Textual harassment3/30/2023 ![]() That is the straight and narrow path for you! To avoid eviction, the locators simply had to sign a piece of paper, admitting that 1) they did not have the right to sue the BCDA, 2) they had no right to stay in their present houses, and 3) they would agree to join the side of the BCDA in any case in any court at any time in the future against anybody as the BCDA may deem necessary. Still, even without the settlement, the BCDA started to harass the retirees-and of course everybody else in Camp John Hay-by issuing eviction notices. The two sides earlier went through arbitration proceedings, and after the case was decided, the Baguio regional trial court issued to CJHDC a notice to vacate the property after the BCDA would pay for the P1.42 billion that BCDA owed the company. The problems of poor retirees in Baguio, who invested millions of their hard-earned pension, actually started when BCDA wanted CJHDC to vacate the project immediately. There-aside from the textual harassment, the poor retirees in Baguio must go face the threat of “trouble” supposedly from the Office of the President. The lawyer supposedly ordered him to refrain from filing for a temporary restraining order and injunction against the BCDA eviction notice to the “retirees” like him, threatening him with the statement “we could give you a lot of trouble”-or words to that effect. The retiree said that the woman, who claimed to be a lawyer from the Office of the President, gave her name as Michelle Nievres. Through the case, he hopes that he could save his rather sizable investment for what he thought would be his blissful “retirement” here, by asking the court to stop the BCDA from confiscating his residence located in Camp John Hay. In a long distance telephone interview, this retiree (who was in Baguio) told me that a woman threatened him recently as he went to the court to file a case against the BCDA. ![]() This foreign retiree happened to be one of those SRRV holders who dared to stand up against the BCDA, which issued an order to the Camp John Hay locators, including the foreign retirees, to vacate their residences. ![]() That was the so-called special resident retiree’s visa, issued by the Philippine government under the program of the Philippine Retirement Authority, with the promise of government protection against almost anything under and across and over the sun, as long as the retirees brought in oodles of cash.Īnyway, this poor fellow was one of those lured by the government to retire here, having invested more than P20 million in the “rights” over a residential property in Camp John Hay. The harassment tactic just had one recent victim-a retiree from abroad-who, many years ago, bought into the government program to entice foreign investments into the country, the one called SRRV.
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