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04/09/2026

BACIWA JVA Partner Hiraya: From Beerhouses and Beauty Parlors to Water Utility Operator

Hiraya Water Corporation’s competence to manage a water utility came under serious scrutiny during the Senate Committee on Public Services hearing on September 3, 2026, after Senator Raffy Tulfo questioned the company’s declared nature of business.

During the hearing, Tulfo pointed to Hiraya’s corporate records filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prior to May 29, 2026. Based on those filings, Hiraya’s stated business activities included the operation of beerhouses, beauty parlors, refreshment and snack bars, and similar establishments—but did not indicate water utility operations.

The revelation raised questions about Hiraya’s qualifications and experience in managing a water utility, particularly given its role in the Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) joint venture agreement.

Hiraya Water Corporation took over the operations of PrimeWater Infrastructure Corporation, which entered into a 25-year joint venture project with BACIWA for the development and operation of the city’s water system.

The Senate inquiry has consequently placed the spotlight on Hiraya’s corporate background, qualifications, and capacity to operate a major public water utility—and whether its experience and declared business activities were sufficient to meet the requirements of the BACIWA joint venture.

The questions raised during the hearing could have significant implications for the future of water service in Bacolod City, particularly for consumers who depend on BACIWA and its private-sector partner for reliable, affordable, and efficient water services.

29/08/2026

HEARTBREAKING NEWS

Joyce, 62, an amputee and dialysis patient and a former employee of Vallacar Transit, Inc. assigned to the Accounting Division at the company’s main office, has died.

After 27 years of dedicated service marked by honesty and loyalty, Joyce passed away on August 27, 2026, after a long battle with complications from kidney failure. Until her final days, she was also fighting for justice over what she maintained was her illegal termination from the company by the management controlled by Olivia, Ginnette and Leo Rey Yanson.

According to Joyce, there was no prior notice, no hearing, and no opportunity for her to explain or defend herself. She said she was simply and unexpectedly dismissed one day in September 2019.

Joyce was the family’s lone breadwinner. At the time of her illegal termination, she was also helping shoulder the medical needs of her ailing mother. Suddenly finding herself without a job, she was left without a source of income at a time when she was already most vulnerable.

The alleged reason for her dismissal? She was reportedly “suspected” of being sympathetic to Roy, Emily, Celina, and Ricky Yanson, collectively known as the Yanson 4, who were then resisting the efforts of their mother, Olivia Yanson, to recover shares that had allegedly been relinquished and distributed to the four children by their mother and father, Dr. Ricardo Yanson Jr., within the Yanson Group of Bus Companies conglomerate.

For Joyce, 27 years of honest and faithful service—from 1992 to 2019—seemed to have been thrown away in an instant.

She did not receive a single centavo in compensation from the time of her dismissal until the day she breathed her last.

Joyce is now gone, but her story remains.

May her memory be a blessing and a reminder to her former co-employees who, like her, suffered the same fate since 2019.

And may the elusive justice Joyce sought in the final years of her life from the group of Olivia, Ginnette and Leo Rey Yanson finally find its way to those who continue to fight for it.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

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27/08/2026

Javi Benitez and Thirdy Marañon 2025 election results

26/08/2026

FROM EMPLOYEES TO DETAINEES

Twenty-one (21) employees of Vallacar Transit, Incorporated endured what they described as unimaginable mental and emotional torture for six (6) days—from October 31 to November 6, 2019.

Their ordeal began after an alleged unlawful arrest during a raid by combined elements of the military and police on a local labor union office, where the employees had gone to seek legal assistance. They were, by their account, simply in the right place at the wrong time.

During their detention, they were allegedly questioned and taunted by their custodians because of their sympathetic views toward the Yanson 4. In the process, they became unwilling casualties of the bitter sibling conflict involving the children of the late Dr. Ricardo B. Yanson, Sr. over the management and control of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies, the Philippines' largest bus conglomerate.

What happened to these employees raises troubling questions about the circumstances of their arrest, detention, and interrogation—and about why ordinary workers seeking legal assistance allegedly found themselves treated as if they were connected to a much larger conflict.

Listen to Ramil and Richie as they recount the harrowing experiences they endured during their six-day detention and the alleged efforts of their military interrogators to link them to the Yanson 4, seemingly treating their association or sympathies as though they were connected to communist terrorists.

Their stories offer a disturbing glimpse into what happened to twenty-one (21) employees who, caught in the crossfire of a bitter corporate and family dispute, suddenly found themselves transformed from ordinary workers into detainees.

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24/08/2026

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20/08/2026

HEARTBREAKING. Her ordeal began one day in September 2019, when Joyce was summoned by an administrative officer to an isolated building within the sprawling YGBC compound in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City. There, she was handed her termination papers.

