QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Office of the Vice President (OVP) is busy preparing for the oath-taking ceremony of Leni Robredo to succeed President Rodrigo Duterte.
Champagne flowed at the OVP on Christmas Day after Robredo and her staff heard the news that Duterte has tendered his resignation.
Little did they know that it was the younger Duterte — Paolo — who resigned as Vice Mayor of Davao City, and not the President.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – So it turns out it was not only former President Manuel Roxas who disappeared from the one hundred peso bill. Apparently, the Aquinos —- Ninoy and Cory — have also been erased from the five hundred peso bill.
It all started when a woman withdrew several P100 bills from an ATM only to discover that the photo of Roxas has been erased.
When it launched an investigation into the mystery, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) discovered several P500 bills with the faces of the Aquinos all but erased from the paper currency.
So before you distribute those red envelopes to your godchildren this holiday season, make sure there are no missing faces on your peso bills.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reacted swiftly to a report that a lady who withdrew several P100 bills from an ATM got currency with a missing face, that of former President Manuel Roxas.
BSP officials said the the “erasure” of the photo of President Roxas was made upon the insistent request of the surviving members of the Roxas family, including former Presidential candidate Mar Roxas.
In a petition sent to BSP, the Roxas family said that they no longer wanted the late President’s face on the P100 bill because it is an insult to his legacy.
”P100 nowadays almost has no value, and to have the President’s face on the bill negates all the economic reform programs instituted during the Roxas administration,” Mar told The Adobo Chronicles.
Shall we call this, “saving face?”
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