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…
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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…
Army says Maguindanao polls generally peaceful; no failure of polls in Cotabato City
By Noel Y. Punzalan COTABATO CITY, (PNA) — Barangay elections in Maguindanao, particularly in the second district of the province, was generally peaceful, a military official in the area, said. Col. Edgar…
2 barangays bets in Iloilo City disqualified by court from voting
ILOILO CITY, (PNA) — Two candidates in Barangay Cuartero, Jaro district here have been meted by the local court with disqualification to vote during the barangay elections Monday. These are Letecia Gimeno,…
‘Flying voters’ reported in New Washington, Aklan
KALIBO, Aklan, (PNA) — At least 50 voters in a precinct in Poblacion, New Washington town faced protests on Monday’s barangay (village) elections on allegations that they are not original residents of…
Generally peaceful barangay polls declared in Cabanatuan City
CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, (PNA) — A generally peaceful conduct of barangay elections was declared in the city as the 646 clustered precincts stopped operations and shifted to the canvassing of votes….