By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy This column should have been yesterday but for mixed up schedules. Our apologies to those who are following up this Tele-Ceres on the Yanson family feud. Last week I quoted from the Yanson Family Constitution the primary reason of Ricardo Yanson for conducting a series of estate planning sessions and the
November 5, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy IN HIS homily last October 28 during the Mass celebrating the feast of St. Jude Thaddeus, Bacolod Bishop Patricio Buzon made clear the Catholic teaching that Christ founded only one Church and any other claimants, like the Iglesia ni Cristo and other numerous religious congregations, should show that they were founded
November 4, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy TODAY is the feast of All Saints in the Catholic calendar but even non-Catholics go along just for the holiday and the “fiesta”. But I chose to discuss the ghosts of the November 5 and 6 revolts in Occidental Negros because next week the province will commemorate this significant day in
November 1, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy After the 60-day period when local governments were supposed to clear the streets of all sorts of obstructions, the campaign had stopped. September 30 was the deadline for local governments to comply with the directive. Then the Department of the Interior and Local Government would check for compliance. How compliant were
October 31, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy IN THE aftermath of the expulsion of “Ceres Mart” and “Ceres Pasalubong” from all terminals and properties of the Yanson clan, a reported 200 employees lost their source of livelihood. Emily Yanson who owns the two establishments had no choice but to let them go. The expulsion of these businesses was
October 30, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy IN 1836, the Republic of Letters (Volume 6, p.145) published a novel “Inheritance” and I quote a line which reads: “What’s done we fairly may compute, but who can trace actions to their source? who can fathom the depths of the human heart, or discern those secret springs, which, although they send
October 29, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy LAST Wednesday, I asked a series of questions on the compliance of the members of the Yanson family of their constitution that embodies the will and aspirations of their patriarch, Ricardo. I assumed the family adheres to them as well. The answers to those questions can be gleaned from the series
October 28, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy ON MONDAY, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Jude Thaddeus, popularly known as the patron saint of hopeless cases. For the Diocese of Bacolod, the church and diocesan shrine for St. Jude is in Barangay Alijis. If there are many devotees to St. Jude it is because he must
October 26, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy BACOLOD City officials should make up their minds and coordinate with the Department of Public Works and Highways to determine the utility or uselessness of islands at the center of the road. While Councilor Dindo Ramos wants to remove the center islands to widen the roads, the DPWH is constructing islands
October 25, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The topic of 15 historians gathered in Tacloban City for the 75th anniversary of the landing of General Douglas MacArthur and the United States army were about World War II and the many incidents of killings. Individuals and groups were killed in the process of “pacification” to make the Filipinos tow
October 24, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy Let me cite a portion of yesterday’s column on the Yanson family constitution the message, nay the ultimate will of Ricardo Yanson: We must never be distracted and divided by our own adversary – our attitude – and the way we perceive things in not so practical way. He identified clearly
October 23, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy HISTORIANS have a cliché, “if it was not written it never existed”. In the case of the Yanson Family Constitution, the values, beliefs and philosophies, both for the family and their businesses were written and signed, but events now question the existence of these core values in some members of the
October 22, 2019