P Noy as chief campaigner
By Malou Guanzon-ApalisokToday is D-day for senatorial, congressional and local candidates as they vie for 17,000 electoral positions in the country’s second automated elections.
Today is D-day for senatorial, congressional and local candidates as they vie for 17,000 electoral positions in the country’s second automated elections.
At the weekly 888 News Forum held last Tuesday in Marco Polo Plaza, Cebu City south district Rep. Tomas “Tommy” Osmeña said the mayoralty race remains fluid, indicating there is no issue that has polarized the public enough for voters to take a vehement stand or convincing positions either for or against the candidates. Tommy [...]
The campaign for the May 13, 2013 midterm elections, which winds up in a matter of six days competes with the average daily temperature, at 30 degrees Celsius to 33 degrees Celsius. It is scorching hot.
At the third quarterly meeting of the Cebu Citizens-Press Council that I attended upon the invitation of this paper’s publisher, Eileen Mangubat, I could almost hear the snickers of some media colleagues when a young woman stood up to give updates about a citizens’ campaign against vote-buying.
Who is Johnny de los Reyes and what has he done to make Talisay City politics less, if not no longer predictable? Kinsa ka man nga moparang Eddiegul? This was the question I asked businessman Johnny de los Reyes, a.k.a. JVR to Talisaynons during the 888 News Forum last Tuesday. JVR is running for mayor [...]
Dagupan City—More than 120 theologians, academics, religious, seminarians and students mostly from the University of Santo Tomas and from other parts of Luzon converged in this northern city since Sunday for the 3rd Asia-Oceania Mariological Conference. I owe the privilege of joining the gathering to Sister Isabell Nauman, a secular nun of the Schoenstatt Sisters [...]
The catchy phrase outlines the series of candidates’ fora which reels off on Wednesday at the Cebu Cultural Center of the University of the Philippines Cebu in Lahug, Cebu City.
In boxing, fighters normally wear gloves so they don’t inflict too much injury on each other. When gloves are taken off during an election, expect the match to be cruel and nasty.
Pope Francis, the first Latin American and Jesuit Pope is having a honeymoon with press people whom he charms without really trying.
The election of a new Pope begins tomorrow, a process that is hard to predict in terms of how many days or weeks it would last or what the outcome would be. There is no tanto papabile or leading contender among 115 cardinals unlike in previous conclaves where Europeans, especially Italians, were always the frontrunners.
After last Monday’s horrendous traffic that stalled practically every human activity near the old Mactan-Mandaue Bridge causing people’s tempers and blood pressure to rise, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and its contractor were forced to reschedule work hours in paving the lane from Lapu-Lapu City going to the bridge.
For the second time, the first was in 1988 when he ran for mayor against then Cebu City OIC mayor Jose “Boy” Cuenco, former mayor and incumbent Cebu City south district Rep. Tomas “Tommy” Osmeña wages a tough electoral battle, one that will test his skills and the influence of the political machine Bando Osmeña – Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK). He is running for mayor against a former ally, incumbent Mayor Michael “Mike” Rama.
After the stunning resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, many people are getting excited over the prospects of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle becoming the next pope.
