Who’s afraid of Kris Aquino? A senatorial candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) on Saturday belittled the impact President Benigno Aquino III’s younger sister might have on the Team PNoy ticket at this stage of the campaign.
Florencio “Bem” Noel’s mayoralty bid got a boost from President Benigno Aquino III’s youngest sister and popular TV host, Kris, who declared that the mayoralty contest here was already “game over.”
An outgoing party-list congressman who is running for mayor of this city is facing a complaint at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for harassing and intimidating a radio commentator who has been criticizing the candidate.
Two elderly women were killed on Tuesday when a fire razed their two-story house along Real Street this city.
Virginia Roa, 65, was standing outside the airport as early as 6 a.m. Saturday, waiting for “my governor” to arrive.
Government officials and employees of this city will celebrate the holidays richer by up to P25,000 each.
The Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas has declared an outbreak of typhoid fever in four Leyte towns as the number of people afflicted with the disease has reached nearly 200 and has claimed the life of a 3-year-old boy. Magilda Espinosa, district nurse supervisor at the Carigara District Hospital, said the boy, a resident of Barangay Guindapunan East in Carigara town, died at the hospital on Nov. 4.
A police officer and another suspect have been arrested in connection with a heist involving P8 million in funds for government doles to the poor in a case that is raising more questions than what police are willing to answer, including where P4 million of the money went.
The Sto. Niño Shrine and Heritage Museum in Tacloban City is still the top tourist destination in Leyte, but it is fast losing its grandeur.
