Lola Trining, 100, never too old to vote, to hope
By Jerome C. Balinton
Unable to walk after suffering from a stroke in 2010, Trinidad Inciong-Sayo, fondly called Lola Trining, proved she is never too old to vote and to hope for a brighter future.
Unable to walk after suffering from a stroke in 2010, Trinidad Inciong-Sayo, fondly called Lola Trining, proved she is never too old to vote and to hope for a brighter future.
Going by the partial yet already substantial count of both the Comission on Elections and the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, administration candidate Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV stands to become the fourth so-named senator in Philippine legislative history.
He was once the most powerful man in Antique, who was jailed for nine years on charges that he had his staunch political rival killed shortly before the People Power revolt in 1986.
It took Dante Tabunar 25 years—a time spent raising a family and taking different jobs, including selling balut—to finally achieve his lifelong dream: a college degree.
April this year is turning out to be a particularly busy month. This summertime, it’s vacation and travel time for many, and hard-working time for most of us, as we cope with this unusually sweltering heat in this equally heated pre-election, season, and keeping up with fast-breaking events in the country as well as the rest of the world thanks to multimedia.
Business must be good for this mortician. He now owns his business and, since turning to politics, can even afford to raffle off his monthly salary as a public official to his constituents.
Three years after his separation from his ex-wife, Christine, Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero still finds himself playing the role of a mother to their five-year-old twins.
An activist? Yes. A communist? No. Teodoro “Teddy” Casiño swears he’s neither a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) nor a lapdog of Jose Maria Sison, the self-exiled founding chairman of the Maoist movement.
Once considered for the presidency by his former party in the 2010 elections, reelectionist Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Wednesday said he had no plans to run for either the presidency or the vice presidency in 2016.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Tuesday celebrates his 86th birthday as the first former pope in over 700 years at his temporary home of Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence near Rome.
Polish-born billionaire Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a maid who married into the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was buried Monday in her childhood town of Wroclaw.
Senatorial candidate Jamby Madrigal, who’s running under the administration ticket, suggests that Sen. Ping Lacson help the Bureau of Customs go after oil smugglers.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday they were saddened by the death of former premier Margaret Thatcher at the age of 87.
