The Philippine Star
July 2nd, 2012 at 05:44pm
Under Current Events
FROM A DISTANCE By Carmen N. Pedrosa (The Philippine Star) Updated July 01, 2012 12:00 AM Comelec seems bent on using the PCOS regardless of unresolved issues. Are Filipinos being disenfranchised slowly but surely? Comelec renewed the PCOS contract illegally after the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona, with the intimidated Supreme Court voting in [...]
Continue Reading What’s happening to PCOS?
Tags: Biliran, PCOS, smartmatic, The Philippine Star
By jalmz
March 10th, 2012 at 10:46pm
Under Current Events
SHOOTING STRAIGHT By Bobit S. Avila (The Philippine Star) Updated March 10, 201 his week we left behind the Senate impeachment trial, which is on a week-long recess anyway and focused on the more important issue of the up and coming 2013 national or mid-term elections. Last Tuesday we targeted the Precinct Count Optical Scan [...]
Continue Reading Comelec: Listen to AES Watch on 2010 polls
Tags: 2010 polls, AES, COMELEC, electoral fraud, PCOS, The Philippine Star
By jalmz
April 25th, 2011 at 06:25am
Under Current Events
By Paolo Romero (The Philippine Star) Updated April 25, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) is set to start this week the recount of the votes in the hotly contested congressional race in the lone district of Biliran. The HRET is composed of nine members, three of whom [...]
Continue Reading HRET to begin Biliran recount
Tags: Biliran, chong, COMELEC, espina, HRET, Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, Recount, Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, The Philippine Star
By jalmz
March 1st, 2011 at 09:24pm
Under Current Events
AS A MATTER OF FACT By Sara Soliven De Guzman (The Philippine Star) Our OFWs are running here and there and everywhere. Isn’t it just a sad state of life? Soon we will have many OFWs unemployed. Another catastrophic event coming! The turmoil that began in Egypt and now Libya may continue to spread in [...]
Continue Reading Mining will not solve poverty in the Philippines
Tags: mining, philippines, poverty, Sara Soliven De Guzman, The Philippine Star
By jalmz
November 9th, 2010 at 12:52pm
Under Current Events
By Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) MANILA, Philippines – The Senate Blue Ribbon committee will no longer conduct investigations on the controversial P18.5-billion Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project (LLRP) after President Aquino announced the project’s suspension pending a review and possible renegotiation. Sen. Teofisto Guingona III, chairman of the Blue Ribbon committee, said it is already [...]
Continue Reading Senate will no longer probe Laguna dredging project – Guingona
Tags: By Jess Diaz, DPWH, dredging project, LLRP, Sen. Teofisto Guingona III, The Philippine Star, The STAR
By jalmz
