The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), began the canvassing of overseas absentee votes (OAVs) Wednesday evening as transmissions throughout the country continued to come in at a snail’s pace.
Nearly three weeks after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) unanimously passed a resolution which Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. told the press “reinstates over 238,000 overseas Filipino voters who were earlier delisted for failing to beat the deadline to manifest their intent to vote in the midterm elections,” questions are being raised about whether the Comelec is serious about implementing its resolution.
A group of workers of the Bureau of Immigration urged Justice Secretary Leila De Lima to investigate the P50-million nationwide biometric project.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima reiterated Wednesday that Aman Futures Group founder Manuel Amalilio is a Filipino and not a Malaysian, Radyo Inquirer 990AM reported.
Two militant groups filed a letter of complaint Tuesday urging the Department of Justice to take legal action against US Navy officers and crew members of the USS Guardian, the 63-meter long minesweeper that ran aground on the Tubbataha Reef last January 17.
President Benigno S. Aquino III can duly celebrate the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) law on February 13 by appointing an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) to fill one of two vacancies in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) occasioned by the retirement of Commissioners Armando Velasco and Rene Sarmiento on February 2.
Port calls by the United States navy to the Philippines will continue despite the damage its minesweeper sustained on Tubbataha Reefs Park in Sulu Sea recently.
Philippine police say a criminal complaint has been filed against the Filipino wife of a suspected Malaysian terrorist, who was killed by snipers while threatening to detonate a powerful bomb.
The Bureau of Immigration has started deportation proceedings against a Singaporean national suspected of having ties with a human trafficking syndicate that provides fake Philippine passports to Chinese nationals travelling to the country.
Albay Representative Edcel Lagman on Monday said he hoped that President Benigno Aquino III would certify the Reproductive Health Bill as urgent.
Zenaida Silva, a veteran Filipino journalist who covered the 1986 “people power” revolt that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos and other turbulent political events in the Philippines, has died.
Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Teddy Casiño, a leftist senatorial bet, on Tuesday blasted President Benigno Aquino III’s for belittling his survey standing.
