Imelda: Cory is not icon of democracy
By Jani Arnaiz
Inquirer Visayas
First Posted 20:05:00 04/30/2010
Filed Under: Cory Aquino, Elections
MAASIN CITY—THE WIDOW of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos thrust herself in the limelight again, saying the late President Corazon Aquino was never elected and should not be considered an icon of democracy.
Imelda Marcos, who is campaigning for the senatorial bid of her son, Ferdinand [...]
Concretizing conscience
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (27 April) — Vote according to your conscience and it will not be wasted — even if the candidate you are voting will lose in the elections, deputy presidential spokesperson Gary Olivar appeals.
Good advice, definitely, considering that conscience, in its abstract connotation, is a rare commodity especially in the only [...]
Sound check: Mikmik and Cattski
MUSING MAASIN
By Ronald O. Reyes
Let’s talk about music, for a change. After all, music, like poetry, is a great escape from our humdrum existence –especially in the country today where much of our personal affairs are drowned by election brouhaha.
Maasinhons are music lovers and music makers. A cursory look around our neighborhood and you’ll see [...]
Sen. Aquino mobbed in Maasin, denies health problem
By Jani Arnaiz
April 27, 2010
MAASIN CITY – Sen. Noynoy Aquino has rejected the new psychiatric report as another smear campaign saying that Ateneo has already denied that they made the psychiatric evaluation when he was still a student at the school.
Obviously he was not aware of the press conference of former National Power Corporation Guido [...]
P331M “state of the art” new city hall inaugurated
ByElvie Roman-Roa
ORMOC CITY — After eight years of hard work in allocating budget from the city’s annual income, the new Ormoc City Hall has come to its completion.
The old city hall has been serving the Ormocanons for more than 50 years already and is partly dilapidated. Due to the growing needs of Ormocanons and practically [...]
Tempering automation blues
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City — Barely four weeks into D-day for this nation’s first-ever crack at automated elections, some sectors cannot seem to be at peace at this novel way by which we put people in places of trust, in positions high and low, in every nook and corner of the Philippines.
The concern is [...]
Agra’s verdict ill-timed, says ex-legal chief
By Eden Benusa-Reyes
If former Malacañang chief legal adviser will be asked, Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra’s decision in clearing two top powerful Ampatuans on their hands in the murder of 57 people – to include journalists and women–in Maguindanao last November 23, 2009 was untimely.
This was the opinion of Atty. Sergio Apostol when asked comments [...]
Most valuable, priceless message to graduates forever
Talking Point
By Bong Pedalino
Manila — Businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan should not cower in ignominy because of a mistake not of his own doing.
Rather, he should remain standing tall among his equals, head held up, eyes wide open, for being man enough to have issued an apology outright, and for accepting full responsibility of it all.
As [...]
Erap campaigns for the Codilla’s
By Elvie Roman-Roa
ORMOC CITY – Former President Joseph “Erap“ Estrada of Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino and PDP Laban party of the United Opposition have endorsed the candidacies of Lakas-Kampi party here in the fourth district.
Erap, his vice president Jojo Binay and six senatoriables Jinggoy Estrada, Kit Tatad, Rodolfo Plaza, JV Bautista, Jun Lozada and Johnny [...]
BEI pass test for automated polls
By Bong Pedalino
Southern Leyte — Nearly all mentors in this province can be up to the task of providing the needed user-friendly assistance to voters at the precinct level in the first-ever computerized elections to be held in this province.
This much can be gleaned after a rigorous training was conducted for those with intent to [...]
