with apologies to the Heckler………….
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. ………… Robert Frost The kidnappers of three workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have to organize themselves into a cooperative before they can be granted livelihood assistance and development…
WE PAID $9M TAX IN NEW YORK
In 2000, Quezon Power Ltd., a US$1B power plant located in Bgy. Cagsiay 1, Mauban, Quezon, started negotiating with the local assessor on the assessment and valuation of the power facilities for purposes of real property taxes (RPT). Mario Diamante, the municipal…
SUCK THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Amid the gloom of a business summit at a time of financial crisis, former U.S. President Bill Clinton managed to deliver an upbeat message, telling delegates, “This is still a good time to be alive.” “This financial crisis proves, as nothing else should or could, the…
I am MANOLO LOPEZ
His driver now takes the initiative of opening his door once the Volvo stops to dislodge him. From the darkened rear of his top-of-the-line car, by Manila standards, he could see the sharp silhouettes of his Pillars of Makati, the well-appointed Rockwell. From across…
AT LAWYER’S END
Leading law firm victim of scam By PURPLE S. ROMERO, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak 01/05/2009 9:40 PM The biggest law firm in the country allegedly fell victim to a multi-million-peso scam. Sources in other law firms told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak that Sycip Salazar…
TOUCHING BASE ON CHRISTMAS….
Our family reunions date back to the 1950s. We had a faint recollection of our 1960 clan reunion held in Lopez, Quezon. Yes, it was a clan reunion, meaning, relations fifth level removed. In this country, a third cousin is a prized relative never to be messed up with….
STILL ONE
It was 8 pm of December 13, 2008 when we were summoned to come to Lucena asap. We were in Calauag attending to the tabulation of the plebiscite results from all over the town’s vastness. Results came trickling in one after another owing to the simple yes and no asked…
RUNNING ON EMPTY
When you are engaged in an argument, my grandfather told me, never do it with a woman, a columnist, and a priest. Because of their own peculiar medium, they naturally have the last word. Of course, a woman has that exterior of vulnerability. Her tears can tear one…
QUEZON del SUR TRO’d
The Supreme Court has shown some rare sensitivity when it took cognizance of a petition characterized as parochial. (Parochial indeed because in Quezon Province the local dioceses, that of Gumaca and Lucena had joined forces harnessing their clergies and parishes to…