What a Difference a Private Funeral Makes

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 heard saying, [...]

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Tax a Lot!

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 then Governor [...]

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A CON JOB IN QUEZON, part 3

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.  The [...]

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A CON JOB IN QUEZON, part 2

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, [...]

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