09.28.07
Ready, AIM, combustion
The series of little sparks within the Asian Institute of Management have now turned into a prairie fire, with the leftist Kilusang Mayo Uno even threatening to picket the region’s first business school in support of the besieged AIM Faculty Association.
Not wanting to unduly upset the corporate benefactors and the Zobel landlords, the still straightlaced AIM faculty, according to the grapevine, diplomatically declined the street annoyance tactics being offered by their newly-found proletarian allies.
Still, the now perceptibly militant AIM professors will today pursue a scheduled symposium on academic freedom at the ACCEED building behind the AIM campus, to be attended by the academic unions of the University of the Philippines, De La Salle, and Ateneo de Manila.
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But, in an 11th-hour setback, AIM president Francis Estrada, who was reportedly abroad, got wind of the symposium and prevailed on the ACCEED management, which is an AIM adjunct project, to cancel the contract and deny the AIM faculty union use of the venue.
According to the grapevine, suspended AIM professors Victor Limlingan and Emmanuel Leyco will this morning literally knock on the doors of the ACCEED building to honor their symposium contract and, in a sign of the faculty union’s increasing savviness, are even bringing in, courtesy of the Virtusio public relations firm, a couple of television news teams to record the event. Read the rest of this entry »
UP School of Economics professors Raul Fabella and Emmanuel de Dios yesterday stuck and twisted the stiletto on former Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri during the continuation of the televised hearing on the controversial national broadband network project.
The Diliman duo complained about the quality of staff work at the National Economic Development Authority and how it has degenerated through the years from the time of their mentor, Gerardo Sicat.
The two of course did not say that Neri only holds an MBA degree, with BSBA marketing for his undergraduate course, and that many of the present NEDA staff come from the Diliman campus, their very own students.
UP School of Economics professors Raul Fabella and Emmanuel de Dios yesterday stuck and twisted the stiletto on former Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri during the continuation of the televised hearing on the controversial national broadband network project.
The Diliman duo complained about the quality of staff work at the National Economic Development Authority and how it has degenerated through the years from the time of their mentor, Gerardo Sicat.
The two of course did not say that Neri only holds an MBA degree, with BSBA marketing for his undergraduate course, and that many of the present NEDA staff come from the Diliman campus, their very own students.
09.26.07
Elizalde Static
September 26, 2007
AILING broadcast magnate Fred Elizalde has been meeting with his lawyers and trusted lieutenants to prepare the country’s oldest radio network for the inevitable management transition.
According to the grapevine, Elizalde, 67, wants to bring on board Thalassa Mary Adela Elizalde, his 22-year-old daughter by the late beauty queen Joan Gatlin, possibly with the young Elizalde even assuming the position of chairman of the Manila Broadcasting Corp. when the time comes.
Sasha, as the Elizalde daughter is called by family and friends, is currently learning the ropes of the trade under the tutelage of Juan Manuel Elizalde, her half brother and MBC vice president for operations.
Sasha actually does not need to work, being the sole heiress o f the considerable property-based estate of her late mother and her still feisty grandmother.
Gaisanos move into Makati
September 26, 2007
After their initial foray with a department store at the Market! Market! in The Fort, the Gaisanos of Cebu now have the confidence to move right into Makati, with a supermarket planned at the corner of Malugay and Chino Roces, right across where taipan Lucio Tan is building three residential condo towers, a businessmen’s hotel, and a call center.
The Gaisanos plan to build the supermarket in the former Vicks property, which had been on the market for some time at P50,000 a square meter.
The Dominican priests now plan to relocate the controversial UST Medical Tower project from the historic University of Santo Tomas campus in Sampaloc to Sta. Rosa, Laguna in a new township being created by taipan Lucio Tan.
The Dominican priests now plan to relocate the controversial UST Medical Tower project from the historic University of Santo Tomas campus in Sampaloc to Sta. Rosa, Laguna in a new township being created by taipan Lucio Tan.
09.24.07
Judicious considerations
September 24, 2007
ALL the 14 Supreme Court justices will meet again tomorrow to finally decide the Maysilo-Araneta University estate case, but at the rate the inhibitions have been dwindling their number, there could only be eight to nine justices left to decide on the hotly-contested multi-billion fortune.
According to the grapevine, five justices have already inhibited themselves, namely, Chief Justice Reynato Puno, Antonio Carpio, Eduardo Nachura, Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, and Cancio Garcia.
Garcia, ironically, was part of the Third Division that upheld in November 2005 the title of CLT Realty Development to the 80-hectare estate over that of Araneta University and other claimants.
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According to the grapevine, the five justices are related to the parties or their counsels personally or professionally, or had dealt with the case in the past before their appointments to the high court.
The five, do not hold your breath, may even become six.
The high-end Ayalas are now moving into the Megaworld market; their Avida Towers Makati West which is being built at the flood-prone Malugay St. in Makati offers condo units as small as 22 square meters.
