The Duterte administration has only until August this year to enact and approve a law that will suspend this year’s barangay elections for an undetermined period and allow the President to appoint barangay officials, but this early,…
AS TALKS about another possible postponement of this year’s upcoming barangay elections continues, the province’s top officials weigh-in on the issue. Gov. Hilario Davide III said that he heard reports that along with the supposed postponement of…
Talks about possible postponement of the barangay elections scheduled in October this year will have no bearing in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) until a law will be enacted declaring its postponement. Lawyer Lionel Castillano, Comelec Cebu…
President Rodrigo Duterte wants the barangay elections postponed again. In a speech before the first general assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) at the Manila Hotel on Tuesday, the President said he did…
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division has issued an order which facilitates the recount of 20 percent of votes cast in Cebu City’s mayoralty race last May. The best solution to resolve the allegations of defeated…
DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte may be elected president if the elections were held today based on a mock survey done by the University of the Philippines-Cebu held ahead of the 5 p.m. presidential debate. As of…
A NEW election supervisor will be assigned to Cebu province on Tuesday this week, Feb. 16. Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial supervisor Lionel Marco Castillano will be relocated temporarily to Negros Oriental and will be replaced by…
POLICE arrested three of the suspects in the strafing incident involving the vice mayoral candidate of the Liberal Party-Cebu chapter for Dumanjug town last Friday. Senior Insp. Arvi Arbuis, chief of the Dumanjug police precinct, identified the…
More than 700 people lined up to register at the Cebu City office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday, a day after the agency finished processing the candidacies of those running in next year’s elections. “Definitely…
Bogo City Mayor Celestino “Junie” Martinez, Liberal Party district chairman, is running for the 4th district congressional seat next year. His son Carlo, a lawyer, will seek election for the first time to fill his father’s shoes…
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finalized its calendar of activities for the national polls on May 9 next year. Lawyer Ferdinand Gujilde, Cebu provincial election officer, said Comelec Resolution No. 9981 details the important dates prospective…
AUTOMATED elections, voters’ education, the K-to-12 program and the illegal drug menace will be tackled in the three-day plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which opened yesterday. Fr. Marvin Mejia, who currently…
