Four people were arrested in Grace Park, Caloocan City, for allegedly selling cell phone signal jammers on Friday, a day after police and election officials warned that these electronic devices could be used to disrupt next month’s computerized elections.
Former military comptroller Jacinto Ligot on Friday posted a P66,000 bail at the Sandiganbayan for the perjury charges filed against him.
Any pending appeal before the Supreme Court will have to wait until after May.
The Court of Appeals has kept actor Aga Muhlach in the congressional race in Camarines Sur’s fourth district, maintaining that he is a registered voter in the province and turning down an appeal by a group of residents from San Jose town.
Now that he is a reformed environmental champion, Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn has no qualms about admitting during campaign rallies that he used to destroy Palawan’s forests.
Twenty-seven years after the ouster of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the public will finally get to see the fabulous jewelry collection amassed by Marcos’ wife, now Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, during the 20 years they held power.
She’s in a bind, but she’s not taking things sitting down, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said, amid a contempt suit filed against her by one of the principal suspects in the January 2011 murder of Palawan broadcaster Gerry Ortega.
Former First Lady Imelda Marcos’ jewelry from the so-called Hawaii collection and the contested 18.5-hectare prime commercial property Payanig sa Pasig are among the P18.2 billion worth of recovered ill-gotten assets of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos that the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) plans to sell within the next two years.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro has created an Election Task Force to assist some 240,000 public school teachers who will man the election precincts during the May 13 polls.
Some 240,000 public school teachers who will serve as election inspectors in the May 13 elections have been assured that they will be insured, secured and assisted by lawyers from “harassment suits.”
Ten former government-appointed directors in two sequestered companies risk being haled to court for the excessive pay and allowances they allocated for themselves during their tenure.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) will come up in two weeks’ time with its preliminary findings on the offshore trust of Ilocos Gov. Imee Marcos and her three sons in the British Virgin Islands.
A bystander, seeing the candidate wearing a yellow campaign vest at a provincial campaign sortie, remarked: “There goes one of the members of the Cory troops against the coup d’etat.”
