Only A few days before the elections, the Quezon City government exempted squatters in the National Government Center near the Batasang Pambansa from paying real estate taxes on their homes and stores. The government lots will be sold to them at very minimal prices. How lucky can squatters get. That is why Quezon City is called the paradise of squatters. And that is why squatters congregate there.
Remember Gotesco Investments (Gotesco), the company that was able to have a 22,585.80-square-meter Caloocan City-owned lot worth more than P182 million titled to its name without paying Caloocan a single centavo and there built the first Ever-Gotesco shopping mall, which was gutted by fire recently; the same company that grabbed the Gotesco Tower in Manila from its new owners (As I See It, 11/9/12), the same company that took over the property of Joey de Jesus in Marikina City on the same day that it grabbed Gotesco Tower? It has struck again, this time at the Evercrest Golf Club and Resort in Nasugbu, Batangas.
One, frankly, I couldn’t understand why no one asked if only Renato Corona’s unit in Bellagio was damaged by the typhoon. Serge Osmeña asked about the severity of the damage, Jinggoy Estrada asked about the severity of the typhoon, and the prosecutors and some senator-judges asked if it was normal for Megaworld to sell damaged units.
One, before the trial resumed last Monday, several senators again reminded the world about the impropriety of the prosecution bringing its case before the media, particularly in the form of press conferences. The prosecution had been warned, they said. If they didn’t comply they could be cited for contempt.
Wilfredo S. Torres’ attempts to seize a portion of Maria Montessori School in Quezon City, backed by a local court and police, were agonizing for school president-directress Maritza Tecson.
This is a true-to-life story. Two brothers inherited a parcel of raw real estate in Laguna then worth P30 million and became co-owners thereof with the title registered in their names since 1988. Relying on the government-backed security and reliability of their Torrens title, they never imagined their property would be gone without their knowing [...]
THREE SENATORS and a congressman were the panelists at the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday: Senate President Protempore Jinggoy Estrada, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, Sen. Antonio Trillanes, and Rep. Amado Bagatsing of Manila. Senator Lacson explained the various corruption cases being investigated by the Senate, starting with the second-hand helicopters allegedly passed [...]
