Thursday, July 14, 2005
Ahh the plot thickens......
This came from a column at the Philippine Star:
A plot as ‘pure’ as can be
Manila Golf Ear-Spies revealed that the "Hyatt 10" surprise resignation was actually planned in several meetings reportedly among Senate President Franklin Drilon, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, DTI Secretary Juan Santos, including GMA’s new Appointment Secretary Dodie Limcaoco (a known Cory man) at the Manila Golf Club. The meetings were supposedly held over several Fridays. The cover for the clandestine meetings was supposedly provided by Philippine Infrastructure Corp. (PIC) president Noel Kintanar (who also paid for the meetings) under the guise of discussing PIC activities. Kintanar, who is also president and board director of the Philippine National Construction Corp., also used the meetings to provide information to Drilon on different infrastructure projects, including the controversial North Luzon Railways project. Another name mentioned by the Spybiz source is that of Finance Undersecretary Emmanuel Bonoan, said to be Purisima’s man because of their previous stint together at SGV. Bonoan’s role is allegedly to complicate the crisis through the EVAT, by forcing business entities to implement it. Purisima and Kintanar reportedly take their orders from a well-known Mindanao businessman. It was allegedly the troika of Purisima, Bonoan, and Santos who bamboozled the other Cabinet secretaries and advisers to submit their very public resignations and call for GMA to resign. Come to think of it, those who have kept on eye on Purisima’s career say he has a quite a track record for staging coups. He was rewarded with the vice-chairmanship for his key role in the ouster of Gloria Tan Climaco as SGV chair in the mid-1990s.
Spy tidbiz: Mbc board disagree to agree
The Makati Business Club (MBC) Spy-Ring reported that there was an alleged shouting match between Executive Director Bill Luz and Trustee Ronnie Concepcion yesterday on the issue of supporting the MBC manifesto calling for GMA to resign. Concepcion reportedly changed his mind and wanted the constitutional process to take its course. In the meantime, some of the trustees said they weren’t in agreement with the manifesto in the first place. It seems the MBC trustees were in disagreement to agree on the manifesto that MBC chair Dick Romulo was so eager to announce.
A plot as ‘pure’ as can be
Manila Golf Ear-Spies revealed that the "Hyatt 10" surprise resignation was actually planned in several meetings reportedly among Senate President Franklin Drilon, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, DTI Secretary Juan Santos, including GMA’s new Appointment Secretary Dodie Limcaoco (a known Cory man) at the Manila Golf Club. The meetings were supposedly held over several Fridays. The cover for the clandestine meetings was supposedly provided by Philippine Infrastructure Corp. (PIC) president Noel Kintanar (who also paid for the meetings) under the guise of discussing PIC activities. Kintanar, who is also president and board director of the Philippine National Construction Corp., also used the meetings to provide information to Drilon on different infrastructure projects, including the controversial North Luzon Railways project. Another name mentioned by the Spybiz source is that of Finance Undersecretary Emmanuel Bonoan, said to be Purisima’s man because of their previous stint together at SGV. Bonoan’s role is allegedly to complicate the crisis through the EVAT, by forcing business entities to implement it. Purisima and Kintanar reportedly take their orders from a well-known Mindanao businessman. It was allegedly the troika of Purisima, Bonoan, and Santos who bamboozled the other Cabinet secretaries and advisers to submit their very public resignations and call for GMA to resign. Come to think of it, those who have kept on eye on Purisima’s career say he has a quite a track record for staging coups. He was rewarded with the vice-chairmanship for his key role in the ouster of Gloria Tan Climaco as SGV chair in the mid-1990s.
Spy tidbiz: Mbc board disagree to agree
The Makati Business Club (MBC) Spy-Ring reported that there was an alleged shouting match between Executive Director Bill Luz and Trustee Ronnie Concepcion yesterday on the issue of supporting the MBC manifesto calling for GMA to resign. Concepcion reportedly changed his mind and wanted the constitutional process to take its course. In the meantime, some of the trustees said they weren’t in agreement with the manifesto in the first place. It seems the MBC trustees were in disagreement to agree on the manifesto that MBC chair Dick Romulo was so eager to announce.
Most of the opinions in my various egroups (Ateneo/Xavier, Jfinex, etc) is that the President should undergo a constitutional process. If we gave President Erap a chance to go through an impechment process, why can't we then give PGMA the same process that Erap underwent? Is it because the opposition is so scared that they are not as moral as they want everyone to think???
The country's situation is getting ridiculous. Except for a few misguided so-called leaders in the business community (leaders of MBC, Finex, MAP), most businessmen want the President to undergo constitutional processes to determine whether she deserves to continue as President of country. I can say this because most of the people I've talked to or in my egroups are in agreement of this option.
While the rally was going on in Makati yesterday, I was fucking my brains out!!! Lol!!! There was hardly any traffic in the streets. Lol.
Can't wait to climb over the weekend and leave all this nonsense behind.
