By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy I WAS about to shift to another theme in this Tele-Ceres of the Yanson family conflict when a media release came out confirming the information about the case of Neuter with additional information that clarifies the cause of Olivia Yanson’s “wrath” against her four children. I used the name “Neuter” to
August 26, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy FR. SEAN COYLE writing from Ireland on August 20, shared with me his thoughts on this subject on the Catholic Faith as a gift. Let me open with Fr. Coyle’s quotation of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI during a baptismal rite: “Dear friends, in giving us faith, the Lord has given us
August 24, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy While the Bacolod City government is officially celebrating the festival to encourage alcoholic drinks in its Rum Festival that will run for three days, we have not heard of any official commemoration of the democratic struggle of Benigno Aquino, Jr. whose assassination fell on August 21. The Aquino day is declared
August 23, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE public has now a balcony view of the conflict. It could have been avoided but things went wrong when the four children refused to return what they had received. There are valid reasons for this refusal that we shall see later. Understandably Olivia Yanson wanted to get back the shares
August 22, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy ASIDE from the news last week that the members of the board of VTI asked Leo Rey to explain the withdrawal of millions of company funds without the authority of the board, there is another story that weighs in on the feud. This never came out in the news but was
August 21, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy LIKE Abraham Lincoln we trace the causes of the Yanson family feud “with malice towards none and charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right…” and paraphrasing the US President, “to bind the wounds, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
August 20, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy OUR title notes the “secrets” of the Bacolod City Water District, but the reproduction and distribution of the documents containing the points that were raised by the opposition group among the employees are no longer hidden. Nevertheless, let us continue to give our readers a complete picture of this opposition. One
August 19, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy LAST MONTH I attended a wedding at a posh subdivision in Metro Manila. It was all formal – men in black suits and white shirts and ladies in long gowns were specified. The reception at a Makati hotel was expensive with all-white roses, imported white tulips, formal luncheon with printed menu,
August 17, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy I HAVE refrained for some time from commenting on the feud among the heirs of Ricardo Yanson because of the murky and conflicting claims from the parties, the mother and her siblings. The stakes are too high over properties worth billions and more billions in properties other than the transportation company.
August 16, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE forcible occupancy of the main office of the Vallacar Transit Corporation by the camp of Leo Rey Yanson is hailed as a victory. Indeed, as I noted yesterday, it can be considered a victory, but it is hollow and pyrrhic – a costly one that does not solve the corporate
August 15, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The assault of the Philippine National Police and forcible entry into the Mansilingan headquarters of Vallacar Transit supposedly to install a security agency is unusual as it fielded a reported 200 policemen and done with stealth. It also raises the question of whether it is the function of the police to
August 14, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy There has been little information about the deliberations of the Joint Venture Selection Committee, one of the reasons that people are left without a choice but to speculate. It is normal to oppose what one does know and fear. The opposition released a consolidated list of the observations of those who attended
August 13, 2019