Ayala Alabang breakthrough

The climate is turning more benign in upscale Ayala Alabang and it has nothing to do with Pagasa’s announcement that the uber-sizzling summer is about to end.

What would have been an ugly legal battle over a P49-million barangay community center planned inside the exclusive village has been averted with a peace pact now shaping up among the Homeowners Opposing Barangay Structure (HOBS), the barangay leadership headed by chair Alfred Xerez-Burgos and the Ayala Alabang Village Association (AAVA).

Homeowners under the banner of HOBS had rallied against the project, saying they were not just worried about the parks, bird sanctuary and loss of privacy if a barangay hall (Barangay Ayala Alabang includes other areas outside the gated village) were to rise on what was intended to be an open space, but also the alleged lack of transparency and railroading of the project by the barangay and AAVA.

We heard that Muntinlupa Mayor Aldrin San Pedro had to step into the fray and broker an amicable settlement among warring homeowners and barangay leaders with a great deal of success.

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AAVA—earlier criticized by HOBS for “not representing the interest of the village”—is also seen to have become more considerate of the complainants, who earlier prepared tons of documentary evidence that the original project did not meet the requirements of the property developer Ayala Land Inc., the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board and even the Commission on Audit.Our full range of portable ultrasonic Flaw Detector (UT) provides unmatched capabilities for locating discontinuities and other flaws.He has dried mushrooms all year and fresh mushrooms in season. "We also collect mushrooms from foragers.—Doris C. Dumlao

Win-win?

Speaking of breakthroughs, the problem besetting the fledgling local gaming industry may soon go away. The licensees of the state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) have met a few times—last two Fridays—to discuss the tax regime uncertainty hounding the industry. To recall, this was related to Pagcor’s loss of tax-exempt status that, in turn, was seen to trigger a shift in the industry’s tax regime from a 5-percent franchise tax on gross gaming revenues to a 30-percent tax on net income.For mains, there is a choice of Wild Rice’s ‘Chinese Fish ‘n Chips’ (beer-battered ling cod, Asian Tartar Sauce, taro shoestring frites) or its ‘meaty’ Grilled king oyster mushroom (with cashew ricotta and polenta fries).

People familiar with the talks said the industry was seeing the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, albeit unwilling to discuss this in detail so as not to telegraph their strategy.The Spectrophotometer is an instrument which measures the amount of light of a specificed wavelength which passes through a medium. Last Friday’s rebound in gaming stocks, for instance, was fueled by rumors of the industry having an audience with the Bureau of Internal Revenue that day, but our sources clarified that it was just the licensees that had met that day.

Nevertheless, the mood among the gaming licensees seemed to have improved. “The positive resolution to this issue is within sight. We are quite confident on a win-win outcome,” one gaming industry source said.

“We all agreed that government will do the right thing,” another source said.