By ELLEN TORDESILLAS LAWYER Harry Roque tried last Wednesday to withdraw P100,000 to pay the tuition fees of his children and was told that he couldn’t because of the stupid Comelec Resolution 9688 which prohibits “the withdrawal of cash, encashment of checks and conversion of any monetary instrument into cash from May 8 to
By AUREA LYNNE PAZ and HAZEL P. VILLA ILOILO CITY – The city’s Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) will hold on Oct. 25 the last of its weekly lectures to make PWDs aware of their right to vote in the midterm 2013 elections, as the last day of registration approaches. The lectures were scheduled every
THE late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo had always made known that his personal advocacies included looking after the welfare of people with disabilities (PWDs). “This is personal to me,” he said in his keynote address at the launching last April 18 of the Fully Abled Nation, a multisectoral initiative to encourage PWDs to register and vote in the 2013 midterm elections. “I am no stranger to PWDs.”
By GIAN C. GERONIMO
FOURTEEN-year-old identical twins John Paul and Peter John Parco and their younger brother Vincent, 13, share something rare.
Text by XIANNE ARCANGEL Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV
THE Commission on Elections has promised to make voting precincts more accessible to persons with disabilities, even if Congress fails to pass the proposed the Polling Center Accessibility Act in time for the May 2013 midterm elections.
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
Elections Commissioner Rene Sarmiento is urging President Aquino to make history by appointing state solicitor Jessica S. Magbanua, a person with disability, to the Commission on Elections, replacing Augusto C. Lagman who was bypassed by the Commission on Appointments.
By KARLON N. RAMA
THE provincial government of Cebu pledged to encourage more persons with disability to take part in the 2013 elections when it signed a commitment to support the Fully Abled Nation campaign that upholds PWDs’ right to suffrage.