The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) lauded the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for relaunching the Task Force Kontra Bigay (TFKB) which aims to address cases of vote buying for the May 9 national and local elections. DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said the reactivation...
The camp of Bongbong Marcos, citing two unofficial exit polls posted on social media, has claimed that the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) standard-bearer has received 85 percent and 83 percent of the overseas Filipino workers' (OFW) votes in Hong Kong (HK) and Qatar, respectively. A 20-year-old...
President Duterte has not issued any order to help any candidate, particularly the presidential aspirants, in the May 9 polls elections, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said on Thursday, April 7. “For your alluding that somebody higher up will tell...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) warned all political aspirants against the use of goons and private armies during the May 2022 elections. In a briefing on Thursday, April 7, DILG Secretary Eduardo Año said the police and the military have joined forces to thwart any...
Exempting the honoraria of teacher-poll workers from tax is up to Congress through law amendment, an official of the Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday, April 6, said. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Education Undersecretary for Administration Alain Pascua, during the “Laging Handa”...
Vice presidential candidate Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III is not comfortable with pre-election surveys. ‘’If surveys are used to condition the minds of our people on who should be elected as the next leader, then polling firms should also be held answerable to the plight of majority of...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año conceded on Thursday, March 24 that ‘it takes time’ for erring political bets, government workers and other individuals to be penalized for election-related offenses as ‘due process’ has to be observed. “Ang...
Former Vice President and senatorial aspirant Jejomar Binay backed the scrapping of the tax on the honorarium of teachers and other poll workers in the upcoming May 2022 elections. Binay made the statement on Monday, March 21, following the petition filed by a group for the removal of the...
Groups of teachers and education workers decried the 20 percent tax on honorarium for teachers who will serve as poll workers in the upcoming 2022 elections in May. Public school teachers undergo training in Manila for the May 2022 elections. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “Our teachers who chose...
Sanchez Mira, Cagayan—Partido Reporma standard-bearer Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson is convinced that holding direct conversations with the public is a much better indicator of voters’ outlook than relying on mainstream survey results, which already projected most presidential candidates on...
(DepEd / FILE PHOTO) A group called on the candidates in the May 2022 elections to consider their comprehensive agenda for the country’s teachers and education workers. “We have witnessed several forums and even debates where candidates, especially those gunning for the highest office in the...
A group of education workers urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to further discuss the compensation of teachers who will serve in the upcoming May 2022 elections. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines, in a statement issued Friday,...
