The Liberal Party’s endeavor to become the ruling party for the 2016 presidential elections is going to be a much longer and harder journey, as far as Central and Northern Luzon are concerned.
The Supreme Court en banc on Tuesday stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from purchasing the automated election machines that were used in the 2010 polls.
There’s “a wave of defiance” against court orders intended to protect human rights,” Supreme Court Administrator and spokesperson Midas Marquez noted in a speech on Wednesday afternoon as he addressed a media workshop in this city, where the Supreme Court justices and the Court of Appeals are holding their their annual summer sessions.
The trail of fugitive Major General Jovito Palparan has gone cold.
It will be very difficult to return to manual elections in the 2013 mid-term elections if groups questioning the Commission on Election’s plan to buy the automated counting machines is upheld by the courts, Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Wednesday.
The year 2011 saw central and northern Luzon suffer from nature’s wrath when strong typhoons triggered widespread flooding that destroyed crops, public infrastructure and private property, and disrupted the lives of the regions’ 19 million residents.
Beginning next year, the government will start moving whole communities, mostly in the eastern coast of northern Luzon, to safer areas.
Lalaine Nieves, 46, a Grade II teacher at Dacap Sur Elementary School in the coastal town of Bani in Pangasinan, is often moved to tears whenever she recounts how she trekked through mountains each day just to attend classes as a child.
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—Officials of the Commission on Audit (CoA) in the province are raising eyebrows for riding around in service vehicles issued to them by local government units (LGUs) whose finances they are supposed to be auditing. Two CoA auditors, lawyer Marciana Maniquiz and Amelia Barongan, were each given free use of a vehicle by [...]
BANI, Pangasinan—In this western Pangasinan town, at least three residents have breached the century mark, and their long lives have fascinated their children and relatives. Nine other residents are in their 90s and would celebrate their 100th birthday in a few years. Their stories have pricked the interest of Bani resident Josefina Eugenio, 55, who [...]
MANGALDAN, Pangasinan—Mention this town’s name, and “tapa” quickly comes to mind. “For more than a hundred years, making beef tapa has been a common venture among old families in this town’s local meat industry. Each family has its own distinct taste and personal touch,” says Mayor Herminio Romero. Councilor Alfredo Soriano, who owns a tapa [...]
Baguio City, Philippines—Officials here openly punned about that certain “problem” of President Benigno Aquino III as a way to attract volunteers for his administration’s reforestation program in northern Luzon. “When we fulfill this task, nothing will remain bald in this country except our President,” said Remigio de Leon, assistant secretary for Luzon of the Department [...]
ROSARIO, La Union—The 88-kilometer Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx), which the Aquino administration intends to complete in two to three years, will end in a proposed interchange here, but will it be at the doorsteps of the Cordillera, or the Ilocos region? Baguio City Rep. Bernardo Vergara prefers an exit of the P11-billion TPLEx to be [...]
