Archive - PHL Vote 2016

ASK all five presidential candidates about their plans for children and most of them would touch on providing classrooms and free lunch for undernourished kids. When it comes to transport issues, they would often discuss the worsening traffic problem in urban areas and their plans to solve it. This election season, road safety was almost

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL FIVE days before Election Day, the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) still do not have instructions how to test the integrity of the vote counting machines that will be used on May 9. In a lthree-page letter to Comelec, former Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Y. Larrazabal, who supervised the first automated national

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FIVE days before Election Day, former Comelec Commissioner  Gregorio Larrazabal, who supervised the first automated elections in 2010 and is now consultant of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, said there are a  still lot of loose ends that need to be tied to make Monday’s election orderly. He is very concerned with

STATEMENT: Independent senatorial candidate Greco Belgica was asked in a television interview on March 15 what his first bill would be if he won a seat in the Senate. He said he would push for a flat tax system on personal income. “Flat rate, meaning if you make P1 million, you pay P100,000. If you

Text by ALANAH TORRALBA Photos by LUIS LIWANAG, ALANAH TORRALBA and ALLAN YVES BRIONES [metaslider id=35101] THE Roxas camp seems to be pulling out all the stops a few days before the May 9 national and local elections. On April 28, the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Mar Roxas’ home turf, glistened in yellow as thousands gathered

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL Photos and video by LUIS LIWANAG [metaslider id=35085] WAS it a test of honor? Whose? Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, armed with an affidavit, arrived at the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Julia Vargas Branch Monday. The affidavit was the vice presidential candidate’s answer to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s challenge:

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IF you have to resort to lies in a conflict, it only indicates that you are not on the side of truth. It’s becoming obvious that the expose of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV of Davao City Mayor Duterte’s  bank transactions that can go up to as much as P2.4 billion has

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS MARCH 14, 2016 – Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte and his running mate Alan Peter Cayetano signed a manifesto waiving their rights under the Bank Secrecy law. In the manifesto, printed on a large piece of cardboard, they pledged “to open all our bank accounts in local and foreign currencies both here

WITH social media’s wide array of possibilities, netizens have seized the opportunity to make fun of presidential and other candidates by creating impersonation accounts using the candidate's image, paired with a convincing handle.

Getting it Right: Interacting with PWDs is a package of eight video tutorials that introduce viewers to disability issues and provide tips on how to interact with persons with disabilities.  (Go directly to Vimeo to view and share the album.) Produced by VERA Files (verafiles.org) primarily for a Filipino audience, the videos feature PWDs and disability

STATEMENT:  Former energy secretary and Liberal Party senatorial bet Jericho Petilla said in an April 6 television interview he was “branded the father of renewable energy.” “Before I came in as secretary, wala kang maririnig na renewable (you would not hear of renewable energy),” he said. Discussing the prospects for a “good mix” of coal and

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS A member of the influential Iglesia ni Cristo said the church leadership has called vice presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr, to tell him that he is their choice for the number two position for the May 9 elections. “Pinatawag siya (he was asked to come),” the source said. That is