Here’s what we knew as of yesterday: Nuraldin Yusoph, 22 years old, a Muslim scholar, and the 6th son of COMELEC Commissioner Elias Yuspoh, was kidnapped as he was leaving the mosque in Marawi City. The kidnappers have been in communication with Commissioner Yusoph and father and son were given the opportunity to speak to […]
by Sarah Asis As the Commission on Elections resumes transactions with the public on June 15, all concerned offices and departments have been directed to be “COVID-19 ready” COMELEC Resolution No. 10672 enumerated the protocols in the resumption of processing and releasing of voter’s certification which institutionalize the new normal, together with minimum public health […]
Despite the threat of COVID-19, the National and Local Elections of 2022 – a Presidential race, in case that little fact has slipped your mind – will most likely still involve more than 45 million voters, crowding into less than a hundred thousand polling places nationwide. Even two years down the road, those are still […]
By the time voter registration starts up again, we will have lost at least three months out of the registration period scheduled to run throughout the rest of 2020, all the way up to September 2021. With the record of the early days averaging between 80,000 to 100,000 transactions per week – including new registrations, […]
by Luie Tito F. Guia Failure of an independent candidate for the Senate to prove that he or she has the financial capacity to wage and sustain a nationwide campaign cannot be used as a basis to consider him or her a nuisance candidate. The Supreme Court, in the case of Norman Cordero Marquez vs. […]
by Roger Gulay NOTHING is impossible with people who have the heart to help. Despite difficulties due to the imposition of Enhanced Community Quarantine as a response to COVID-19, COMELEC-Zamboanga del Sur, while heeding the call of government to stay home, nevertheless responded to the call of the times, extended assistance to some families in […]
Last March 6, I tweeted “TikTok will be a significant platform for the 2022 National and Local Elections.” The tweet elicited a lot of reactions, ranging from concurrence to violent disagreement; from mild amusement to personal attacks leveled at me for supposedly encouraging this nonsense when I should be suppressing it. Fast forward to earlier […]
When I was growing up, I couldn’t get enough of reading. I read everything I could get my hands on: from my mom’s old med school textbooks to back issues of the National Geographic Magazine; from my dad’s paperback novels to Reader’s Digests; from the newspapers to the backs of shampoo bottles. I read it […]
Thanks to Dr. Edgard Cabangon, my column in the @BusinessMirror is back. SPOX will now be appearing on Thursdays, in the Opinion pages of the country’s top business newspaper. As before, the column will try to shed light on the work the Commission on Elections does – hopefully explaining the whys and wherefores, and demystifying […]
It’s always a joy to watch a movie or tv series that uses the old mythologies as a framework for their storytelling. Netflix’s Ragnarok didn’t disappoint. The Premise – The series unfolds in a small Norwegian town ruled by a wealthy family – the Jutuls – whose factory is slowly destroying the environment. Into this […]