we came across news clippings on the complete bar results in 1963. There’s not much difference on how the announcement was made from how the media do it today. Breaking the bar results is a big event then and now. It looks like from whence the Supreme Court has handled the bar...
“ASUNCION, PARAGUAY-A third woman came forward Wednesday claiming Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former bishop, is the father of her child-this one a 16-month-old boy she named after late Pope John Paul II. The growing number of paternity claims against Lugo less than a year into his presidency has embarrassed the government and put the...
