A quick check-list of the things you need to know if you want to throw your hat into the Party-List System 1. How may a party, organization, or coalition participate in the PL elections? An organized group NOT YET REGISTERED with the COMELEC may participate by FILING A PETITION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER OATH. The deadline […]
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Jan
Jan
This is my article in the 4 January 2012 edition of the Business Mirror. In 2012 the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will have to start its preparations for the coming election year in earnest. The Comelec Advisory Council will have to play its part by finally coming out with its technology recommendation for the automated […]
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Dec
Dec
Death is easily the most misunderstood card in the Tarot. The mere mention of it sets some people to clucking ominously. Just like many people are probably doing right about now. But consider the card. The card takes its name from the central figure – an armored skeleton riding a horse and bearing a banner. […]
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Dec
Dec
First published for the BeRaters here. Panday 2 starts off just after the villain Lizardo is supposed to have died at the hands of the titular hero Flavio, the blacksmith, in what I presume was the climactic sequence of the last Bong Revilla Panday. Not having watched that movie, I felt like I was walking […]
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Dec
Dec
I want to write this comic book. >>In the news today<< “… the Governor was found dead in his office today, apparently strangled to death with a length of cable … the Governor is known for his hard line stance against prostitution in his province. He was famous for his Sunday sermons at the provincial […]
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Dec
Dec
This is my article in the 28 December 2011 edition of the Business Mirror. THE Commission on Elections started the year flushed with success from the first-ever nationwide implementation of the Automated Elections System for the May 2010 national and local elections—the fruition of more than a decade’s work. And yet, it was also sobered […]
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Dec
Dec
The online version of the Inquirer reported this today: The Commission on Elections has unseated Sto. Tomas Mayor Renato Federico over a technicality but was still unclear as to what this was. To clarify: On December 21, 2011, the Commission en banc promulgated the decision in SPC No. 10-082 [In Re: Petition to Annul the Proclamation […]
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Dec
Dec
Government officials typically can’t resist the urge – at every opportunity – to ask the media to “help them” with their agenda. When they see a write-up they disagree with, they also can’t help but rail about how the media is a monstrous enemy. When that happens in my institution, I try to pretend I’m […]
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Dec
Dec
This is my article in the 21 December 2011 edition of the Business Mirror. FOUR days before Christmas, I thought it might be forgivable to once again depart from the conventional ways of column and wander down the meandering paths that storytellers love the most. I do not so idly either. Fairy tales and fables, […]
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Dec
Dec
If were to graph the frequency of questions received by my office from the general public, “Where’s my ID” would spike like the Burj al Khalifa if it were plonked down in the middle of the desert. Watch Ghost Protocol if you don’t get what I mean. In response to that overwhelming desire of the […]