Hontiveros lobbies for health care reforms

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 12/18/2015

LIBERAL Party (LP) senatorial aspirant Risa Hontiveros met with health care reform advocates and urban poor groups in Cebu to seek their support and discuss her agenda yesterday. Hontiveros, who’s running for senator for the third time, …

Partylist group backs Roxas, LP slate

Norman V. Mendoza 12/17/2015

ABOUT 5,000 members of cooperatives under the partylist Coop-National Confederation of Cooperatives (Coop-NATCCO) voiced support for the Liberal Party lineup in a program held at the Hoops Dome in Lapu-Lapu City yesterday. During their “Pwersang Kooperatiba sa…

On the same boat

Editorial 12/16/2015

With two strikes against her, presidential candidate and Sen. Grace Poe finds herself in the same territory as her late father, acting legend and former presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. It took a Supreme Court decision in…

Promdi disowns Despi’s nomination

Mary Claire U. Catado 12/16/2015

An official of Promdi Party questioned the candidacy of Arthur Despi who substituted Jose Carcena as the party’s candidate for mayor of Bantayan town. Commission on Elections Bantayan Election Officer III Dennie Demecillo said Promdi General Secretary…

Winston on Dumanjug case: Garcias are not violent

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/13/2015

FOR all their influence, the Garcia family won’t resort to violence to gain power, One Cebu gubernatorial aspirant Winston Garcia said. He said this in response to last week’s shootout tha killed Marciano Tiwan and barangay councilman…

Binay: Roxas behind plot to charge me with graft

12/12/2015

VICE President Jejomar Binay yesterday said Liberal Party standard bearer Mar Roxas is the person behind the “demolition by perception” plot to charge him of corruption. In an ambush interview after a forum in the Ateneo De…

Wagas files bid to challenge Durano

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/11/2015

Former Compostela Mayor Gilbert Wagas filed his certificate of candidacy as the lone challenger of Danao City Vice Mayor Ramon “Red” Durano VI for a seat in Congress. He substituted Virgia Wagas Velasco, who filed her COC…

Candidates urged to sign peace covenant for elections

Apple Ta-as 12/11/2015

THE new chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) called on all candidates to sign a covenant to help ensure peaceful elections next year. Chief Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, who assumed his post  last Wednesday,…

Councilman, strafing suspect die in shootout

Jhunnex Napallacan, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag and Apple Ta-as 12/10/2015

A shootout at dawn with policemen yesterday ended with  the death of a barangay councilman identified with Dumanjug Mayor Nelson Garcia and another man in a mountain barangay in Ronda town. Police operatives said both fatalities, barangay…

Dumanjug cop chief faces exit

Jhunnex Napallacan 12/10/2015

The Dumanjug police chief is on his way out after incurring the ire of Mayor Nelson Garcia who suspects  the police chief is siding with his political foe, Vice Mayor Efren Gica. Supt. Arvi Arbuis confirmed that…

Great respect for Roy Señeres

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 12/10/2015

If supporters of Davao City Mayor and candidate for president Rodrigo Duterte are ecstatic over the latest Social Weather Station survey that showed his popularity in Metro Manila surging to 38% in a polling taken in November…

Two men tied to vehicle strafing die in shootout with police

Apple Ta-as 12/09/2015

Two men linked to the strafing of a vehicle owned by a vice mayoral candidate of the Liberal Party (LP) Cebu were killed in a shootout with operatives of the Regional Public Safety Battalion Central Visayas (RPSB-7)…

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