By Modesto P. Sa-onoy In a month’s time classes will hopefully start but enrolment in public and private schools are below expectations. As of yesterday, news report says that only 27 percent of private school students who enrolled last year have so far registered for this school year. The number could drop some more
July 23, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy First a correction. Yesterday’s initials should be “DOJ” as we referred to the prosecutors of the Department of Justice and not the Department of Finance, or DOF. Our apologies. A slip perhaps, but I was not thinking of the prosecutor’s decisions are matters of finance. A crisis always makes people creative,
July 22, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy I asked yesterday about the source of the shares of stocks of the six siblings of Ricardo B. Yanson. The DOF prosecutor had an answer – that agreement among the heirs was only a recognition that they are heirs. This opinion was made to apply to the claim of Emily Yanson.
July 21, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The discussion last week on the recommendation of the investigating prosecutor of the Department of Justice to indict Emily Yanson of the crime of falsification and perjury was based merely on the press statement of the complainants Olivia, and Leo Rey Yanson. The statements of course are self-serving and with tints
July 20, 2020
focus By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Governments had imposed rules during the pandemic that in ordinary times would be vehemently opposed by the citizens. Due to fear of contagion by the Covid-19, citizens readily submitted to whatever the government-mandated even the most absurd one like arresting a person for taking off his mask for a moment
July 18, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy If there is one luxury that people can continue to engage in despite the pandemic and the consequent quarantine, it is imbibing their favorite drink. Denied the chance to get out and into the bars or their favorite watering holes the drinkers are not restricted in their homes where fellowship may
July 17, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Since the dawn of democracy in the world, there are hundreds of quotes about the freedom of the press. The Founding Fathers of America where the modern concept of democracy bloomed had issued many wise words to explain in different ways the recognition of the freedom of expression as the bedrock
July 16, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy I thought I had written enough yesterday about the puzzling and unbelievable conclusions of the investigators the Department of Justice (DOJ) saying that there is “probable cause” to believe that Emily Yanson falsified under oath her being a stockholder, corporate secretary, and director of the Vallacar Transit Corporation. My discussion was
July 15, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy I read last week’s news report and a follow-up story about the finding by the Department of Justice “probable cause to charge Emily V. Yanson with four counts of falsification of public documents and five counts of perjury.” The lawyer of the Yanson 3, Norman Golez, sent this report to the
July 14, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy As if responding to my four columns from July 2, on the legacy of Ricardo Buerom Yanson, somebody sent me a video of the last birthday celebration of the late transport magnate. It was a private, informal dinner, in fact, the video showed only three persons – Ricardo and his
July 13, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The series of rioting and protests in America has worsened with the anarchists beheading statues of men that shaped America, like George Washington, Ulysses Grant, and saints of the Catholic Church. The mobsters have already issued a call to destroy more statues of saints. Last week, Dr. Taylor Marshall gave an
July 11, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Further to the decision of the Department of Justice junking several cases filed by the Yanson 2 against the Yanson 4, I did not know that the children were included in the suits. Thus, also dismissed were the cases against Jerica Leanne and Jerina Louise Ramos, daughters of Emily Yanson who
July 10, 2020