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COLLECTING monetary claims But the Veterans Bank has had From shivering Seoul to balmy
from award-winning Finance Secretary a change of heart after receiving Bacolod. Philippine Airlines is starting Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima gestures as he speaks at a World Economic Forum in this file photo
Cesar Purisima is proving to be like last month an identical letter from a charter service between Seoul and courtesy of DOF.
extracting tooth without anesthesia, a PhilEXIM chief legal counsel Isabelo Bacolod to bring shivering Koreans to
number of banks have just found out. Gumaru denying their claim against the uncrowded golf courses and sunny amin? Nakiramay na kami!”(What male medical student who survived,
the government guarantee agency. beaches of Negros during the height of more do you want from us? We’ve had been drinking and left a stove
The Philippine Export-Import winter. already condoled with you!), the Court cooking bulalo that had ignited the fire
Credit Agency, chaired by Purisima, The PhilEXIM position: PhilPhos of Appeals quoted Carandang as telling while they were all asleep during that
has turned down the claim of four is under rehabilitation and unless the The twice-a-week frequency will the parents of the late Jessa Perez and unfortunate night.
private banks to collect on the P3.9- Ormoc City Regional Trial Court lifts start December 24 until February 16, Cecille Quintos during an emotional
billion loan of the Yolanda-battered the payment suspension order, the 2016, with PAL providing an Airbus meeting. St. Luke’s also said that the ill-
Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Corp. government agency “may not give due A321 for the special service, said PAL fated clinic was actually built by the
that was guaranteed by PhilEXIM. course to (the banks’) claim.” spokesperson Cielo Villaluna. Because of that remark, the municipal government of Cabiao,
unmollified parents filed a criminal Nueva Ecija.
According to the grapevine, The four banks, on the other hand, The Department of Tourism and complaint with the National Bureau
Standard Chartered, Cocobank, China think that the PhilEXIM position the local governments are actively of Investigation, which declared that Heard through the grapevine. One
Bank and, surprisingly, Philippine is specious, since the creditors are promoting Bacolod and Negros as a the clinic was a fire hazard with no Cebuano and one Davaweno are set to
Veterans Bank, are all set to file collecting on PhilEXIM, not PhilPhos winter/holiday escape for the South defined fire exit. The parents of the join imperial Manila’s most exclusive
individual collection cases against the itself. Koreans, just as they first did in 2012, third victim, Jerillie Ann Murillo, did country club.
PhilEXIM board and management when Zest Air first operated a charter not join the lawsuit.
before the long Christmas break. PhilEXIM itself is not unprotected service between the two cities. Iker Aboitiz, younger brother of
since the government agency holds an Citing the NBI findings and the Endika and Monchu who took early
Veterans Bank, the biggest lender undetermined share in the P6.5-billion Dean’s careless remark costly for school’s contractual obligation to house retirement from the Aboitiz Group, has
of them all at P1 billion, had at first claim that PhilPhos would be getting St. Luke’s. A careless remark made its students in a safe environment, the acquired a Manila Polo Club share.
broken ranks when its chairman, from the reinsurers for its damaged by St. Luke’s College of Medicine appellate court reversed the Regional
Roberto de Ocampo, stopped the building, machinery and equipment. president and dean Brigido Carandang Trial Court absolving St. Luke’s of And so did Dennis Uy, the president
creditor consortium from foreclosing Jr. to grieving parents of two female any liability and last month ordered and chief executive of the Davao-based
on the twice-defaulted P3.9-billion According to the banking chatter, students will cost more than P900,000 the lower court to resume trial to Phoenix Petroleum, who counts no less
PhilPhos debt. Purisima privately agrees with the in restitution that the medical school’s determine the amount of damages, on than Lance Gokongwei and his cousin
banks’ position on PhilEXIM’s liability insurance policy had already shelled top of the P300,000 insurance cover Frederick Go as proposer and seconder
A Ramos-era finance secretary, De but, to protect himself from any post- out. for each fatality. for his application for membership.
Ocampo had cited “national interest” June 2016 Ombudsman investigation,
in extending PhilPhos, a Marcos-era the finance secretary still wants a court According to judicial records, an In its defense, St. Luke’s said the Price for a Manila Polo share now
showcase project now controlled by his order clearly saying that, yes, PhilEXIM irritated Carandang snapped at the three female students, along with a hovers between P12 million and P13
friend and mining magnate Salvador may pay out the P4 billion claimed by parents of two of the three medical million. n Victor C. Agustin / December 11, 2015
Zamora II, some breathing spell to the banks. students who had perished in a 2010
recover from the supertyphoon that fire that gutted a rural outreach clinic / 2:16 pm
had battered the fertilizer complex in That process, given the pace of the run by St. Luke’s.
Leyte in 2013. judicial process in the country, could
take a few more years. “Ano pa ba ang gusto ninyo sa

