CITY of San Fernando, La Union – Eight candidates, including an incumbent barangay chairman, here have withdrawn from the barangay elections in October. Lawyer Reddy Ceralde Balarbar, Commission on Elections-Region 1 (Ilocos) assistant regional election supervisor and acting city election...
BATANGAS CITY – Two suspects in the killing of a reelectionist barangay chairman in Taal, Batangas were arrested in a follow-up operation hours after the incident on Tuesday, September 5. The Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) headed by Batangas police director Police Col. Samson Belmonte...
TACLOBAN CITY – A barangay councilor running for barangay chairman in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections next month was shot and wounded in Sitio Naga, Barangay Consuegra, Leyte, Leyte on Thursday, September 7. Police Capt. Rush Alvarado, Leyte, Leyte municipal police station...
PIKIT, North Cotabato (PNA) – A candidate for barangay councilor for next month’s barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections was shot dead by still unidentified assailants in Barangay Takepan here Wednesday afternoon. FLORES (FB) Rhoyden Matt Clarence Flores, 36, was buying vegetables in a...
TACLOBAN CITY – A barangay chairman running for reelection in the barangay elections next month and her live-in partner were gunned down on Wednesday, September 6, in their home in Barangay Campeig, Santa Margarita, Samar. Police identified the victims as Vivian Morales Verano, 46, and her...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Thursday, September 7, commended the recent issuance of a Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of Health (DOH), which seeks to ensure the security of tenure for barangay health workers...
TACLOBAN CITY – Nineteen out of the 20 barangay chairmen in Matuguinao, Samar, are running unopposed in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections 2023 in October. Mayor Aran Boller disclosed they have not met the 100 percent target of their Unity Assembly for the BSKE 2023 since...
A total of 8,565 candidates for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in October formally filed their certificates of candidacy (COCs) from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. The office of Atty. Arnulfo Pioquinto, provincial election supervisor of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Rizal...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Laguna reported that 27,983 individuals are running in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the province on October 30. The Office of the Provincial Election Supervisor said 1,949 are candidates for barangay chairman, of which 1,608 are males and...
TAAL, Batangas – A barangay chairman here running for reelection in the barangay elections next month was gunned down in Barangay Poblacion, Zone 10, this town, on Tuesday, September 5. The Police Regional Office 4-A identified the victim as Erasmo Divino Hernandez, chairman of Barangay...
The Comelec has issued new schedules for the filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COCs) for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) following the suspension of government work due to the inclement weather. In a post on Thursday night, Aug. 31, Comelec said for the National Capital...
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (PNA) – The police and military arrested here Tuesday night four armed men, one of them a candidate for barangay chairman, for possession of unlicensed high-powered firearms. The arrest of the group came hours after a candidate for barangay chairman was murdered near the...
