By MIKHA FLORES THE Commission on Elections has asked the Catholic Church to serve as role model in following election laws by removing an oversized endorsement poster outside a Bacolod church. In a one-page letter dated Feb 27, Law Department Director Esmeralda Amora-Ladra asked Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra to lead by example and remove the
By MIKHA FLORES KABATAAN and PISTON party-lists are in hot water for failing to remove illegal posters in Manila beyond the grace period given by the Commission on Elections. Law Department Director Esmeralda Amora-Ladra said Comelec will file an election offense case against Kabataan and PISTON (Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide) for not
By ACE ESMERALDA THE election period in the Philippines began Sunday and signalled the start of a nationwide total gun ban expected to minimize election-related offenses, particularly gun-related violence among political groups and clans. For many, the gun ban brings some relief, especially since the country enters this period with heightened fear of gun-related violence.
By MIKHA FLORES PRESIDENT Aquino has asked the Commission on Elections to exempt him from the gun ban that takes effect nationwide when the election period starts on Sunday, a Comelec official said Thursday. Elections Commissioner Elias Yusoph said Aquino, a known gun enthusiast, filed for a personal exemption Thursday morning at his office. The
COTABATO CITY— The Commission on Elections allowed persons with disabilities (PWDs) to register during the voters’ registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), but failed to provide them with supplemental forms that would have determined the kind of assistance they would need come election day next year. For the entire 10 days of
WHEN dentist Jeana Lacsamana Manalaysay voted in the 2010 elections, her husband and son had to lift her wheelchair up three steps to her voting precinct in Almanza Uno in Las Pinas.
By MIKHAIL FRANZ E. FLORES ON May 13 next year, persons with disabilities (PWDs) will no longer have to worry about climbing a flight of stairs in order to cast their votes in the midterm elections.
By HAZEL VILLA, VICENTE ALEJANDRO AND NESTOR RAMIREZ THE Western Visayas Regional Council for Disability Affairs is hosting a two-day summit for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Iloilo City, one of the many ways government agencies in the Visayas will be celebrating National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week.
By CONG B. CORRALES, VANESSA L. ALMEDA, WALTER I. BALANE and KARLOS MANLUPIG
VARIOUS groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) based in Mindanao have criticized the Commission on Elections’ decision to cancel the planned special voter registrations for this sector this month.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES THE special registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) nationwide set for next month will be called off following the Commission on Elections’ decision to give priority to voter registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).