Arroyo ‘declined’ to run for Speaker – ally
By Jani Arnaiz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 17:07:00 05/15/2010
Filed Under: Eleksyon 2010, Elections, Politics
MAASIN CITY, Philippines –President Macapagal Arroyo, the congresswoman-elect of Pampanga’s second district, has allegedly “declined” her allies’ prodding to run for Speaker, saying she would rather be like “Sonia Gandhi” of the Philippines, a lawmaker said on Saturday.
Gandhi is the Italian-born widow of [...]
LP, Castañares junk Lerias-Saludo tandem, go for Mercados
By Jani Arnaiz
May 6, 2010
MAASIN CITY –The Liberal Party provincial hierarchy will junk the candidates of Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas in the province of Southern Leyte.
The Liberal Party has no provincial candidates for congressman, governor and city mayor but Noynoy has chosen NPC bets Dundeet Lerias for governor and her mother former Gov. Rosette [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No suspect yet on teacher’s murder
By Jani Arnaiz
MAASIN CITY – Three weeks after the gruesome murder of 63 years old Petra Pongase, inside her room in Dongon village, the police has yet to detain a suspect/s.
Pongase, an elementary school teacher, was found dead and half naked nine hours after the reported time of her death early dawn of March 31.
In [...]
No San Francisco Javier in Hanginan on Good Friday!
By Jani Arnaiz
A tradition ever since the early 19th century, tens of thousands of devotees from all over the region and even from Mindanao flocked yearly every Good Friday to the San Francisco Javier shrine in a mountain barangay of Hanginan, Maasin City, a two and a half hour trek of rugged trail.
On regular Fridays, [...]
