BUDGET DELIBERATIONS. Senators Sherwin Gatchalian, Sonny Angara, and Miguel Zubiri (2nd, 3rd and 5th from left, standing) are joined by Senate secretariat officials after the end of plenary debates on the proposed 2022 national budget on Nov. 23, 2021. Angara and Zubiri are seeking reelection while Angara is staying for another three years. (Photo courtesy of Senate PRIB) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is likely to proclaim the winners of the senatorial and party-list race a week after the May 9 polls. Commissioner George Garcia said in a television interview Monday that the canvassing of results of the 12 winning senators and a still undetermined number of party-list groups may end by May 15. "We can already proclaim the senators or party-list winners at the latest May 16," he said. The Comelec en banc will sit as the National Board of Canvassers. Garcia is certain though that the winners in the local elections will be known hours after the voting precincts h
“Never forget… who killed your race,” Manila Mayor and Presidential aspirant Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso (pic) said before thousands of supporters here on Sunday, as he reminded them of their dark past under the 21-year rule of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, father of former Senator Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, the candidate who is leading the surveys in the race for the Presidency in May
SHARIFF KABUNSUAN FESTIVAL. The Ministry of Trade, Investment, and Tourism - BARMM releases the schedule for the Shariff Kabunsuan Festival on Thursday (Dec. 9, 2021). The highlight of the festival, which will run from Dec. 13 to 20, 2021, is the reenactment of the arrival of Islam in this southern part of the Philippines through the Rio Grande de Mindanao River, the largest waterway in Central Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of MTIT-BARMM) COTABATO CITY - After two years of hiatus, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), through its Ministry of Trade, Investment, and Tourism (MTIT), will once again mark the arrival of Islam in mainland Mindanao. In a statement Thursday, the MTIT said the activities for the annual Shariff Kabunsuan Festival will run from December 15 to December 20. It will be a series of events to be highlighted by the "Guinakit" fluvial parade or the reenactment of the arrival of the Missionary from Johore, Shariff Mohammad Kabunsuan, via the