With a voting population of just over 800, the special elections for five communities in Barangay (the village of) Gabi here could become one of the costliest, at least for the pockets of the candidates.
More than 70 health workers, social workers, nuns, journalists and environmentalists have accused government soldiers of sabotaging their transportation, which had forced them to spend the night in a hinterland village in Baganga, Davao Oriental.
Bonnet-wearing gunmen harassed a group of local politicians campaigning in Kabuntalan Mother town in Maguindanao on Wednesday, two days before President Benigno Aquino III campaigns for Liberal Party senatorial candidates in the province.
Four persons were wounded when a bomb exploded in Tubod town in Lanao del Norte on Monday morning.
The regional police in Eastern Visayas will be conducting unscheduled visits to the various jails in the region for a prisoner headcount to make sure politicians don’t use any of them to harass voters in the coming elections.
The military is now prohibited from issuing a hit list—officially called “order of battle”—with the enactment of a law against enforced disappearances, Malacañang said on Saturday.
The Nationalist People’s Coalition on Saturday accused the Aquino administration of harassing its party member, Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino, in anticipation of the 2013 elections.
A leader of the human rights group Karapatan in Sorsogon on Friday called on the military in the province to stop its “continuous psychological harassment” against him and instead charge him in court if he has committed any crime.
POLICE arrested a man caught carrying packs of suspected shabu in a checkpoint in barangay Umapad, Mandaue City.
CEBU CITY REP. Tomas Osmeña yesterday promised to file a case against barangay captain Benjamin Zabate of Sawang Calero for harassing his youth leaders last August.
A HOUSEMAID is accusing the chief of police of barangay Mabolo in Cebu City of humiliating and harassing her inside the police precinct.
A businessman-critic of Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza decried what he called harassment by City Hall that has put pressure on him and members of the Mactan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).
Chen Guangcheng’s sudden change of heart to leave China after insisting for days he wanted to stay has caught his American supporters off guard. But his reason was simple: His family’s safety came first.
