ILOILO CITY – Twenty-seven violators of the gun ban in the barangay elections next month were arrested in Western Visayas as of September 11. POLICE conduct a checkpoint in San Dionisio town, Iloilo province in line with the 2023 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. (Tara Yap)...
BAGUIO CITY (PNA) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) here said some barangay candidates filed their Certificates of Candidacy for the October 30 elections without Sangguniang Kabataan (SK or youth council) aspirants. Although the 128 barangays here are swarming with candidates, it's a...
A total of 474 people, including soldiers and policemen, were arrested in the implementation of the nationwide gun ban for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE). PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said the same gun ban implementation since Aug. 28 also resulted in the confiscation...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – Some 475 police officers with relatives who are candidates in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 30 were reassigned to different provincial police offices (PPOs), the Police Regional Office-5 (Bicol) said on Monday, September 11. In an interview,...
Senator Francis Tolentino said on Saturday, Sept. 9, that being a candidate for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) should not affect the official function of incumbent barangay officials. "Yung official functions at tsaka yung estado bilang kandidato ngayon...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Joint Peace and Security Coordinating Center convened for the first time on Tuesday, September 5, to discuss security for the barangay elections in the Caraga region next month. Each member laid out security measures and based on these, the JPSCC...
CITY of San Fernando, La Union – Eight candidates, including an incumbent barangay chairman, here have withdrawn from the barangay elections in October.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...
In a bid to further empower citizens, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said that reporting incidents of vote buying and selling is not required to be a formal complaint. MB file photo "Hindi kinakailangang formal complaint, hindi kinakailangang under oath. Ibato lang...
ILOILO CITY – Two security guards were arrested on Thursday, September 7, in Malay, Aklan for violating the gun ban in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. Police did not identify the suspects who were arrested in the port across world-famous Boracay Island. Police Lt. Col. Danis...
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...