There was, she says, no prior notice. No hearing. No opportunity to explain or defend herself.

She had reported for work that morning like any ordinary day, ready to perform the same duties she had faithfully carried out for nearly three decades. But instead of going home after another day's work, she went home jobless — an aged woman too old to seek another employment, an amputee, a dialysis patient, and the family's lone breadwinner.

Her responsibilities did not end with losing her job. Joyce was also helping shoulder the medical expenses of her 86-year-old mother while continuing to finance her own regular hemodialysis treatments.

Rubbing salt in the wound, Joyce received no monetary compensation whatsoever for nearly three decades of service to Vallacar Transit. Not a single centavo, after 27 years of honest and faithful work.

For Joyce, it was not merely the loss of a job. It was the sudden loss of livelihood, security, dignity, and hope—at a time in her life when she was most vulnerable and most in need of compassion.

This is the story of Joyce, 62 years old, an amputee and dialysis patient, and a former cashier at the Accounting Division of Vallacar Transit Incorporated, the company that operates Ceres Liner buses throughout the Visayas. After 27 years of dedicated and faithful service, from 1992 to 2019, Joyce was allegedly illegally dismissed from her job by what has been referred to as the Yanson 3 —Olivia, Ginnette, and Leo Rey Yanson.

The alleged reason for her dismissal? She was “suspected” of being sympathetic to the Yanson 4 amid the bitter sibling conflict involving the legal tug-of-war over the ownership and control of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies (YGBC), the Philippines’ biggest bus conglomerate.

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16/08/2026

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12/08/2026

Yanson 3 Can't Bury the Truth

Antonino "Tony" Villaflores Zerna, 78, a resident of Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, had the misfortune of being tagged as the city's seventh most wanted person after a series of criminal complaints were filed against him, which he claims were allegedly orchestrated by the Yanson family faction led by his first cousin, Olivia Villaflores Yanson, with her children Ginnette Yanson-Dumancas and Leo Rey Yanson who are collectively known as the "Yanson 3." The cases were filed before the Department of Justice in Manila and the Regional Trial Court in Batangas City. However, all of these cases were eventually dismissed and Zerna was acquitted.

His wife, Heidi Hong Zerna, died on September 19, 2023, from medical complications that he attributes to the severe stress brought about by the criminal cases filed against him. Months earlier, she had spent 24 hours with him in the city jail following his arrest on carnapping charges on January 13, 2023.

The Yansons are owners of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies (YGBC), the biggest multi-billion bus conglomerate in the Philippines, which was founded by the couple Dr. Ricardo B. Yanson and Olivia V. Yanson. YGBC operates Ceres Liner buses in the Visayas and some parts of Luzon as well as the Bachelor Express, Mindanao Star and Rural Transit buses in Mindanao.

In a candid interview with members of the Bacolod City media, Zerna said that although his wife is now dead and buried, the "Yanson 3" cannot bury the truth that the stress she endured during the prosecution of those criminal cases contributed to the rapid decline of her health and eventual death.

Zerna also disclosed that, at one time after his employment at the Yanson bus company, Olivia Villaflores Yanson told him during breakfast at the Yanson residence in Capitolville Subdivision, Bacolod City, in the presence of his wife, Heidi, and Olivia's husband, Dr. Ricardo B. Yanson Sr., that she and her husband had already relinquished all of their shares in the Yanson Group of Bus Companies and had distributed them equally among their six children.

According to Zerna, although Dr. Ricardo B. Yanson Sr. is now dead and buried, the "Yanson 3" cannot bury the truth that, before his death, he and his wife had already ceded their respective shares in the family business to their children.

Zerna further claimed that the couple's eldest son, Roy Yanson, privately confided to him that Olivia had allegedly attempted to persuade the siblings to sign legal documents transferring and assigning their respective shares back to their mother. According to Zerna, the children firmly refused to do so in order to protect their father's desire for them to own the bus empire among themselves equally and never alter that property arrangement ever.

07/08/2026

Full story on the next post.

18/07/2026

Antonino Villaflores Zerna, 78 years old, 1st cousin of the Vallacar Transit Matriarch Olivia Villaflores Yanson meets the press to tell his story.

For 35 years of service albeit broken, he had served the company faithfully, first as a cashier, then bookkeeper, family driver, assistant finance manager while in Davao, admin manager, branch manager in Iloilo, and later regional manager based in Bacolod.

He also had stints in Cebu, Bohol and Cagayan and even as farm manager before he tendered his voluntary retirement and devoted himself to sugarcane farming.

It saddens him to see the siblings up against each other telling the local media he was present when the couple, OVY and her late husband, said everything was relinquished to and will be shared equally among the six (6) Yanson children.

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