NBI arrests 2 women for real estate fraud – news report.
Allegedly, the two women, most likely acting as “dicers” or sib-agents, have no license for such trade from the Professional Regulations Commission.
Personally we believe that such activity as helping land owners find buyers of their properties need not be strictly regulated. After all, people doing such are just making a living. In fact the property owners would readily appreciate the efforts of some if they can be immediately linked to anybody who has direct contact with interested buyers.
What we feel law enforcement authorities like the NBI should be strongly running after are those who demand in advance monetary consideration as “finder’s fee” then pocket the money and vanish in thin air.
And we suppose that this is the case for the two women arrested. Again, the people, most especially the law enforcers, should be doubly wary of these kinds of “scammers.”
Clearly, the complaining victims, who could either be the interested property acquirer or the ones wanting to dispose of their land, should be wary of the saying: “Buyers beware.” Or should it be “sellers beware?”
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Finally, the long-dreamt of project of then 3rd district councilor lawyer Petite Principe has come to realization.
We mean the Davao City Special Needs Intervention Center for Children (DCSNICC). It’s been years in coming but last March 21, the center’s soft inauguration signaled that it is ready for operation.
In a chance meeting yesterday, Ms. Principe, who is running again for councilor of the third district, told us that the facility is already provided with the necessary personnel to cater to the specific needs of children that are to be housed or attended to at the DCSNICC.
The personnel are composed of a center administrator, developmental pediatricians, an audiologist, a resident occupational therapist, two resident physical therapists, and 5 auxiliary teachers.
However, according to the lady lawyer and former councilor, full service for the children with special needs may not yet be provided as some of the equipment needed are still to be delivered from Manila since there are no local suppliers.
Petite, however, expressed elation that her dreamed project is finally operational, even if not fully. She said every year that passed more and more children with special needs are born in Davao City, and if their special needs are not properly addressed, they could become problems not only for their families but for society in general.
But now, with the center ready to serve this children’s sector, Petite says parents already have the needed intervention center to run to.
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Indeed, there are a number of factors that could possibly lead to the disintegration of the Alyansa ng Bagong Pilipinas Senatorial coalition. The surest is the knowledge that there are candidates whose close relatives in the Senate, House of Representatives, and within their families are not supportive of the impeachment move against Vice President Sara Duterte. The Senatorial bets of the Alyansa ng Bagong Pilipinas, whose loyalty to the President’s administration is in doubt, are Camille Villar, re-electinist Sen. Bong Revilla, Pia Cayetano, and, of course, Presidential sister Imee Marcos.
Camille’s father former Senate President Manny Villar, is openly frank in his support of former President Rodrigo Duterte with his condemnation of the latter’s arrest and subsequent hand-over to the ICC. Understandable, of course, is the stand of the Villar patriarch. His businesses have billions of pesos in investments in Duterte’s turf. He could not afford to have it jeopardized.
In the case of Revilla, his wife and son did not sign the impeachment of the VP by the Lower House. Pia Cayetano, on the other hand, has his brother Allan, who is a Duterte loyalist. What with all the favors he got during the former President’s term.
Imee, on the other hand, wants to get the assurance that she gets re-elected by “sailing in two rivers at the same time.” Meaning, she wants to get a share of the votes from Duterte’s supporters and, at the same time, those votes from the backers of his brother’s administration coalition.
But somehow, her motives have gone a bit farther. She is now getting noticed by her brother and her fellow senatorial candidates in the administration line-up.
