The Senate presidency was on everyone’s mind in Malacañang on Wednesday when Sen. Franklin Drilon met with President Aquino. But the Palace played coy about Drilon being the presumptive Senate President.
Mild and moderate earthquakes hit parts of the Philippines Wednesday but no damages were reported, state volcanologists said.
Talk about the rich getting richer. Nobody did it better than outgoing Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar whose wealth increased by some P600 million last year, largely because of the country’s soaring stock market.
No need to mess up the election calendar. That was President Aquino’s reaction on Tuesday to a suggestion from Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. that the barangay (village) elections set by law for October this year be postponed to either next year or to 2015.
It ain’t over yet. The days are becoming wetter and bits of ice as large as fingernails fell on a portion of Mt. Makiling in Los Baños, Laguna province, during a heavy downpour past noon on Tuesday.
President Aquino has a ready answer for those tirelessly reviving Charter change (Cha-cha) at every opportunity: No.
The women and the youth are taking over the Senate.
John Andrey Rull has been confined at Philippine General Hospital for more than a month now due to hemangioma.
For over a month now, the central air-conditioning system at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 3 has not been functioning.
As the canvassing of votes for the party-list groups resumed, a poll watchdog on Monday called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to account for the 23.67 percent of election returns (ERs) that had not been electronically tabulated because of transmission glitches.
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has mobilized its volunteers to look into delays in the transmission of electronic results from precincts to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) transparency server in Manila.
The 1987 Constitution provides three modes for proposing amendments or revisions: by Congress upon three-fourths vote of all its members; by constitutional convention where delegates are elected; or through a people’s initiative upon direct petition of the required number of voters.
Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. brushed aside criticisms that the proclamations of winning senatorial candidates last week were premature, saying the poll body acted validly in using grouped canvass reports to project the victorious candidates.
