By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Yesterday I classified as hypocrisy the action of VTI of giving and then taking back half of it to pay for the alleged company indebtedness. The management claims that the deductions are reflected in the pay slip; the workers insist otherwise. Who’s telling the truth? Would the drivers and conductors
January 27, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy This is the first time I heard of a company withdrawing what it gave to its employees in order to help the company pay its debtors. As a worker’s message said, “this is not like the father.” Indeed, when Ricardo Yanson, Sr. was alive we never heard of a strike
January 26, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy For those who dabble in history, even one fact is considered important because together with other small items, eventually create a portrait on canvass where histories are written. As I always emphasize nothing happens in isolation of others – all events are interrelated. Oftentimes a piece completes a picture to
January 25, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy In the midst of competition for vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic the number of deaths from the first groups of people who were vaccinated is practically ignored. The first to be break into the social media involves earlier this month, Dr. Gregory Michael, a “very healthy” 56-year-old obstetrician from Miami,
January 23, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Because the complainant Olivia V. Yanson and the lawyers of both camps did not appear before the investigating prosecutors but simply submitted their positions on this case, the panel of prosecutors decided on the issue. Three assistant prosecutors went over this case and issued their decision on November 29, 2019:
January 22, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy It is said that pictures don’t lie but with the new technology photographs can be altered. However manipulated photographs can also be detected and in this case there is no showing that the Yanson children submitted a faked photo. These photos make Olivia’s claim of a tarpaulin notice an afterthought
January 21, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy For us in Western Visayas, the conflict in the family of Ricardo B. Yanson focused on the turmoil in the takeover of the two terminals in Bacolod – the main office in Mansiligan and the Sambok Terminal by Leo Rey’s police forces. But the struggle for control of the company,
January 20, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy We have heard our government planning of mass vaccination, in fact, there are reports of possible coercion to ensure that everybody is inoculated. The Department of Health issued a statement last week that they are contemplating requiring people to have a “vaccination passport.” What that means is not revealed but
January 19, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy This is just a breaker but related to the subject of this column. For several days last week, I had been receiving reports from different sources of the death of a healthy doctor in Florida who died after being inoculated. I thought then it could be a fake news until
January 18, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said the mayors of Negros Occidental support the transfer of the Provincial Capitol building to Talisay City. He was quoted saying “There was no negative reaction and all the mayors favor the transfer.” The governor also said that while the Capitol Building will be transferred,
January 16, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The House of Representatives has already started the process for the amendment of the 1987 Constitution. There had been several attempts in the past for this purpose but they all failed because the senators were against the proposal. Whether this time both Houses of Congress will come to terms is
January 15, 2021
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Patrick Delaney noted that “notwithstanding the fact that no vaccine has ever been successfully developed for any coronavirus, and such an endeavor would normally take years to safely and adequately complete, the Food and Drug Administration has permitted the fast-tracking of this process skipping the standard stage of testing on animals to
January 14, 2021