By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE year of reckoning for the allegedly missing P380 million is 2018. The family conflict entered the public square in mid-2019 and exploded to the extent that the camp of Leo Rey used the Philippine National Police with unprecedented force to recover his seat even without a court order. I’ll leave
September 23, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THERE are thousands of Catholic beliefs and practices considering the universality of the Church and the number of centuries that it existed. Many of these even date back into Biblical times that connect the Catholic Church to the Jews. There are others that developed in some countries that are not Catholic
September 21, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy BACOLOD Councilor Carl Lopez has filed a proposal to rename the two roads that serve as boundaries of the Provincial Capitol at the north and south wings. Across the north side of the Capitol from behind the Philippine National Bank to San Juan Street to the west are other provincial offices.
September 20, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy BEFORE we discuss the data that I have collected, anybody with contradictory or corroborative information is welcome to send their own data provided they identify themselves. They can ask for anonymity if I used their data. We are here to seek the truth, and nobody has a monopoly on the truth.
September 19, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE news had lately mentioned an SGV Report that relates to the allegedly missing P380 million from the coffers of Vallacar Transit Inc. This is a curious document because the opposing camps in the Yanson family feud are citing it to pin blame on one another on who got or is
September 18, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy LAST Thursday the news quoted the legal counsel of the auditing firm Sycip, Gorres and Velayo saying that Celina Lopez Yanson, is “cleared of any liability” in the P380 million fund mess that is among the causes of the conflict in the family business, the Vallacar Transit Inc. The clarification by
September 17, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The massive and fast removal of illegal sidewalk vendors has created a big headache for local governments, especially in crowded cities like Bacolod. They have mushroomed through the years because this kind of business is the easiest means for the many poor to earn a living. Otherwise, they would have engaged
September 16, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy FOR Catholics there are two deposits of faith – the Bible and Tradition. Protestant churches rely solely on the Bible that they have also reduced in content understandably removing Biblical passages that do not conform to their doctrines. I will not deal with these differences but in certain practices in the
September 14, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy AFTER many years of agonizing and pitiful health care situation, the people of Negros will finally have a respite with the passage of Republic Act No. 11441 authored by Bacolod Congressman Greg Gasataya. The law increases the bed capacity of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City from
September 13, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy SHOULD the Philippines ship out to the United States five percent of its sugar produced this crop year? Philippine sugar has been sold to that market since the last decade of the 19th century except during the years of World War II when our sugar was sent to Japan, for free,
September 12, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THERE is the plan being discussed by officials of the City of Bacolod to establish a terminal for passenger jeeps at the Vendors Plaza beside a mall at the reclamation area. The purpose of this terminal is to “force” passengers to take their ride here so that the vendors who were
September 11, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy Releasing prisoners for good behavior is an ancient practice presaging the Christian concept of imprisonment and compassion. In Jewish law, selected prisoners are released during the Jubilee, the coronation of kings or special occasions to “appease the gods”. I recall the times when prisoners with good conduct were released by presidential
September 10, 2019