President Duterte announced on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, that the government will be offering free rides on MRT3 from March 28 up to April 30 after he inaugurated the rehabilitation works done on the major rail system.
The rail system traversing EDSA now runs at 60 kilometers per hour (kph), faste
ComelecCommissioner George Erwin Garcia (Screengrab from Comelec Facebook live video) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday said it will form a task force that will investigate allegations of vote-buying. "The Commission will be creating a Task Force that will handle reports, complaints. Definitely, the Comelec can motu proprio (on its own) investigate. The Comelec can always direct its field personnel to submit a report to us. We will have a task force for us to immediately take action," Commissioner George Erwin Garcia said in a press conference at the conclusion of the end-to-end demonstration of the Election Day Automated Election System (AES) at the Diamond Hotel in Manila. Garcia, however, reminded the people to be very careful in making reports of vote-buying. "As you know, politicians can always invoke the Penera doctrine. Technically it's not yet the start campaign period for local candidates. We will not hesitate to prosecute those who m
(Screengrab from Comelec Facebook live video) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is prepared to resolve technical problems that may arise during the May 9 elections, an official said on Tuesday. "We have passed our contingency resolution as early as January. So, we already included that in the training for our electoral boards in the event this happens, we have this Comelec Election Monitoring Action Center, we have our National Technical Support. So in the event there are technical issues we also have our technical support staff, they are trained to troubleshoot the system, our VCM (vote counting machines)," said Commissioner Marlon Casquejo in a press briefing on the sidelines of the end-to-end demonstration of the Election Day Automated Election System (AES) at the Diamond Hotel in Manila. Casquejo said these measures include the deployment of contingency VCMs in case problems in the AES "cannot be resolved". He added that the end-to-end Election Day