Peace must reign in polls
Politicians out to win today’s election by force or by cash should stop in their tracks.
Politicians out to win today’s election by force or by cash should stop in their tracks.
A government report showing that the level of poverty in the country remained unchanged over the past six years despite robust economic growth drew various proposals from senatorial candidates and their supporters to address the problem.
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.
CEBU City south district Rep. Tomas Osmeña may be the family’s cook this Christmas, but political issues cannot seem to escape him as he touched on alleged missing Christmas lights.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is bracing itself for possible “zombie” attacks in the coming 2013 midterm elections.
My exposé in this space on Saturday identifying the officials in Davao Oriental province who are reported to be behind the illegal logging activities in the mountains of Baganga and Cateel towns has made me unpopular among some of my province mates, including my relatives.
Efforts to penalize politicians who habitually plaster their names and faces on government projects funded with taxpayers’ money finally gained a foothold in the Senate with Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s sponsorship speech on the so-called “anti-epal” bill before the chamber adjourned earlier this month.
Call it the Anti-Epal Movement’s first preemptive strike.
Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes urged the public on Saturday to take photos of posters and tarpaulins of politicians displayed in cemeteries on All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day.
Spare the schoolchildren, please. Politicians running for election next year should not plaster their names and faces on school bags and supplies that they will be distributing to students at the beginning of the new school year on Monday, a Catholic Church official said Saturday.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago blamed politicians, who are eyeing the 2013 senatorial elections, as one of the “biggest” sources of delays and confusions in the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
POLITICIANS and celebrities were in Cebu City to hobnob with the public for the Sinulog festivities yesterday.
The Internet naming of 10 Italian politicians as homosexual caused a furor Friday, with the country’s main gay rights group calling it a “wretched rag-bag of gossip” that did more harm than good.
