TACLOBAN CITY, (PNA) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) claimed village polls in Eastern Visayas was generally peaceful even amid violence and vote-buying incidents. A husband…
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Comelec: No voting in 13 villages of Pikit, North Cotabato
PIKIT, North Cotabato, (PNA) — The Commission on Elections here announced that no voting has occurred in 13 villages after the teachers refused to serve for security reasons. Joel Celis, Pikit election…
Comelec estimates 80% voters’ turnout in Western Visayas
ILOILO CITY, (PNA) -– The Commission on Elections-Region 6 (Comelec-6) estimated a turnout of up to 80 percent of the total 4.2 million registered voters in Western Visayas in Monday’s barangay elections….
Killing of barangay official mars election in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan
LAMITAN CITY, Basilan, (PNA) -– The election in one of the barangays in the municipality of Tipo-Tipo in this province was marred by the killing of a barangay official, who is seeking…
Leyte vice-gov supports P5B CHED budget for scholarships, students’ assistance in 2014
TACLOBAN CITY, (PNA) — The P5 billion budget for the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in 2014 intended for scholarships and financial assistance to students would solve the dilemma of scholars where…
Albay posts lowest percentage of barangays in watch list areas
LEGAZPI CITY, (PNA) -– The province of Albay registered the lowest percentage of barangays placed under the Election Watch List Areas of the police in Bicol based on its total number of…
Probe on in fiscal’s residence grenade explosion, bombings, strafing of village hall in Davao del Sur
DAVAO CITY, (PNA) — Police authorities are still looking into the motive of the grenade explosion inside a prosecutor’s house, the bombings of two polling centers and the strafing of a barangay…
Salceda first to cast vote in hometown village
POLANGUI, Albay, (PNA) — Albay Gov. Joey Sarte Salceda was the first to cast his vote in Precinct No. 62-A in Barangay Centro Oriental here. Salceda said he was at the polling…
4 bets for village chiefs in Bacolod City unopposed
BACOLOD CITY, (PNA) – Four candidates for village chiefs in this city are sure winners in Monday’s barangay elections as they are running unopposed, records of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) here…
DPWH eyes immediate decongestion of Zambo evacuation centers
ZAMBOANGA CITY, (PNA) -– The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is eyeing the immediate decongestion of the Mayor Joaquin Enriquez Memorial Sports Complex and schools used as evacuation centers in…
Fire hits school in northern Iloilo town
ILOILO CITY, (PNA) — Four classrooms in the Home Economics building of the Barotac Viejo Comprehensive High School in Barotac Viejo, Iloilo were lost to a fire Sunday. Arson investigators said the…
52 gun ban violators recorded in E. Visayas
CAMP KANGLEON, Palo, (PNA) — The arrest of a candidate for barangay chairman in a village in Samar’s Calbayog City increased to 52 the number of persons nabbed for violating gun ban…
Interminable ITCZ rain fails to dampen voter’s turnout in Palawan
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, (PNA) -– Uninterrupted showers and thunderstorms which caused inundations in certain areas in Puerto Princesa and Palawan failed to discourage over 580,000 registered voters in participating in Monday’s barangay…
Close coordination needed to prevent circulation of substandard products in Palawan
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, (PNA) -– Substandard products circulating in the market will be prevented if there’s close coordination among concerned enforcement agencies, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in…
City gov’t conducts ‘tagging’ and ‘mapping’ of Zambo standoff victims
ZAMBOANGA CITY, (PNA) –- The city government, through the Housing and Land Management Division (HLMD), has conducted Monday “tagging” and “mapping” of residents of Barangay Mariki, one of the barangays affected by…