The Commission on Elections here on Tuesday said it was not possible to forgo special elections in a village in Compostela Valley province in Mindanao, whose ballots were switched with those of Baguio City in Northern Luzon, because it would affect the standing of the contending mayoral candidates in that town.
The New People’s Army (NPA) are allegedly holding seven policemen escorting four barangay (village) captains who they claimed were out to
buy votes for a congressional candidate in the village of Paquibato, a spokesman for the rebels said Monday.
Police arrested 120 people, eight of them minors, for violating the liquor ban, which took effect starting 12 a.m. Sunday, on the eve of the country’s midterm elections.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the religious group “Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name,” whose blessings political candidates have sought in the previous presidential elections, has announced the list of 12 senatorial bets his flock will support in the upcoming May 13 elections.
Communist rebels admitted they have in their custody a policeman and a soldier, who went missing in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley last week.
Communist guerrillas are calling on voters in the city’s second congressional district to end the 20-year-old political rule of the Garcia family, but have kept silent on its strongest ally, Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
The communist New People’s Army (NPA) has called on the people in the second district here to dislodge the over 20-year-old rule of the Garcia political clan, saying it only resulted in the exploitation of the people, especially during the election time.
Businesswoman Joji Ilagan-Bian describes her electoral battle against a political family which has dominated the city’s second congressional district for the past 21 years as “like fighting the gods of Olympus.”
“It’s like fighting the Gods of Olympus,” businesswoman Joji Ilagan-Bian describes how it is to run against an established political family who dominated the city’s second district— the area stretching from Agdao, Buhangin to Bunawan —in the last 21 years.
Reflecting on his upcoming graduation, a teenage Dibabawun student recalls going to class with an empty stomach as his most difficult time in school.
Tarsier colonies have been discovered in two villages in Southern Mindanao, exciting environmental officials who had always thought the tiny primate could not survive outside Bohol.
Environment officials are excited by the recent discovery of tarsier colonies in two areas in southern Mindanao.
She survived when a typhoon hit this town in December last year. But three months after Typhoon “Pablo” ravaged this town, Cristina Jose, 40, mother of three, wife to husband Danilo, and a village councilor in the remote village of Binondo, did not survive the bullet that pierced her body and exited her breast.
