CAMP Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – The Police Regional Office-3 seized 101 firearms and arrested 103 individuals in Central Luzon from Jan. 12 to 28 for violating the election gun ban. Thirty-eight firearms were confiscated in checkpoints, 21 in police responses, 39 in buy-bust...
The extent of postponing the first-ever Bangsamoro Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) polls is still up for discussion by the Senate and the House of Representatives in a brewing discussion of the bicameral conference committee next week. The Senate earlier approved its own version...
The Makabayan bloc's senatorial hopefuls for the upcoming May 12 mid-term elections are ready to face their rivals in any debate ahead of the polls. This, as the miltant bloc welcomed on Thursday, Jan. 30, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)'s call on political candidates to engage in debate on...
A teachers' group on Thursday, Jan. 30, urged political candidates to make the proposed P15,000 salary increase for educators a key issue in the upcoming elections. (JOJO RINOZA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC), in a statement, highlighted that the...
ILOILO CITY – Twenty-one individuals have been arrested for violating the election gun ban in Western Visayas. The Police Regional Office-6 said all the violators were civilians. The most recent violator was from Bacolod City, a 54-year-old man caught carrying a gun replica. POLICE conduct a...
The House plenary (PPAB) The proposed measure that would extend the terms of Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials from three years to six years is one step away from attaining final passage in the House of Representatives....
Marikina Mayor Marcelino "Marcy" Teodoro remains a candidate for congressman of the city’s 1st District, as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, Jan. 27 resumed its ballot printing for the 2025 elections. The printing was delayed for three weeks due to temporary restraining orders...
Despite delays encountered in the past few weeks, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is still keen to finish printing the ballots for the May 2025 election by April 14 as it resumed on Monday, January 27. Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman George Erwin Garcia, National Printing Office...
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) and AMA Education System (AMAES) have formalized a partnership, through the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), in a significant step towards ensuring a clean and transparent electoral process, at The Flex, AMA University. AMAES...
La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V (left), Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun (PPAB) Citing heightened stakes, House "Young Guns" bloc members La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega and Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun are...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) With the 2025 mid-term elections just four months away, the House of Representatives is set to begin on Monday, Jan. 27, an investigation on the unabated spread of fake news and disinformation online. Tapped to carry...
CEBU CITY – Twenty-five persons have been arrested in Central Visayas since the election gun ban was enforced on Jan. 12, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas said. The PRO-7 also said that 35 firearms – 13 pistols and 22 revolvers – and bullets were seized. Among...
