BY GMANEWS.TV Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 17, 2007 – 4:19pm The National Police on Thursday placed on restrictive custody five members of the Calabarzon Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG) tagged as suspects in the burning of a school in Taysan town in Batangas province that killed a teacher and a poll watcher.…
Category: Regions
In Marilog, Voters Couldn’t Find Names, Precincts Don’t Have Enough Lighting for Counting Tonight
BY JETTY OHAYLAN-AYOP davaotoday.com Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 14, 2007 – 6:12pm MARILOG, Davao City — Several voters at the Marilog Central Elementary School complained today that they could not find their names on the voters’ list. Reynaldo Bacalso, 49, said a number of the voters failed to vote as a result.…
Army Campaigns vs. Progressive Party-Lists in Negros Hinterlands
A dialogue between progressive party-list groups, people’s organizations, church groups, city officials, the local office of the Commission on Human Rights, and the Philippine Army’s 61st Infantry Battalion came to naught when Col. Norma Flores merely denied that they are engaging in electioneering and even claimed that the dialogue was muddling the harmonious relationships between…
Election 2007: Nearly 500 Villages in Davao Region Vulnerable to Violence
DAVAOTODAY.COM Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 12 April 29-May 5, 2007 DAVAO CITY — As many as 444 barangays (villages) in the Southern Mindanao region have been classified as among so-called “areas of immediate concern” this election season. The police in the region reported 38 percent of the villages in Southern Mindanao, including those…
Philippines’s Strawberry Capital Marks Strawberry Fest
RP’s Strawberry Capital has enough reasons to celebrate. After landing in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2005 for the “Biggest Strawberry Cake,” La Trinidad would be unveiling its “House of Strawberry” when it kicks off its Strawberry Festival on March 19. The festival would include street dancing and float parades. BY ACE ALEGRE…
Negros NGO Bags DoE ‘Green Energy-Award’
The Bacolod-based Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. (AIDFI) is the only non-government organization (NGO) among the five Philippine corporations which bagged the 1st Green E-Award given by the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Energy Council of the Philippines-Center of Excellence for Sustainable Energy in Southeast Asia (ECP-CESE). BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat BACOLOD CITY…
In exchange for infra funds Agri Sec Asks Benguet Farmers to Supply NCR with Veggies
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap asked Benguet farmers for a year-round supply of vegetables for outlets in the National Capital Region (NCR) before he releases funds for road and other infrastructure. “We will support the farmers but they should first assure the volume of vegetables for the market,” Yap said in his meeting with Benguet mayors…
Due to Community Outrage, Mining Company to Return Ancestral Land to Balatoc Tribe
Due to community outrage and pressure, a foreign mining corporation promised through a corporate declaration that it is ready to execute an affidavit to facilitate the return of the said ancestral lands to the Balatoc tribe of Kalinga. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Due to community outrage and pressure, a foreign…
Cordi Rights Group Remembers First Slain NL Activist
As human rights advocates here commemorated the second death anniversary of Romy Sanchez, they also condemned the passage amid wide opposition of the Human Security Act of 2007 also known as the Anti-Terrorism Law. Sanchez is the first activist killed in Northern Luzon under the Arroyo administration. BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat…
A Bullet in the Head
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY – All the gunman had to do was pump one bullet into the head of Renato Pacaide. His death would have been quick, perhaps relatively less brutal. But it took more than a bullet to kill a man known as “Ka Atong” to many of his friends and…
In the wake of killings: Election Fever Mounts in Abra
As the May election is fast approaching and candidacies are filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the election fever surges even in Abra with announcements by alleged warring parties and individuals of their intention to run challenging each other, at least in the polls. BY LYN V. RAMO AND ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch Posted…