Even to this day, many Tarlaqueños are wondering why President Aquino did not go all-out for his candidates in his home province the way he did for his senatorial candidates in Team PNoy.
Despite glitches in the computer machine, President Aquino on Monday said he was happy at how the elections had turned out.
A leader of communist rebels operating in Central Luzon has admitted responsibility for the murder of a mayoral candidate in San Jose town in Tarlac last week.
Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto and Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle led the golden anniversary celebration of the diocese of Tarlac with 50 other bishops from across the country.
A mayoral candidate was gunned down by two men while waiting for his turn to speak in a community meeting in the remote upland village of Iba here on Monday, police said.
If there is one message that President Benigno Aquino III’s visit to this town gave to his province mates on Wednesday, it was that the much ballyhooed Nationalist People’s Coalition-Liberal Party (NPC-LP) partnership here is dead.
An uncle of President Benigno Aquino said the battle in the midterm elections was not between the administration and an opposition party, but between pro-Aquino forces supporting different candidates for president in 2016.
TARLAC CITY—With two of the most influential political personalities in the country coming from Tarlac, how are local alliances in the province shaping up? It is still President Aquino’s home turf as Tarlaqueños await his confirmation of local candidates. But Tarlac remains very much the political nest of Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr., the President’s [...]
Most were happy, others were overwhelmed, and still others were confused, even angry, as the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Wednesday released the final list of 6,212 beneficiaries of the sprawling sugar plantation owned by the family of President Aquino, which was ordered distributed to its workers by the Supreme Court.
Not all is well in President Aquino’s home city.
Politicians in President Benigno Aquino III’s home province have pledged to abide by a peace covenant so Tarlac would become a model of peaceful elections in May.
President Aquino greeted the first day of the Christmas season by extolling the values that the “belen” (crèche) symbolized as he graced the awards night of the 6th Belenismo sa Tarlac on Saturday.
Eight years ago on November 6, farm workers at Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac City walked out from the sugar plantation, set up barricades, camped out and called for the revocation of the 1989 stock distribution option (SDO) as a way to implement agrarian reform. Ten days later, on Nov. 16, violence at the picket lines [...]
