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Cayetano attributes survey leap to PTK message
Senator Alan Cayetano is now statistically tied for the number one slot with fellow Team PNoy candidate Senator Loren Legarda in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey of senatorial candidates. The latest SWS survey ranked Legarda at first place with a rating of 59 percent while Cayetano garnered a rating of 57 percent. With … Continue reading
New politics in Cebu: Livelihood program gaining ground
By Bong Galarpe LIVELIHOOD projects initiated by the Bag-ong Sugbu Foundation Inc. through the years uplifted the living conditions of a lot of unemployed women from the different barangays of Cebu City’s South District. One of the projects involved the sewing of bags using used tarpaulins. Bag-ong Sugbu first conducted trainings that proved to be … Continue reading
Pablo aftermath updates
PRworks’ aid thru Balay Mindanao The victims need food and water. Cash donations are welcome. Doris Mongaya, managing director of PRworks Inc., relayed this message from NGO workers engaged in relief work in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley provinces shortly super typhoon Pablo hit Mindanao on December 3, 2012. According to newspaper reports, the death … Continue reading
‘Delicadeza’ of a Cebuano politician-educator
By Bong Galarpe (Politika 2013 contributor) OF all the political figures in Southern Philippines, the most controversial right now is the erstwhile obscure Cebu City Councilor Rodrigo “Bebot” Abellanosa because of a conflict between being both a councilor and president of a private college. The three-term councilor is now running for Cebu City’s south district … Continue reading
32 Senate bets for 2013
1. Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV 2. Former Las Pinas City Rep. Cynthia Villar 3. Former Akbayan Rep. Ana Theresia “Risa” Hontiveros-Baraquel 4. Former Senator Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal 5. Former Senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr 6. Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara 7. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano 8. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV 9. Senator Aquilino … Continue reading
News Updates
Pablo claims 56 lives in Davao (Sun.Star DAvao) —- Thousands stranded in 16 seaports because of Pablo (www.inquirer.net) —- Aquino hit on RH bill (Cebu Daily News) —- Certify FOI bill as urgent (The Freeman) —- Rama believes P-Noy prefers LRT to BRT (The Freeman) —- 12 mayors absent in Negros Oriental development council meet (The Negros Chronicle) … Continue reading
Cebu list of candidates for 2013 (partial)
CEBU CITY For House of Representatives: North District: Juan Arenasa (Independent) Pablo ‘Junex’ Doronio (Ind) Vicente Manalac (Ind) Raul Del Mar (BOPK) Annabelle Rama (Team Rama) Judge Donato Navarro (Ind) Vicente Tan (Ind) Eliseo Tumulak (Ind) Marlo Maamo (Ind) Florencio Villarin (Ind) South District: Rodrigo Abellanosa (BOPK) Aristotle Batuhan (Team Rama) Erlinda Sollano (Ind) For … Continue reading
FOI status: Outmaneuvering P-Noy, LP with POGI?
By Emmanuel Mongaya Believers like Rep. Erin Tañada might have thought that ‘Matuwid na Daan’ would lead to the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill and signing into law by President Noynoy Aquino. Months ago, Tañada bared some 117 congressmen having expressed support. But the road is turning out to be a dead end for … Continue reading
Why Corona failed to beat impeachment?
A non-lawyer’s attempt to analyze the checkmate by Emmanuel Mongaya (journalist & blogger) The defense strategy of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona seemed wrapped around legal maneuvers. But it already took into account the political nature of the Senate Impeachment Trial even before the impeach-serye began last January 2012. We remembered the mobilizations of pro-Corona … Continue reading
Diabetes as Corona’s damage control?
Emmanuel N. Mongaya Journalist & Blogger “The Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines wishes to be excused.” These were the last words of Chief Justice Renato Corona before he abruptly stood up at the witness stand earlier this afternoon. These are not words of somebody who suffered a sudden drop in his blood … Continue reading
