Editorial
The prospects of cheating in tomorrow’s elections loom large with the many issues cropping up that show the electoral machines and the automated poll system are all too vulnerable to fraud and malfunction. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) report about more than three dozen machines…
The Monday election has the potential of coming out as being more anarchic than other previous elections and the first automated polls failure (yes, Virginia, the 2010 presidential poll results were questionable and fraudulent) as a result of the host of problems that remains unresolved…
The most ridiculous stunt thus far made by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was to order the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to limit cash withdrawals to P100,000 a day until election day supposedly to deter vote buying.The directive was simply insane since it is…
From all appearances, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. has stooped down to using desperate measures to divert public attention from the likelihood of a rough ride for the mid-term elections coming in less than a week.Brillantes appears pathetic in giving a feeble…
The much-anticipated endorsement of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) of the 12 candidates, seven from Team PNoy and five from the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), had some surprises but it gives those endorsed a huge boost in their candidacy. The INC membership is estimated anywhere…
Commentaries
Blustering his way through
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Sixto Brillantes and his commissioners in the poll body...
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Keep their dirty hands off…
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For 27 years the country’s three million or so coconut ...
Ukrainian’s wartime love with Italian im…
22-05-2013 Tribune
KIEV — The sculpture shows two elderly people hugging e...
Editorial
Keeping with Sona tradition
It appears that Noynoy will stick to his worn-out formula of enumerating non-existent gains a…
A boycott among OFWs
Lost in the din of the recent automated election and the confusion associated with it was the f…
Invisible president strikes an…
The worsening rift between the Philippines and Taiwan over the shooting of fisherman Hung Shih …
Noynoying unified China, Taiwa…
Noynoy had achieved something historic as a result of his inability to make a stand on the in…
Smartmatic still for 2016
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) seems to be proceeding on the path of ignoring all form…
Were our votes counted?
A gap of about 12 hours, the time that Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillan…
Paris of Asia
In his victory message, Manila Mayor-elect Joseph “Erap” Estrada promised to turn the capital…
Dastardly deeds abound
The pathetic efforts of the demolition team of Noynoy extended to breaking into the Senate Web …
Thwart Oplan 12-0
Vigilance will be the best guarantee against fraud on this day of decision. Each voter would be…
PCOS legacies from 2010
The prospects of cheating in tomorrow’s elections loom large with the many issues cropping up…
Everything can go wrong for a …
The Monday election has the potential of coming out as being more anarchic than other previou…
A not so brilliant PR stunt
The most ridiculous stunt thus far made by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was to order t…
Time runs out for Comelec
From all appearances, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. has stoop…
INC weighs in on Senate race
The much-anticipated endorsement of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) of the 12 candidates, seven f…
No smooth ride for polls
Election day is a week from now but the Commission on Elections (Comelec) continues to have no …