NDRRMC ON BLUE ALERT PNoy alerts concerned agencies as Nona approaches
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III Communications Secretary Herminio Disaster Risk Reduction and “correspondibng the forecast situation” signal number 1 over Camarines

has ordered all concerned agencies to Coloma Jr. told statre-run dzRB on Management Council’s (NDRRMC) in their areas of responsibility. Norte, Southern Quezon, Marinduque

prepare local communities that will Sunday. headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Weather bureau PAGASA said that and Romblon.

be affected ty tropical cyclone Nona, Coloma added that Aquino has the cyclone may make landfall over the cyclone may make landfall over the NDRRMC chief Undersecretary

which was forecast to intensify into ordered the Department of Social Northern Samar by Monday night. It Northern Samar by Monday night. Alexander Pama told media after the

a typhoon before it makes landfall Welfare and Development (DSWD) will cross landmass from Samar area As of noon today, the eye of the meeting that the areas placed under

Monday night. and other agencies to preposition to Southern Luzon. storm was estimated at 510 kilometers storm signal number 1 and Palawan

“Inihahanda na ang mga resources and relief goods in areas The NDRRMC, meanwhile, said east of Catarman, Northern Samar province are at risk from storm surge.

komunidad para sa posibleng paglikas that have been identified by weather that it has placed its operations center Public storm warning signal number Pama said they will also closely

kung matatayang malalagay sa bureau PAGASA. in Camp Aguinaldo on blue alert status. 1 has been raised over Catanduanes, monitor the sitution in Catarman,

panganib ang kanilang kalagayan. He said that based on Sunday It said that it has directed all its Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Tacloban and Daet, which have been

Kaya ito ay pinaghahandaan na ng morning’s pre-disaster risk assessment regional centers to conduct PDRAMs Masbate including Burias and Ticao projected to experience heavy rains

lahat ng ahensya ng pamahalaan,” meeting (PDRAM) at the National and raise respective alert levels islands, Northern Samar, Eastern from Nona.

P2-M fake, prohibited goods seized in Binondo, Divisoria Samar, Samar, Biliran, Leyte, Southern He added that the government will
POLICE have seized unlicensed and with unlicensed grooming products. they smugglers and illegal aliens Leyte and Dinagat province. issue advisories to areas that are prone
to landslide and flooding. n ALG, GMA News
fake goods in raids in a warehouse The report said the warehouse’s flood the market with fake products PAGASA said in its 11 a.m. advisory
that it may also raise on Sunday night / Published / December 13, 2015 / 1:29 pm

and a shop in Manila. owner, Kong Wai Yu, were not at the usually during the holidays.

In a report by GMA News’ area when the raid was conducted. “Eto yung kadalasan nilang

Saleema Refran on Balitanghali on The three Chinese nationals manning maluwag, maluwag lahat ng tao,

Saturday, the Manila Police District the shop in Divisoria, meanwhile, were busy, so hindi alam ng mga consumer

said its operatives seized boxes of arrested. natin na ito ay pwedeng harmful sa

fake lighters, baby wipes, mosquito Aside from selling prohibited kalusugan nila,” Ibay said.

repellents and insecticides, which products, the three Chinese nationals Ibay said the goods seized during

have been branded as unsafe by the are suspected of illegally entering the separate raids are worth at least

Food and Drug Administration from a the country because they could not P2 million.

warehouse in Binondo district. produce travel documents and their The owners of the shop in Divisoria

In a separate raid in a shop along passports. were charged with violating Republic

Juan Luna Street in Divisoria district, Senior Inspecdtor Rosalio Ibay Jr., Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the

policemen also seized a similar head of the Manila Police District’s Philippines. n Rie Takumi / ALG, GMA News /

prohibited brand of insecticides along Police Intelligence Operation Unit, said Published / December 12, 2015 / 3:03 pm