Politics

By admin • August 4th, 2010

Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today filed House Bill 1963 or the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Reform Bill as registration period for the upcoming barangay and SK elections opens on August 6.

“It is our belief that the basic local government unit of the youth should not be abolished as proposed by many. What SK needs is for it to be strengthened and empowered,” said Palatino.

HB is a revised and improved version of HB 6870 first filed by Palatino in the 14th Congress.

Joint elements of the Philippine Coast Guard and PNP Maritime Group arrested incumbent Plaridel, Misamis Occidental Mayor Ernie Clarete and his two body guards at the Port of Batangas earlier around 10 a.m. today due to violation of the COMELEC Gun Ban…
Lt Cdr Troy Cornelio, Coast Guard Station Batangas Chief said that his men were [...]

Hon. Mayor and former Congressman Ernie D. Clarete along with former Vice Mayor Lemuel Acosta lead the Provincial government ‘s project of distributing additional honorarium to Barangay Health Workers or BHW’s.
More than 400 BHW’s from 47 barangay of Oroquieta City have received cash gifts equivalent to 5 months of their regular honorarium. Also present duringthe [...]

Contrary to claims of Mayor Jorge Almonte, the Office of the Ombudsman  Mindanao have rightly set aside the case filed before the office against former Vice Mayor Lemuel Meyrick Acosta.
The case is good as dead. with a reply from no less than Deputy Ombudsman Hon. Humphrey Monteroso, the Office of the Ombudsman cites that the [...]

Sapang Dalaga,Mis. Occ. – Usa ka 18 anyos nga rebeldeng New People‘s Army ang misurender kay Lt. Col. Raymumdo R. Acorda, Commading Officer sa 55th Infantry Battalion kaniadtong Setyembre 20, 2009.
Ang batan-ong rebelled giila sa ngalan nga Nestor P. Tabat Jr. aka Rey misurender dala and iyang isyu nga M16 ug 3 ka magasin nga [...]

OROQUIETA-  Oroquieta City Mayor Jorge T. Almonte has reportedly inked ties with the political camp of Congressman Nonong Jalosjos.
Western Times has gathered reliable information that Nonong Jalosjos’ daughter and President of the Dapitan Fantasyland Svetlana Jalosjos is definitely eyeing the mayoralty seat in Baliangao, Misamis Occidental.
With this development, incumbent Mayor Agne Yap is likely [...]

LOPEZ JAENA-  Usa ka biktima sa pagpangli-li ang midangop sa kapulisan aron buot mahunong ang   matud pa “pagsigi ug sunod-sunod ug pagpangli-li” sa usa ka hamtong nga lalaki. Si Ricky Rubio , 35 anyos, laborer ug lumulopyo sa Easter Poblacion, Lopez Jaena  ang gidakop sa Kapulisan human gireklamo ni Marissa Omandam , ugangan sa biktima [...]

One of the United State’s most widely-read newspaper with a circulation of more than 650,000 copies published a news article about President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo paying $20,000 (more or less 1million pesos) dinner bill on August 2, 2009.

The news article solicited thousands of comments on the web and around the president gma globe including fierce criticism from the Philippine church sector for the President’s “outlandish and insensitive” spending spree in time of Cory Aquino’s wake and while the whole nation is mourning for the death of the Former President.

Arroyo visited  Cory Aquino’s wake at the Manila Cathedral despite open resentment from the Aquino family for Malacañang’s earlier move to remove the two closed-in security details of the former President.
Let us avoid desecrating this act of final respect for President Cory by injecting politics,” said Cabinet Secretary Silvestre Bello III.
Ms Arroyo’s attendance will be [...]

OROQUIETA- Posibleng magbangga isip pagka-mayor ning Dakbayan sa Oroquieta ang mga inilang negosyante ning atong syudad nga sila si Jason Almonte ug Zaldy Daminar. Kauban ni Jason Almonte si Harry Guantero.

Si Hon. Harry Guantero kasamtangang Kapitan sa Poblacion II ug nanag-iya ug

Arroyo is likely to visit Cory Aquino’s wake at the Manila Cathedral despite open resentment from the Aquino family for Malacañang earlier move to remove the two closed-in security details of the former President.

Let us avoid desecrating this act of final respect for President Cory by injecting politics,”

Former Philippine President Corazon “Cory” Cojuangco Aquino died at 3:18 AM on August 1, 2009 after a month-long struggle with an advanced colon cancer. Asia’s first female president was 76 years old.  His son, politician Noynoy Aquino III sobbed as he confirmed the news before a frenzied media in Manila.
Several supporters and former political foes [...]

Although President Arroyo’s SONA delivers a striking statement to her critics, it falls short of discussing the issue of land reforms.
It hints on an end to her presidential term by 2010 but did not touch the issue of her continued stay in power and the charter-charter change through the con-ass move of the house of [...]