TACLOBAN CITY – Local government units and House of Representative in Eastern Visayas will be ruled again by same families with members of the region’s political clans leading in initial counts.
TACLOBAN CITY – Conduct of Elections has failed in a far flung village in Calbayog City with the 218 registered voters not showing up for fear of threats from village officials.
Filipino professionals sadly experiencing lack of substantial livelihood opportunities in our land, who bravely gamble their desire for economic uplift go abroad.
TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine midterm elections on Monday remained the same for most of the 58 million Filipino voters as killings, bomb explosions, intimidation, allegation of fraud due to PCOS machine glitches and vote buying dominated the event.
TACLOBAN CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) dared vote- buying complainants to formally file cases against perpetrators to stop this widespread practice.
TACLOBAN CITY-Amid accusations of massive and rampant vote-buying, a former city official claimed that “the recent electoral exercise was the dirtiest and most expensive so far” in this city.
CATARMAN, Northern Samar – Violence continues to rise as the elections gets hotter in this province, with the recent incidents killing two identified supporters of politicians here.
CAMP KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte — Eastern Visayas top cop Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Ragadio Soria assured the public that security measures in all polling centers in the region are in place and expects the midterm elections to be peaceful and orderly as Waraynons troops to different precincts to cast their votes .
TACLOBAN CITY – Despite malfunctions of few precinct count optical scanning (PCOS) machines, voting was pushed through in all areas of the region yesterday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said.
MANILA (Updated) — The Philippine government welcomed Sunday the release of four Filipino UN peacekeepers who were abducted last Tuesday in Al Jamla, Syria.
