By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy LAST WEEK I got news from Bacolod saying a murder charge will be filed against the Yanson 4. Which one of them or all of them, was not said. I also learned that a check was made with the prosecutors and there was no such charge. I thus considered the “murder
October 21, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy LET’S continue with last Saturday’s review of Dr. Carrie Gress’ book, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity by Andrea Picciotti Bayer and published by the Catholic News Agency. The citations last week presented Dr. Gress’ view that although “anti-Marian spirit” is “unattractive”, it has become “something of a
October 19, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE National Historical Commission of the Philippines is holding here in Tacloban City, a national conference to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the landing of the American Forces in Leyte on October 20, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific during World War II, led
October 18, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy IT LOOKS pathetic but here is Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri reported last week asking the Department of Agriculture and the Sugar Regulatory Administration to “come out strongly and break their ‘deafening silence’ on the issues plaguing the Philippine sugar industry. There is an adage that you cannot wake up a person
October 17, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE case filed by Jerome Seballos was sworn to on August 30, 2019 while that of Gary Manayon was on August 29, 2019. The sworn statement of Hernan Omicellois also dated August 29. Omicello claimed he and several other VTI employees conducted an inventory of documents and currencies after Leo Rey
October 16, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy ONE complainant, Gary Manayon claiming to be representing Vallacar Transit Corporation filed a case on August 30. He charged the Yanson 4 and several others of anti-carnapping, grave coercion and other violations of laws. By using his position in as the Material Control Department head he appears to represent the company
October 15, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy DESPERATE times require desperate measures. At normal times, Olivia Yanson would not want her grandchildren to be dragged to court on a criminal charge. She would fight to protect them, spend as much money as needed to ensure that her grandchildren will not suffer for life the stain of a criminal.
October 14, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE Catholic News Agency sent out a review by Andrea Picciotti Bayer of the book, The Anti-Mary. The article answers many questions that had bugged me for some time, especially when I was writing the Church on a Hill, a comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in Negros. My book cited
October 12, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy In the Philippines, the term “red-tagging” is understood as the “act of labeling, branding, naming and accusing individuals and/or organizations of being left-leaning, subversives, communists or terrorists”. The word “red” originated from the commonly used color of the communists. The militants in the Philippines use this same color in their flags,
October 11, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy I CANNOT think of any country or at any time in recorded human history where there were no rogue cops or wayward enforcers of the law. Some countries have them aplenty, others tolerable and contained to a minimum degree and where punishment was swift. Still, the temptations for material gain are
October 10, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy JUST to be fair, the camp of Leo Rey can send me a copy of the GIS they submitted to the SEC prior to the July 7, 2019 meeting to show that indeed they have a majority share and that Olivia Yanson is a stockholder. In this way, we can study
October 9, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The search for the whereabouts of the P380 million was initiated in August last year during the presidency of Leo Rey. I don’t know who among the members of the VTI board of directors insisted on an audit after the bank reported unusual withdrawals. It does not matter who did, but
October 8, 2019